CyberPowerPC - Unleash The Power

Hi, Cyberpower built my PC for me about three years ago and it was done over the phone because I have absolutely no technical knowledge at all - my only specification was that I wanted a reasonably priced rig that would display Everquest II well.

They built it and sent it to me and I'm still perfectly content with it so see no need to get a whole new PC but I feel it probably is time to upgrade the graphics. I'm still playing EQII and think the game can probably be shown to better advantage than it currently is. At the moment I'm using an ATI radeon HD 4600 which is what the PC came with. Can anyone tell me a reasonably priced but better card than that these days? Err, and I do need to upgrade my processor too? (I have no idea how to do either of those things but I know a man who can ) Oh and one of my fans stopped working (that used to look kinda cool as it showed the temperature on it in red neon writing so should I replace that?

I think that's all my PC questions - thanks for listening:) Feb

Hi, the motherboard is AMD 64 (quad core), it has 4 Gb of RAM and the chip set is AMD790 GX.

The PSU is max 580 Watt.

The processor is an AMD Phenon 9950 Quad-Core Processor 2.60 GHz.

I think that was everything you wanted to know. Speed wise, it's ok but if it can be super-fast then maybe a new PC is the way to go but the trouble is that I know what I want but have no clue how to express it in technical terms. When I got this PC it was as a result of a phone call saying "Hi, I game and I'd like a good PC please"

Originally posted by Febrith Speed wise, it's ok but if it can be super-fast then maybe a new PC is the way to go but the trouble is that I know what I want but have no clue how to express it in technical terms.

If you were thinking of a new system then just post your budget and what you want out of it here on the forums and someone can help! Im sure i can steal a few more ideas of cyber tech and pass them off as my own and help out too :p

Aah ok, well the fan's not worked for months /blush - I'm pretty sure there's more than one fan in there but that one was obvious because it would light up and tell you the temperature. Ok, well I wasn't thinking about a new rig but having read a bit more of these forums I can see that technology has moved on and I haven't so, notionally for about £1000 what would you recommend? - with gaming being my priority as that's my PC's prime function, that and the odd movie. (It's wired up to a telly rather than a monitor).
And thanks for your responses:)