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Need advice on upgrading computer for gaming.......

Asked by codecontra in Miscellaneous Hardware, Computer Memory (RAM), Computer Sound Cards

Tags: mpv3c2, drivers, epox

Hi all.  I bought a used computer for my son to do his gaming on.  The specs are as follows:

-     AMD K6-2/500Mhz Processor
-     320mb RAM
-     Epox MPV3C2 motherboard
-     20 MB Maxtor  HD
-     16 bit Soundblaster PCI sound card
-     10mbs Ethernet Card
-     Diamond Stealth Extreme 32mb AGP Video Card

Most of his games ran fine except for his favorite one, Diablo 2 LOD.  It just seems to run very sluggish.  So I went and upgraded the video card to the following:

NVIDIA GeFORCE2 MX / 400 64MB 4X AGP.  I bought it from pcafterhours.com for $59.00.  The box says it is made by CHAINTECH.  Not sure if this is a good one, but the price was right.  

Anyway, I installed it and downloaded the newest detonator drivers from NVidia.  Guess what?  Still pretty slow.  Maybe a little bit of an increase, but not what was expected.  I have a Dell PIII 650 Mhz with a 32 Meg Nvidia TNT 2 M64 card and Diablo 2 LOD flies on my system....way faster then on his computer.

So what else can I do?  Some people have told me the processor is the problem.  If so, can I upgrade and what to?  What will my motherboard support?  I guess I could upgrade the processor and the motherboard if necessary, but I can't afford a whole new computer for him at this point.

Thanks for any advice!!!!!!!!!  
 
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