These good specs for playing games?

[RabXL]

Windows XP Home Edition
512 MB DDR Ram
320Gb HDD Hard drive (160x 2)
16x DVD, 4x DVD/RW
Ge Force FX 5200 256Mb Hard Drive
Advent 3200+ Amd Athlon 64

Are those good specs, for running games like Farcry, Microsoft Flight Sim. I just bought this damm thing for £1400 I hope its good. lol

[Flyfsh]

That should play any game you want.

Have fun & kill lots of bad guys

[Moreno]

That graphicscard (FX5200) is really not steered towards HighEnd gaming, it should be able to run the newest games resonable framerates at low to mid resolution, but its not impressive!

If you are builing the PC yourself I would recommend losing one of the HDs and use that money for a midrange graphicscard e.g. Nvidia 5900XT or even better a Radeon 9800Pro (i personnaly recommend HIS Excalibur IceQ )

[arporter]

Originally posted by Moreno
That graphicscard (FX5200) is really not steered towards HighEnd gaming, it should be able to run the newest games resonable framerates at low to mid resolution, but its not impressive!

If you are builing the PC yourself I would recommend losing one of the HDs and use that money for a midrange graphicscard e.g. Nvidia 5900XT or even better a Radeon 9800Pro (i personnaly recommend HIS Excalibur IceQ )

I agree. Looking at the doom 3 benchmarks you will need a better card for the new generation of games.

Radeon 9800 Pro have become "afordable" so I got one last week and been very impressed.

[Adham]

My spec:-
Xp pro edition (SP2) SP2 IS VERY ANNOYING!!!!
1GB PC3200 RAM
80GB harddrive
GeForce Nvidia 5600 tornado
Amd Athlon 2400 so its bout a 2GHz
DVD Rom - for FarCry

thats what i use to play doom3 and far cry and it runs really nice, i do wanna get a 9800pro though so if i was you i would scrap the 5200 geforce and spend a bit more to get a 9800 you will save in the long run.