Windows 7: Need advice on friend's pc

My friend has got a PC that's considerably outdated, he wants to know what games he can play.



His config is:

P4 (2.4 Ghz)
512 DDR RAM
INTEL ORIGINAL 864G MoBo
SYNCMASTER MONITOR (15")

OS: Win 7 Ultimate (x86 version)
Any advice is really, really welcome !

Thanks

Is this a trick question?
I'm sure you have enough knowledge to tell him/her the truth.
What games are you talking about? Online multiplayer?
I don't think so with 512Meg of Ram with a P4 processor.
Give him.her some friendly advice and upgrade to the 21st century.
Good luck.

Minesweeper, Solitaire, Age of Empires.

I ran Age of Empires 2 on a Win98 machine with maybe 128MB RAM and a 4GB hard drive.

I was playing wow on a p4 2.4 with 512m ram and an 512 video card. if it is possible to get a video card put in it. This is doable. Note the game ran at 15 fps and at lowest settings. but it ran.... also, Minesweeper rocks.

If wanting to upgrade, I suggest looking at www.tigerdirect.com there are alot of mobo/chip combo's that are inexpensive. upgrading through this setup is a good start. This would be a low budget way of upgrading. (you will need new ram though to match the system and if it is old IDE hard drive, make sure it has a port for the IDE hard drive).

Edit: Weigh your options though when upgrading, it might be wise to save up and get a premade system if you are not familiar with building comps. upgrading to what you want for gaming can run you +$500 easily. buying a decent laptop that can play some games is about the same price, but building the comp will cost less than buying a new comp with comparible hardware.

LOL , no I know what games he can't play, I'm seriously at a loss to suggest what he can play !

I think he wants to play games like Max Payne/GTA Vice City/NFS types of games. I was so not into games when these games/his mobo were at their peak!

They can always check first - Can You Run It

Nothing. What is your WEI score? 1 or 2?

If your friend wants to play any games at all, he should move immediately back to XP....as that would be his only chance.

And back in the day, when I had a P4, I had 2GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon X800-XT PCI-Express card with 256MB of RAM and it ran games like Half Life 2, Battlefield 1942, and such without any trouble.

But I recently gave that machine away to a coworker who was in need for a computer because it was simply too slow to even fool around with....and forget about running Windows 7 and current games on it.

I gave him NOLF to play! And advised him to upgrade to at least an entry level modern mobo with at least a gpu inbuilt.