Calling all computer people!

[naturallypixie]

Can somebody tell me if this system will be happy for online gaming? Specifically, I am wondering about the video card; it was the best upgrade I could get with this model. I think I have chosen properly, but since I am no whiz in this area, I feel the need to defer.


My System Details
PROCESSOR AMD ATHLON™ 5800 (3.0GHz, 1MB)
MEMORY 4GB DDR2 Non-ECC SDRAM,800MHz, (4 DIMM) e
HARD DRIVE 80GB SATA, 10K RPM 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive 3.5 inch, with Data Burst Cache™
OPTICAL DRIVE 16X DVD+/-RW SATA, Roxio Creator, CyberlinkPower DVD™
VIDEO CARD 256MB nVidia GeForce 9300 GE (Dual DVI/ VGA /1 TV-out), full height
MONITOR Dell 19 inch™ E1909W Widescreen Flat Panel
ENERGY SMART Dell Energy Smart Enable
FILE SYSTEM NTFS File System for all Operating Systems
SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION Resource CD and DVD contains Diagnostics and Driver for Dell OptiPlex System

Comments

[sbrungardt.livejournal.com]

Definitely go with a hard disk larger than 80GB. For a laptop that will be used for gaming, I recommend nothing short of 160GB, 250GB if you can swing it.

The video card is really important. That video card will be able to handle DDO, but there's also a difference between being able to just run a game, and being able to have the game "run well", so to speak. If you can manage it, I highly recommend bumping that video card up to a 512MB video card.

Is this planned to be a desktop computer or a laptop? If it's desktop, you can always upgrade the hardware later as you need to; if it's a laptop, it's well worth the initial investment to make it better, since it's nigh impossible to upgrade a lot of laptop hardware once you bought it.