Posts by electrictinker6

Hey there,
hopefully I’m hitting the right sub here.
Does anyone actually know why those Dietpharma effervescent magnesium tablets are nearly seven times the price of the store brands you'd grab at Walmart or CVS? For instance, looking at the Dietpharma 375mg version, a 20-pack runs me $22, while the same thing at Walmart is just $7 and over at CVS it's $3.25. Is there a massive gap in quality there, or is it just a crazy markup?

Jeffrey Chavez6 said:Honestly, none of them. No matter what you throw at it, that poor little processor is going to be your absolute bottleneck because Grand Theft Auto IV is notoriously heavy on the CPU. In theory, you might be able to limp along on minimum settings at a tiny 800x600 resolution—I've seen people pull it off on YouTube—but man, it just isn't worth the headache.

From what I can tell, your motherboard supports PCI-E cards, so maybe hunt down an old 7600GT, 8600GT, or even an X1650/2600 if you want to spend less than $33. Beyond that, your CPU is just too weak to handle anything else.

So now I'm looking at this info I grabbed from the web and realizing it's kind of off; my system properties actually show
Intel (R)
Pentium (R) 4 CPU 3.00 GHz
2.99 GHz, 1.99 GB of RAM. Does that change things, or am I still totally out of luck? :/

Hey there. I've got this rig sitting here right now.

HP Compaq business desktop dx6120
Model number: PW288ES
That classic HP look (check the pic)

CPU
procesor Intel ® Pentium ® 4 Processor 520 HT Technology
HT Technology
Speed: 2.80 GHz
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
L2 Cache: 1 MB

Motherboard:
Intel ® 915 G express

Memory:
256 MB
PC2-3200 / DDR2

Hard drive:
80 GB S-ATA 7200 rpm
Graphics card
Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900
Memory: 128 MB
Type: SD RAM
GPU Intel
Memory speed: 333 MHz

Sound card:
Integrated Intel audio with Premier Internal Speaker

Network card:
Integrated Broadcom gigabit
software:
OS: Microsoft XP Professional

So far, I've bumped it up to 2 GB of RAM and swapped in a 160 GB hard drive. I'm wondering what kind of graphics card I should look for—something I could actually drop into this thing—that would let me run something like GTA IV without it being a total disaster? Ideally, I don't want to spend a fortune on it either.
Thanks.