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Upgrading an old pc to run games.

weasleys7

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Jul 9, 2013
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I have a pc that I haven't used in about 2 years but it is 5 years old and 5 years ago I could play the current games smoothly on medium to high settings. Its a Dell and that's about all I know could I upgrade it for around 100 dollars so It could run current games on medium settings. Or should I get more details before considering an upgrade price and If I can upgrade it. The games it played well was empire total war, Civilization 5, and it played stronghold 2 on the highest settings.