:: www.hardwarezone.com®- Recommended Upgrade Guide 2005 ::

With so many great games launched at the end of the year, you will need a graphic card to support DirectX 9 that renders the nice sky, water ripple effects, reflections and other realistic visual effects that will glue you to your monitor in amazement.

Sight and Sound provides the ultimate gaming experience. With all the eye candy, you will want to be surrounded by sound effects coming at you from multi-speakers setup similar to the ones in movie theaters.

Here are some of our R.U.G. PC recommendations for the Hardcore gamers and Casual gamers.



This AMD 64bit processor with Geforce 6800 series that supports PS 3.0 should satisfy you with the best visual and gaming performance. Coincidently and conveniently for this configuration, you can get both your graphic card and mainboard driver updates all at the same website.	Although ATI’s Radeon series might not yet support PS 3.0, it is still the fastest GPU around. Add an Intel Prescott processor and you will be breezing through most games smoothly, even demanding games like Doom 3 and Half-Life 2.	If your budget is tight or you do not require the highest-end components, this R.U.G. PC system using Geforce 6600GT graphic card will suffice. It renders visually as well as the 6800 series because it supports PS 3.0 too. If you don't mind the playing games at 1600 X 1200 without high quality FSAA, this recommendation is for you.