Age of Conan

The specs go as follows:

Nzxt Apollo Gaming Tower Case w/420W Power Supply

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6750 (2x 2.66GHz/4MB L2 Cache/1333FSB)

Motherboard: Asus P5N-E SLI nForce® 650i SLI Chipset w/6-channel CODEC, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, IEEE-1394 Dual PCI-E MB

Ram: 2048MB [1024MB X2] DDR2-800 PC6400 Memory Module

Video Card: Nvida GeForce 8500GT 1gb w/DVI TV Out Video

250 GB HARD DRIVE   [Serial-ATA-II, 3Gb, 7200 RPM, 8M Cache]

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic (64-bit)

If i missed anything let me know.

2Gb ram is not enough for Vista really and Vista home basic is useless, you would need home premium at least.  That aside I would also opt for a larger power supply but these aside and dependant on price not a bad little system which should run AoC on medium reasonably well.

I would get a better video card if you can. Rest seems good to me, as well as Eric's comments:)

Alright i went to premium how is the 8600GT 1gb video card?

Originally posted by Vladarion

Alright i went to premium how is the 8600GT 1gb video card?

8600GT will do the job fine but get a bigger PSU, something around 600 - 700W

you do not need 600 watts unless you are running 2 in sli....500 is fine

i am running a 5200+ amd x2, 4 hds (2 in SATAII, 2 in PATA), 2 gigs dr800 ram with an 8800gt on a 550w

It's not really in my budget to go higher, in order to get a 600 one i would need to spend 64 extra bucks...

500 would leave him needing another new one should he decide to add a 2nd card later on.  600 is not much more expensive and would save money in the long term.

Originally posted by eric1000

500 would leave him needing another new one should he decide to add a 2nd card later on.  600 is not much more expensive and would save money in the long term.

unfortunately SLi is not really worth the bigger power supply...for an extra 200 dollar 8800gt, you get a 20% performance increase on top of paying for a bigger power supply....might as well just get a better vid card then at that price

Originally posted by miagisan

Originally posted by eric1000

500 would leave him needing another new one should he decide to add a 2nd card later on.  600 is not much more expensive and would save money in the long term.

unfortunately SLi is not really worth the bigger power supply...for an extra 200 dollar 8800gt, you get a 20% performance increase on top of paying for a bigger power supply....might as well just get a better vid card then at that price

Apart from the fact an 8800 sucks up 300w on it's own then yes the better card would give a greater performance increase.  From his last post however he is working to a tight budget so that doesn't appear to be an option.

OP, have you also priced up an AMD system as you may be able to build one to better spec for about the same price as the Intel based one?

just out of curiousity...if he was an avid AoC fan....does AoC support sli? cause if he is building a computer just for that reason, you have to make sure AoC supports SLI