[Davis0079]

Please Help, I got this computer for free from a corp. office and it has an intel d845gvsr board with a celoron 2.4 ghz processor. The only problem is it has only 512 ram. How do I tell what my processor MHZ are because all the sticks I've seen ask if I need DDR333, DDR266, or DDR200 mhz sdram dimms sticks. I'm really not very good with hardware, so I have no Idea what the hell I'm doing. But with the info one can get on the net I have made it this far. I think this computer can work for me since it was free but 512 ram does not rum IL-2 very well (I get like 20fps). Another downfall is this motherboard only has pci slots for my vid card. Right now I got a cheap ati card, but I want to get a nividio card. What is the best old nividio card available for a pci slot (and please dont tell me to upgrade to a pci-e, I cant afford to set up a new motherboard or get a new computer right now).

[emken67]

Hi Davis,

I'm pretty sure that you can use higher spec ram with no ill effects, so depending on price, go for the highest rated. However, I do have concerns if you only have a PCI slot for a video card, as you'll find these difficult to track down as the previous standard to PCI-E was AGP. It is most likely that the PC was accurately specced to an office environment and will sadly always be a bit of a porker for games.

EmKen

[Paulo Hirth]

IL-2 with mods have more 3D details, is much more "Heavy", i believe this computer cant run IL-2 in perfect mode with HD maps and smoke effects, dont spend money with this computer, save money and go to www.tomshardware.com and see best processor for money, best videocard for money...
Good luck

[RRuger]

I'm thinking that all of your "PCI slots" ie more than one are for like flash drives or something (help guys) if it's got an AGP card now then that's what it is. It doesn't matter if you want to have PCIe it won't work because your MoBo is not equiped for PCIe.

As far as your RAM goes just shut your computer down and follow all steps when touching the guts of your computer, ground your static charge by touching a metal plumbing part or something, especally if you have carpets!

So pull a stick of RAM and read what it says on the stick it's self. You should also read up on your MoBo to make sure that the RAM you get is compatible with it or you're throwing your money away...

BTW, if you got to crutial.com you can probably look up your MoBo there and it will tell you what works and what won't.

[Davis0079]

Thz for all the info guys, I'm to the point that upgrading my ram is the last chance I have to make this some what of a gaming pc. And btw I dont have an AGP slot so pci is all I have to work with. I'm hoping since its a 2.4 ghz processor that with a ram increase mabey I can get some more quality out of IL-2. I'm not hoping to run on perfect, Just normal or high with 60fps will make me wet my pants.

[madcat]

Please Help, I got this computer for free from a corp. office and it has an intel d845gvsr board with a celoron 2.4 ghz processor. The only problem is it has only 512 ram. How do I tell what my processor MHZ are because all the sticks I've seen ask if I need DDR333, DDR266, or DDR200 mhz sdram dimms sticks. I'm really not very good with hardware, so I have no Idea what the hell I'm doing. But with the info one can get on the net I have made it this far.

Found specification on your mother board; http://support.intel.com/support/mother ... /D845GVSR/

What I think you have seen and what is says is it can take the following Memory speeds 333, 266 and 200 MHz DDR SDRAM.

The higher the number the faster the ram, but your mother board can't take any thing higher then 333 MHz. (DDR-333 = Data transfers per second; 333 Million)

It also say's that there are two ram slots and the max it can take is 2Gb of ram, so your looking for some thing like 2x 1GB DDR 333MHz/PC2700 Memory.

Give you an idea; Crucial 1GB DDR 333MHz/PC2700 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL2.5

I think this computer can work for me since it was free but 512 ram does not rum IL-2 very well (I get like 20fps). Another downfall is this motherboard only has pci slots for my vid card. Right now I got a cheap ati card, but I want to get a nividio card. What is the best old nividio card available for a pci slot (and please dont tell me to upgrade to a pci-e, I cant afford to set up a new motherboard or get a new computer right now).

As for the Graphics card the highest NVIDIA PCI (Not PCI-E) Graphics card I can find is a GeForce 6200. That should run IL-2 in Excellent mode, but not shore about Perfect mode! and MOD's would be a NO...

Well you could install the MOD ACTIVATOR and have all planes flyable, but no graphic or sound MODs

Hope that helps

[Davis0079]

You guys are the best, I just cant say enough good things about AAA and all the support ya'll have given me. In a week or two I sould have my new sticks installed and hopefully a decent nivida card so hope fully I can get the performance the game was meant to have. Right now I'm running alot of sound and graphics mods so hopfully with these upgrades I can experince them all on better then low setting (lol). ONCE AGAIN THANK ALL OF YOU.

[Davis0079]

Well, now that its all said and done, I'm running on perfect mode with 60-80 fps in QMB and 30-50 in most campains. Thats one hell of an upgrade when two weeks ago I couldnt get above 20 fps is anything. For the record I've done three things. 1: I did like ya'll said and ordered a Nvidio 8400 for my cheap ass pci slot($60). 2: I've upgraded with two 1gig ram sticks from crutial($70). 3: And this is the good one, I picked up a 3.2Ghz pentium4 w/ 800mhz and 1 mb cache for $30. The only problem is my board wont take it. So I traded that for a 2.8Ghz p4 w/533mhz bus and 512 cache. So for $160 my computer got a rebuild and now I'm happy with it. Real happy since it was given to me for free. btw, this was my first processor change and it was the easiest thing I've ever done.