[Blink]

So, as all you PC board people know, I never come in here. xD

Well I just got a new tower PC, one that can, *gasp* game! First PC capable of such things that I've had in a long while. And I need to catch up on the last 8-10 years of gaming! I left off with the second Age of Empires game really.

So, I want to keep things cheap, because I just spent everything I had to build this thing. X_x But so far, I'm looking at Unreal Tournament 2004, Half Life 2, StarCraft, Diablo 2, and the Longest Journey. No Oblivion or F.E.A.R. quite yet, maybe when they get price drops. I'm not into PC gaming really, but I want to see if I WILL be. ;)

Oh, and my specs are an AMD 2.2Ghz Processor, two 512mb RAM cards, a motherboard with nVidia's nForce on it, and a Radeon 256mb 128bit (DDR3) video card. For more details, you can see them individually...

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813186037
Graphics Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814153031
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820145440
Processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16819103603

Any suggestions are highly appreciated!

[Golden Djinn13]

If I were you, I would definitely try to upgrade it for more RAM. Seeing as your gonna be using it for games, you should try and get at least 1 gig, or so. Other than that, it seems good for gaming to me. ;)

[Eugine]

Company of Heroes, AoE3, HP: Goblet of Fire, World of Warcraft.

Try C&C3 and tell me how it is ^___^

[Someone Else]

HP: Goblet of Fire, Eugine? O.o That game was terrible and I didn't even play it!

Et pout vous, Blink... GD13's right; I think you should get more RAM for a gaming rig, if you want to play recent games.

I doubt Oblivion will be getting price drops soon, but do you what you can to get it anyway! Buy Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles along with it and you'll be set with a game that could very well occupy you for 200 hours (and make you cringe at the thought that you just shelled out a good $80 for one game). And then when you get a little bored, get some of the most popular community-made mods and you have a fresh new game again. Oblivion is also the only game I know where cheating is a good way to entertain yourself. Spawning Bandits and Marauders and making them fight each other is awesome, whilst you watch and occasionally lob a fireball at them. (ragdoll physics) You should also get it because I don't have anyone else to talk to here about OB.

Other than that, Supreme Commander is supposed to be awesome, but you might want to wait until you upgrade to a dual core processor for it.

You want cheap, right? How about Civ IV? It's addicting and it isn't too demanding for PCs.

[Blink]

AoE3 and Civ IV sound like my cup of tea.

Maybe I need to spell it out in NUMBERS for you guys. 2x512mb. TWO. 2x512 > 1000. I have MORE than a gig of RAM. xD Barely, but still. I may eventually pick up another 512, and have THREE. But I need to get a sound card first. >_>

So yes, TWO 512s. A little over a gig. I should be able to run anything out there right now on the "required" specs.

And C&C sounds good, but it's still gonna be pricey. And yes, that means no Oblivion. And no Wow! xD I have a life, geeze...

[PDM]

Counter Strike 1.6, Condition Zero, world of warcraft, guild wars, Elders Scrolls IV: Oblivion

[Lemontime]

Half Life 2, Garrys mod, Counter-strike source, Guild Wars, Starcraft...

http://www.xfire.com...file/lemontime/

Just go there and get all the games on my list (Except WoW, WoW sucked :S)

[FlamingDuck]

Sim Golf. I'm serious, that is like my favorite game ever. Or one of the Civilizations. I have III, and it's pretty fun.

[Golden Djinn13]

I highly recommend Civ 4, but the Warlords expansion is a waste of time and money. It adds only a couple new things that are passable. As for AoE 3, Its good but gets boring fast. If you like RTS games, get Medieval 2: Total War.

Btw, I didnt see the "two" next to 512. ;)

[Toasty]

I'd upgrade to 2 gig's of RAM as soon as you can after you get your sound card. And I'd like to know why your motherboard only has one 16X PCI Express slot. o_0 Because my PC is OLD (got it around the year 2000) and it has 5 or 6. But we didn't put it together ourselves. *coughDellcough*

Anyway, I don't do PC gameing much myself, but even though NFS: Porsche Unleashed is REALLY old, it still has great graphics by even todays standards, is fun, and has a lot to do in it. Obviously, it revolves around Porches, but you can fine tune each car to such a degree, it's like reality. I'm sure there are better racing games out there, but not for about $15 or less. :)

[Ironsight]

Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
awsome game, its an RTS like Starcraft, but everythings in 3D and it plays almost like Axis & Allies. cant remember the reqs for it, but its an awsome game. the only problem is you need all three games to play as every race on the multiplayer

[Golden Djinn13]

Dawn of War is a good game, but it gets repetitive after a while. I didn't get a chance to play it through the whole campaign though.

[PDM]

Just bought a PC, throw some games on that *****!

[Split Infinity]

Right, that makes you both on the same square.