Look before you leap
Can I just offer a word of advice from someone who has recently done some insane modifications to her PC for the sake of a game?
Don’t do it.
Look before you leap. Don’t trust a bunch of half-educated, half-cocked, know-it-all do-it-yourselfers who don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.
It becomes an obsession, overruling anything else. You seek rumors of ways to squeak some more performance out of your aging machine.
You think regretfully how much easier it would’ve been to simply buy the Xbox 360 and save lots of aggravation. You think sadly to yourself how that’s still an option, how a new CPU would still be pretty cheap if you played your cards right.
Don’t do it. Be happy with what you have.
Sigh. I need to get back to my slow-playing game.