Is Your Dell Desktop PC Mismatched for Gaming?

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I got this desktop PC from Dell about 4 years ago, and here are the stats:

1 GB RAM (Used to be 256MB)
2.33 Gig Pentium 4 (Probably the best at that time)
NVidia GeForce 420MX (The worst GC ever)


Is my comp pretty mismatched, or is it ok?

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It will work perfect as long as you aren't doing some insane excel work while trying to play Counter Strike Source on the other screen.
 
russ_watters said:
Required computing power always depends on what you want to do.

How about playing Supereme Commander?

Also, I'm thinking of building a computer for myself, but I'm going to use at least 10-12 processors (parallel processing) for gaming, and I am 13 right now. Should I go ahead with it?

The processors are going to be CPUs of computers from 2001, which I may buy from my school.
 
MadScientist 1000 said:
How about playing Supereme Commander?

Also, I'm thinking of building a computer for myself, but I'm going to use at least 10-12 processors (parallel processing) for gaming, and I am 13 right now. Should I go ahead with it?

The processors are going to be CPUs of computers from 2001, which I may buy from my school.

Wow, you really are a mad scientist. I don't mean to crush your hopes or anything, but consider the following:

-Parallel processing only gives you more threads so you can run many processes simultaneously, it doesn't actually make the computing go faster.
-Even if it does make your game run faster, paralleling 10-12 processors...you probably won't find a motherboard that will support that configuration on the current market.
-GPU is often the bottleneck of demanding games, not CPU.
-Softwares won't support it anyway.

sorry kid :) good try