[cpfre]

I have an old computer genuine intel family 6, model 5 with 320.0mb of ram and my tower is an x86 based pc and i dont have a graphics card or vidio card i dont think so.I cant play games and i realy want a fast gaming pc but not to expensive so what should i do could i take the parts out of my crap computer and install new things or should i just by a new pc if so which one should i buy it cant to to expensive but i want to play realy fast games on it so please help me ....................thanks alot .

[oblivious_maximus]

Genuine Intel family 6 etc doesn't mean much to me, is that a P3 or p4? what frequency(mhz/ghz) does it run at?

A fast gaming PC will need at least 512mb of RAM, preferably 1gb. A geforce 6800 (vanilla, no GT or Ultra) is probably the best video card option right now for price/performance. I wouldn't consider anything less, save for a 9800pro if you can find a nice deal on one (but that card is getting old and is probably only worth considering because of low price). If you're willing to spend $300-$500 on the video card you could look at geforce 6800GTs or Ultras, or Radeon x800s or x850s.

If you've got at least a 2.4ghz P4, I'd say keep that and build from there, but I don't really pay attention to Intel products so I'm not going to say anything else about that.

[msgwtco]

he's got an intel celeron. probaly a p2 based celeron also.

[oblivious_maximus]

in that case: cpfre, there's no point adding stuff to your current computer. You're going to want to grab a whole new one to play games on.

I'd look at an Athlon64 with the ram and video cards I mentioned earlier. Think about getting an nforce4-SLI motherboard. That way you can buy a decent video card that isn't too costly now, and down the road you can grab another to almost double 3d performance.