| upgrade for aoe3
ok well i currently have a laptop with the following specs
1.8 pentium m dothan
2 gigs of ram
ati 9700 mobility with 128 mb
i have a desktop with
p4 2.0
ati radeon 9600se 128mb
512mb ram
now these are just the basic specs, i am going to have to look up the cache etc, but i just got aoe3 for xmas and it runs on the laptop so long as i turn a good portion of the graphics down(i run it at 1400by1050 but i dont see much difference when i turn it down to 1024by768). the game still looks decent, but when i have set all to high and see the difference that i could have, i obviously want more. so i have come up with the idea that perhaps it would be possible to upgrade my desktop enough to run the game on there. if i were to do so, i would like to keep costs to a minimum, but lets say 250bucks american. would it make sense to head over to newegg and get a new graphics card, or would i need to add more ram, and processor, motherboard? if this is possible then i fall into the pit of what to get so i dont spend so much but still get some improvement? any advice? what other information would be the most crucial for me to find out so someone could more accurately give me some advice? also my next machine i would like to be an amd 64 bit. i know some setups of that chip are not too pricy. This also brings up the issue of how do i know which is better for which card, the memory, or the model?
i consider my self computer savy, but have never bothered to get too deep with the fsb etc for processors and or video cards? advice?  | 
