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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 06:44 PM
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Looking to get a SimCity game or something but dont know if my PC is good enough to run it

Is there anyway i can check the Spec of my PC?If you know what i mean?

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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 06:46 PM
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Goto 'run' in start menu and type: dxdiag
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 06:48 PM
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or maybe easyier, right click "my computer" icon on your desktop then go down to properties then i box should pop up, the basic spec of your pc can be found on there aswell
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 06:54 PM
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Nice one,cheers

This is what i have:

AMD Athlon
XP2200+
1.79Ghz
224MBof RAM

This is what i need:

Windows 98/'2000/ME/XP
PIII 500MHz or equivalent
128MB RAM
16MB DirectX compatible video card
1GB hard drive space

Will it run? Im thinking no
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 06:56 PM
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Yeah that will run fine
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 06:58 PM
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more than enough mate, good spec just get some more RAM
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 06:58 PM
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Cool,thanks for your help!
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 07:05 PM
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16mb gfx card needed?

what gfx card u got?
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Stu.H

what gfx card u got?
Ummmm...?
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 07:32 PM
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you need this will show you all you need to know.

http://www.sisoftware.net/index.html...me&langx=en&a=
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Old Jun 23, 2005 | 08:02 PM
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on that spec mate i wouldnt worry, i imagine its got more than enough of everything, can almost say that with 100% confidence (was it bought as a package?)
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