ogreslayer

Great Work, Keep it up!!!!!, i will now continue to drool; Thank You

I'd go with an Athlon 64 if you aren't doing anykind of high-end photo or video manipulation. Gaming right now is not the Pentium 4's bright spot and only the new 65nm chips will avoid making your computer the most efficent space heater that money could buy. 1GB of ram under WinXP should be your minimum. and your graphics card is better than what I'm using (nvidia 5900xt) and while the CPU isn't as good as mine (Athlon 64 3200+) it is not crap either. I run all the detail settings on medium but a 1280x1024 If you are gonna upgrade and plan to run everything on high... go with: Intel Pentium D 930 (3.0ghz Dual-Core processor) or AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Single-Core) ~$200USD (Sim City 4 is not really optimized for 2+ cores so its not a big deal just depends on if you wanna play favorites) 2GB of ram should be ~200USD also (you will want DDR2-800 for the Pentium D or DDR-400 with the Athlon 3500+) You will need a new graphics card and honestly if you are worried about outputing to a TV I'd go with the newer technology and get a Radeon x1800gto or a x1800xt... although I perfer nVidia i will not argue against ATIs superior multimedia tech and slightly better image quality, but if you are gonna just use a standard computer monitor save your self the overall driver hassle and get an nVidia card (the x1800s should be around 230-260 and a nVidia 7900gt should be between 280-320). Both cards will come with a dongle to change at least one of the outputs for a VGA connection. Now whether you build it your self or get the system from a store you should look to have those processors at a minimum and that much ram should be more than enough... the graphics cards are alittle extravagant but will last a long time compared to the already ancient x800series You should also check your bios; XP not seeing the ram is usually a problem with either the board or the ram itself... switch positions of the sticks and see if you only get 512MB, 1GB, or 1.5GB You should also see about running the game in higher resolutions 800x600 is tame and the overall look at 1024x768 and especially 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 will please you. While actually not being terribly hard for the x1xxxseries cards to run