How well can this run?

How well can this comp (my really crappy comp, im upgrading it soon though)
run fallout 3 and oblivion?
Intel Pentium 4CPU 2.80GHz
MotherBoard: P4P800SE ASUSTeK
1024MB Ram DDR
20GB internal drive (500GB external)
Nvidia GeForce 6200 512MBIn a nutshell
2.80GHz
1GB Ram DDR
Nvidia GeForce 6200 128MBif they can run, how well wil lthey?

those games would take up half your hard disk between them. Not counting any of the expansions or dlc.

Replying to #2

Im putting them on my external HDD

Dont expect much from that computer. Even if it launches the games, you wont get enough fps to play I think. If I were you I would turn that external to an internal HDD because hard drives are very expensive right now.

MasterofXD · #3Im putting them on my external HDD

Just FYI, when trying to run something on an external HDD, it runs quite a bit slower than if it's an internal drive. This is due to limitation in USB transfer rates. On your current system, you REALLY don't want anything slowing down your games if you really want to get any appreciable FPS out of it.

installing programs to external hard disks is generally a very bad idea.

Yeah I know, but my current internal sucks so bad so might as well.
Now I gotta wait til march for a new comp -.-

its not just about performance, if the hard disk loses its connection to the computer while the program is running there will be significant data corruption and the computer could crash.

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And THIS is why I need to upgrade.

Loonylion · #8its not just about performance, if the hard disk loses its connection to the computer while the program is running there will be significant data corruption and the computer could crash.

That doesn't happen often Loony.

Replying to #10

more often than you'd think.

Replying to #11

Never happens to me.

Replying to #12

you've been lucky then. It's quite common, especially on computers with flaky USB controllers/ports.

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Oh. Wouldn't be mine then. Mine is like 3 grand from Harvey Norman :)

sadly the cost of the computer has no bearing on the quality of the components used, especially not in prebuilt machines. and considering it can happen with any computer, its safer to not risk it by always installing and run programs from internal hard disks only.

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I trust Harvey. And I trust Apple. Apple + Harvey = One awesome computer.

apple are notoriously bad.

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They are not bad. If you didn't have apple you wouldn't have an iPod.

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thats my exact point. There are hundreds of MP3 players better than the ipod, and there were mp3 players before the ipod. Apple have not invented anything new for decades, they just copy other companies idea's and market them like theres no tomorrow. PR is the only thing apple is actually good at, their products are overpriced and the quality of them is atrocious.

i've never seen a PC with a 20 GB HDD O_O i would have replaced it long ago, also loonylion what are the best brand of usb ports? mine are probably sub standard work fine, but dont like certain usb wires, also mac OS is a great piece of work, if i could run hackingtosh i wuldnt mind running OSX 10.6 since i used to work with 10.3.9 and 10.4.11, gotta love the macbooks.