Philco

You need decent high B/W ram and a decent processor to get any notable performance boost, for instance my own machine i have.

3.0Ghz Quad Core Extreme
4GB Ram (Minus 800MB) Due to having the Nividia 8800 GTX GFX card, DDR3 high b/w memory all built on an Asus striker extreme mobo.

I can play over 60 leagues in 30 odd nations with a huge db and it still flys. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Dude... How the heck did you get such a beast?
Honestly, must have cost you several thousands of pounds...

retired_charytine

Same as. :thup:

Much better game also imo.

retired_gotag8r

You need decent high B/W ram and a decent processor to get any notable performance boost, for instance my own machine i have.

3.0Ghz Quad Core Extreme
4GB Ram (Minus 800MB) Due to having the Nividia 8800 GTX GFX card, DDR3 high b/w memory all built on an Asus striker extreme mobo.

I can play over 60 leagues in 30 odd nations with a huge db and it still flys. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Dude... How the heck did you get such a beast?
Honestly, must have cost you several thousands of pounds... </BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah man cost me an arm and a leg but its sure as hell worth it, all i need is another GFX card for Sli then ill be good lol.

retired_vixen496

The thing is m8 no offense but I was running cm9798 with your specs and it dragged alittle so god knows how 2008 would run on it.You really need to upgrade somewhat but as you have just said you cant so i would think maybe you will have to sell your game and wait till you can upgrade alittle.If you cant afford 150 punds on a new board then maybe try 40 pounds on a 1gb ram stick,Though not sure how old your system is and if (you ever get a new system) would be worth while as in ddr3 ddr2 etc but is another option.

Philco

You need decent high B/W ram and a decent processor to get any notable performance boost, for instance my own machine i have.

3.0Ghz Quad Core Extreme
4GB Ram (Minus 800MB) Due to having the Nividia 8800 GTX GFX card, DDR3 high b/w memory all built on an Asus striker extreme mobo.

I can play over 60 leagues in 30 odd nations with a huge db and it still flys. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Dude... How the heck did you get such a beast?
Honestly, must have cost you several thousands of pounds... </BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah man cost me an arm and a leg but its sure as hell worth it, all i need is another GFX card for Sli then ill be good lol. </BLOCKQUOTE>

o.o mind sendning me the old graphics card?

retired_vixen496

You need decent high B/W ram and a decent processor to get any notable performance boost, for instance my own machine i have.

3.0Ghz Quad Core Extreme
4GB Ram (Minus 800MB) Due to having the Nividia 8800 GTX GFX card, DDR3 high b/w memory all built on an Asus striker extreme mobo.

I can play over 60 leagues in 30 odd nations with a huge db and it still flys. </BLOCKQUOTE>

with them specs i sure hope it aint just fm2008 you use it for

retired_gotag8r

You need decent high B/W ram and a decent processor to get any notable performance boost, for instance my own machine i have.

3.0Ghz Quad Core Extreme
4GB Ram (Minus 800MB) Due to having the Nividia 8800 GTX GFX card, DDR3 high b/w memory all built on an Asus striker extreme mobo.

I can play over 60 leagues in 30 odd nations with a huge db and it still flys. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Dude... How the heck did you get such a beast?
Honestly, must have cost you several thousands of pounds... </BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah man cost me an arm and a leg but its sure as hell worth it, all i need is another GFX card for Sli then ill be good lol. </BLOCKQUOTE>

o.o mind sendning me the old graphics card? </BLOCKQUOTE>

lol if you want a 256Mb HD Radeon XT you can have it =)

Philco

You need decent high B/W ram and a decent processor to get any notable performance boost, for instance my own machine i have.

3.0Ghz Quad Core Extreme
4GB Ram (Minus 800MB) Due to having the Nividia 8800 GTX GFX card, DDR3 high b/w memory all built on an Asus striker extreme mobo.

I can play over 60 leagues in 30 odd nations with a huge db and it still flys. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Dude... How the heck did you get such a beast?
Honestly, must have cost you several thousands of pounds... </BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah man cost me an arm and a leg but its sure as hell worth it, all i need is another GFX card for Sli then ill be good lol. </BLOCKQUOTE>

o.o mind sendning me the old graphics card? </BLOCKQUOTE>

lol if you want a 256Mb HD Radeon XT you can have it =) </BLOCKQUOTE>

I must either be totally lost on technology, cause last tiem I checked, those sorts of cards were some of the best you could get o.O

retired_gotag8r

You need decent high B/W ram and a decent processor to get any notable performance boost, for instance my own machine i have.

3.0Ghz Quad Core Extreme
4GB Ram (Minus 800MB) Due to having the Nividia 8800 GTX GFX card, DDR3 high b/w memory all built on an Asus striker extreme mobo.

I can play over 60 leagues in 30 odd nations with a huge db and it still flys. </BLOCKQUOTE>

with them specs i sure hope it aint just fm2008 you use it for </BLOCKQUOTE>

I like my games =)

retired_Belljar24

First upgrading to a new CPU will 9 times out of 10 necessitate buying an new motherboard as well (and in the case of the OP it definately would since the Celeron and Quad Core CPU's are totally different socket types). Possibly new RAM and graphics card as well depending on how much backward compatability the new board has and the age of the components you have in your current PC (and in all honesty there's no point buying a near top of the line CPU if the transfer speed of your old RAM will bottleneck the system).

In the end that "only" £160 for a new CPU can easily turn into £600. Or more.

Secondly the ammount of RAM needed is dependant on what operating system you're running:

Vista. Yes 2GB as an absolute minimum (since the op system itself requires something like 1GB to run properly).

XP. You can easilly get away with 1 or 1.5GB for nearly every game or application out there. And there's no point going over 3GB with XP since it has a hard coded limit of being able to use 3.5GB.