Re: help improve performance

From: Paul Smith (Paul_at_nospam.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:00:21 -0000

"bassissexy" <bassissexy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:58CD71F9-38AA-46B9-BDD8-3CD5A7454BBF@microsoft.com...
> my computers a dell 4600, i have 256MB of RAM currently and an Intel
> graphics
> card. it was what orriginally came with my computer. it just barely meets
> the
> system requirements for the games, but so does the amount of RAM i have.

I think the graphics card would give the best boost for games. The Intel
graphics chips are utterly useless for gaming.

But doubling your RAM would give the whole system a nice increase and is
really something that needs to be done too. 

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