HI BOOMERS, I have,and am running,a 4 or so year old Dell XPs 400 PC. 17 inch monitor flat screen with a Pentium Processer [R]4 cpu 3.2o ghz 2.00gb of ram. and a new much higher faster graphics card just upgraded.'QUESTION'?is the ''''above''' suitable,? for,say todays and a bit into tomorrows all around gameing . WILLIE' 'P.S. also a 2048, not the 512' ?

Do you know which faster video card you have?

the resolution upgraded pcie 4670 1h ddr upgraded mem 2x512. ati radeon tm 4600 series 2.00 gb dram video card upgrade- mem upgrade 1 gig.'sorry but his, the writing was not to clear hope you can come up with answer useing these figures total $300

So it's ***this one*** with 2 GB of system RAM and an ATI HD 4670 video card. It should be fine as long as the power supply can support the video card.

Yes JENNY' again,you are right, that is mine,'might I ask,? where should I look for the POWER SUPPLY information you mention.on this Dell 400 XPS I bought IT BRAND NEW about 4 or 5 years ago , just thought it might improve the over all quality of the P.C.

You should really look into getting a faster cpu the gfxcard is gonna be too powerfull depending how much you wanna invest a intel i5 is pretty cheap but offcourse you will need new motherboard/ram also can get expensive hehe.

But it also depends what kinda games your after if only adventure games you dont need a heavy pc, but else most of todays games require a dualcore cpu atleast for minimum specs.

It says Willie's power supply is 375 watts and at Newegg says minimum of 400 watts for the 4670s which had the spec listed. I found a few low profile 4650s that say minimum 300 watts.

Well then,I guess it's good enough for TODAYS, adventuring ?,for now. And am a bit to old to worry about tomorrow. Thanks again to all for your kind advice and assistane. 'WILLIE'

Willie,
I have a Dell computer older than yours and it works fine for most adventure games. The processor speed is the same. There have only been a couple of games where it was too sluggish -- and those were because of the older video card. 375 Watts is not far from 400, and Dell power supplies are said to be good quality, so you should be OK with a video card that requires 400 Watts.

HI Miss JENNY'and'THANKS',Its time now to relax once again. well to me,'Nothing'quite like getting GOOD,news,like now. around this time in life.and I bet many'SOMEONES',out there, wish that they had chosen some one like you.MISS FIXET' P.S.do you remember that old song,? 'SWEET JENNY LEE SHE CAME FROM '''''''TENNESEE''''' allmost fits you,?? .again THANKS ,'MISS FIXIT' and all the 'BOOMER ELVES'..

Assuming,yours, mine, anyones P.C.is o.k. and generally around,capable,plus adequate, then what next, is most, likely to slow the overall preformance down if at all. ? WHAT CAN I DO, , DELETE,remove junk,etc, any, suggestions. for honeing the machine.Willie

Mainly just make sure nothing you never use (and your computer never uses) is running in the background. For example if you have Real Player installed, it doesn't have to automatically start itself up every time you boot the computer.

Make sure you don't fill up all your hard space with temporary files -- run Disc Cleanup to delete them.
http://www.theeldergeek.com/disk_cleanup_utility.htm