Yes if it's an pentium 4, 3.4ghz processor. If you got that other pc for free sell it on ebay or in your local paper and take the money you got from it and put it towards upgrades on your other pc, like more ram, a nice agp graphics card like a 7800 series or a better PSU. You could prob sell that system as is for around 400. That's enough to get a better psu and a nice graphics card. Just remember to check what you have psu wise in your Sony if it's an ATX 1.0 and anything under at least 12v 20/A, and 430w then you will have to get a better psu if you want a nice agp card to go along with it. Attempting to put any upgrads into that free system, would be a stupid move, because you will be spending as much money if not more then what it's worth on alone. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7900GT SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

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Since everyone seems to be avoiding the Main subject qrustion, I'll do the honors and attempt to answer. 256Mb vs 512Mb only really makes a noticeable difference at extremely high resolution, we are talking megapixes here, that for the most part only a hand full of games support, res's as high as 2560x1600. You would need an XHD monitor just to take advantage of these types of resolutions. Even high demanding modern games with ridiculously high textures maps do not take advandage of 512MB of v-ram. So, to the point, as of now, 512mb is just a marketing ploy to get sales from the ignorant who think more is better. Prescott 2.8Ghz Oc'ed @ 3.6Ghz; 5:4 ratio Abit Is7-E Motherboard, i865-PE Chipset Muskin pc3200 Enhanced, 412Mhz; 2.5-3-3-6 Pny 6800nu; 430Mhz 820Mhz; 16p,5vp Two 36Gb Raptors in raid0 a

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Thank you very much Mr. Noobie. I was hoping to get that answered eventually. I very much appreciate it. That makes alot of sense. I'm thinking I've just decided on buying a new computer...don't know what brand. It can't be much more than 1000 bucks. Thats about my limit there. If anyone has any suggestions on what to buy please let me know. Or if I should just build my own. Thanks for the help again.

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build.............

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The way I have always looked at an investmant such as buying or building a personal computing is to know first its purpose. What do I want to do with this machine? In my case, a little bit of everything, watching, decoding, encoding DVDs, playing modern, realistic games; surfing the net, ripping my CD collection, the ocasional image, video editing, and playing around with 3D creation, such as 3D Studio Max, Poser, and Daz3D. All of the above requires a good amount of horse power, a three year old computer is just not going to cut it. It took me a few weeks of research to really learn about the appropriate hardward that would fit my needs. I decided the bast way to accomplish this was to build my own system. For two main reasons, to save money and to pick & choose only the components I needed. It also allowed me to gain valuable knowledge of how to assemble and configure hardware. Also, installing the Operating System with no Free junkware that Prebuilt companies throw in is how I prefer it anyway. So take your time ,do your research, ask questions, post at forums, and then carefully decide what you want and why you want it. Before eating, always take a little time to thank the food.

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