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Hey guys! I could really use some help! And fast please! My friend is having his Birthday in a week and I wanted to get some new parts for his PC. He is using the Celeron 450 2.2ghz and Intel GMA g33 graphics. So yeah it is pathetic. I am 99% sure it has one PCI-E 16x slot and it is a 775 motherboard socket. I was gonna get him a Core 2 Duo but heard it wouldn't work. So I was gonna get him a Pentium D 450 3.4ghz but RAGE says it won't play it.
Does anyone have a Pentium D 950 3.4ghz (meant 950 above not 450) or a CPU close to it that can play RAGE? I want to be sure it can before I buy him a CPU. Also I am buying him a GT520 1GB so that spot is fairly strong it is the CPU I am worried about. And 2GB of ddr2 is good right? I have an extra 2GB stick somewhere so it might be 3GB instead but not sure if he has a 64bit OS. Is the RAM cap 2GB or 3GB? Thank you!

It might be a bit off track for here as I just posted it on a can I run it PC website and copied it over to here. Like when I said it says it says I can't run it I meant a program on the webpage that guesses my game performance my entering my info.
I just checked again and it says I can run it with a Pentium D Extreme Edition 3.73GHz instead so yeah... Basically will this setup run RAGE?

Pentium D 950 3.4ghz

2GB or 3GB of DDR2

1GB GT520

300W PSU

I really want to get him new PC parts as the poor kid's most graphically intense game he plays is Flatout 2 on medium at 1280x720. Then I feel like I torture him when he plays games at my house like Metro 2033 on a i7 3930K and 3GB GTX 580 at Ultra on a massive flat screen. So pretty much all his friends have at least a XBOX 360 and then he is left in the dust with his pathetic PC. Will it at least Play Fallout 3? Thank you!

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PC

i7 3930K 3.2GHZ

EVGA GTX 580 3072MB

ASUS Rampage IV Extreme

24GB DDR3 Quad Channel

1200W Raidmax PSU 80 Plus Gold

1TB Western Digital Caviar

120GB OCZ Vertex IV Boot Drive

CM Storm ATX Full Tower Case

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit (with ROG theme)

IMO i wouldn't waste $50 on a GT 520, that GPU is almost as worthless as your Intel onboard graphics. I would go with something like the GTX 650 @ $130.

Basically any Nvidia card below x50 (520, 530, 540) is just a price-point filler that is comparable to cards from 2-3 generations ago.

OK thanks but do you want to pay for it?? It's not for my PC and a GT 520 is a Huge difference in performance from Intel GMA33. I am not a cheapskate I spend $600 on my GTX 580 3GB. But this GPU is not for me so I don't want to spend $130. I am actually getting a GT 630 GDDR5 for him instead so it will be faster. BTW you still didn't answer my question.
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Will this System run RAGE??

Pentium D 950 3.4GHZ

3GB DDR2

GT 630 1GB GDDR5

300W PSU
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Thank you!

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Rage-Gets-Official-PC-System-Requirements-220553.shtml

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+D+3.40GHz

According to this it seems a Core 2 Duo is the minimum, and the Pentium D benches lower than the Core 2 Duo.

Alright Thanks! And yet time changes everything! Got him a GT 440 2GB and a Core 2 Duo E6750. Thanks Again!