StuntGames Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 (edited) Alright this is all for my friend. He got his family's old computer put in his room and he wants to play final fantasy xi on it. The only problem is that the computer doesnt meet the min. requirements. Its a pretty old DELL pc, runnin at 400MHz with 512 mb ram 2 20 gig hd's and windows XP. Min. Requirements for FFXi is : Intel® Pentium®III 800Mhz or faster processor Memory: 128 MB RAM Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce™ series graphics processing unit with 32MB or ATI® RADEON™ 9000 series graphics card I recommended an upgrade of the processor and the video card. The cheapest processor on newegg was an AMD Duron 1.8GHz. And I also recommended a cheap video card like a fx5200. He wants to get the pc to play the game for as cheap as possible, he doesnt care if its lowest settings, just as long as he can play it. The question is: Can his motherboard handle these upgrades? I had him run everest and HERE is the screen. If its unable to handle it, can any of you recommend a cheap motherboard that can handle the upgrades? Edited November 11, 2005 by crazydude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forfit Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Ummm...don't you need an Intel processor to put on an intel based motherboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA3Freak-2001 Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Yeah firstly you can't put a AMD CPU into a Intel based Motherboard so that's already a no-go, also that motherboard is limited to PCI Video Cards becuase of its lack of an AGP slot. The best PCI card you can get would be something like a Radeon 9250 like this one, here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forfit Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 If he wants to stick with an AMD duron and a video card that is AGP, then you can get a motherboard Kinda like this one which supports all of those features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA3Freak-2001 Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Well I think he wants a quick and cheap way to upgrade and usually a motherboard swap means replacing other components such as RAM and also the problems of it being a Dell where often won't let you do major changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Well I think he wants a quick and cheap way to upgrade and usually a motherboard swap means replacing other components such as RAM and also the problems of it being a Dell where often won't let you do major changes. He's right. Most pre-build systems wouldn't let you do major upgrades like a new mobo. 2 reasons I can think of but connected. Most of the time when you change mobos you have to reinstall the OS The recovery CD will look at the hardware to make sure it matches and if it don't it tells you it can't to the install. Plus you have to remember the recovery CD works with the BIOS, in some cases, and when you replace the mobo with a street board it don't come with no Dell/HP/so on branded BIOS...it comes with the mobo maker's BIOS. Tell your friend to save his money and buy a new system or better still build one (or have it built for him). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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