[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