Is this a good setup for gaming?

MSI K8N Neo3 H nForce 4-4x Socket 754 ATX Motherboard Features:


NVIDIA nForce 4-4x chipset


Socket 754


ATX form factor


Supports up to 2 GB DDR SDRAM (non-ECC)


Supports 333/400 DDR SRAM


Integrated AC97 audio controller with standard AC97 Codec


Direct Sound and Sound Blaster compatible


Marvell PHY 88E1111 Gigabit Ethernet chip


Plug and Play, Desktop Management Interface BIOS


Onboard IDE/SATA





Power Supply :


450-watt power





ATi Radeon X700 512MB DDR PCI Express Video Card w/TV-Out





AMD Sempron 3300+ 128KB Socket 754 CPU





Maxtor 120GB UDMA/133 5400RPM 2MB IDE HDD





C-Media CMI8738 4-Channel PCI Sound Card





and 2gb ram

Is this a good setup for gaming?
Pretty low spec. The PSU is probably substandard as you haven't specified a make. 2GB RAM is the minimum these days, so thats OK, but you're only using DDR I - go for a motherboard that supports DDR II instead.





The Sempron processor isn't exactly great. Go with a proper X2 or Cure 2 Duo instead.





A 5400 RPM drive is super slow, and maxtor drives aren't known for their reliability.





The ATi X700 is a budget card. No good for high-end gaming. Go for a GeForce 6800 ot Radeon x1950.





The gigabit NIC is OK.
Reply:It's not exactly great setup. You lack a good video card, for the most part. Semprons aren't the fastest processors out there but for gaming it's ok since games do not utilize cache much.





The hard drive is also a bit slow. 5400RPM hard drives are about 30% slower than 7200RPM, which is the standard these days.





You should be ok with low/mid settings for most games.
Reply:If you're going to be playing the latest and greatest, realistically it won't run that great. It's a lower end processor. The Harddrive is slow, and your RAM and Video Cards are not very great either.





Don't get me wrong the computer will run well if you run World of Warcraft on it or some of the games out today. But if you're doing hardcore, spec tweaked, high settings gaming. Than no the computer isn't good for something like that.





Overall if you're not some ultra gamer who has to have the latest and greatest, than you probably won't notice much of anything until you start playing some of the best games that come out in the future.





But if you're not that kind of gamer and you just like to buy some games here or there right now. It'll be fine.
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