Question: can i Play games on this? eMachines T3312 AMD Sempron 3300+ 2GHz / 512MB DDR / 80GB 7200RPM HDD / DVD-Rom/CD-RW / Flash Media Reader / nVIDIA GeForce 6100 Video / 10/100Mbps LAN / Windows XP Home / Desktop PC\nif not i am going to save my $$$ and biuld me a rig.

Answer: To play most modern game you will have to change 2 (maybe 3) things on your PC.\n\n1. Your graphics card, I believe the 6100 is onboard.  There are problems with this graphics card (the 6100 and the 6200) when playing certain games, even though it's in the 6 range this is the lowest of that range.  If you stick with nVidia change it to the 6600 or the 7600.  You will notice the improved performance straight away when playing games like Oblivion.\n\n2. Increase your RAM, 256-512mb is the norm now a days for games, but remember you will also have background proceses running in Windows while you play games.  Increase this to a minimum of 1 gb, pref 2gb.  Again you will see a good inprovement when you play games.\n\n3. This is optional, a bigger hard drive.  Depending on how much space you have left on your PC, you may wish to have more.  Remember you need at lest 12% free disk space to perform a good defrag and with new games taking more and more space, you'll soon run out of HD space.  Maybe upgrade to a 200gb drive or bigger.\n\nThe rest of your spec's are great.  Remember AMD mark up their CPU's differently than Intel, so because you have a 3300+, it's preformance speed is suppose to run at a 3ghz chip while it's core speed run's at 2ghz. *However in the next few yesrs you may wish to take a look at the dual core chips from AMD & Intel, but it's not necessary at the moment.\n\nHope this helps
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