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Mixing old and new parts ?

  • 13-01-2005 11:16am
    #1
    Quigs Snr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭


    Ok, following on from my purchase of a spanking new GF6600GT I am slightly dissappointed with the improvement over my Ti4400, it's good, its really good in fact, but should be better, I want to play at those stupid resolutions that you read about in the reviews and smoothly too, and this is almost certainley down to my Mobo/CPU. I have a KT400 Mobo with an XP2100, I am thinking of upgradging to an AMD64 3000+ with an Nforce3 250 mobo. By all accounts this should give me a huge boost in games that use CPU for physics and AI, Particle effects etc... like Doom3 and HL2 etc.....

    However. My current ram is PC2700 (2x256), will this matter ? Is it really going to be all that noticeably slower in games than PC3200 ?

    Also my hard drives are a little creaky, 2 7200Rpm, ATA100 things, but that might just slow down load times a little, I would expect I could get away with these. The ram I am not sure about.

    Finally I reckon my sound card could be a problem too, my SBLive was great in its day but these days it probably does me no favours when I have reasonable sound quality turned on.

    Any idea's / advice ?

    Any advice ?


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  • #2
    BoB_BoT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭BoB_BoT


    you're processor isn't at all great for games, it's 1.7ghz with an fsb of 266 which means it's not that great at crunching numbers, even a 2500xp would be a good bit better. of course with a faster processor and equally clocked memory you will notice an improvement. Your sound card is grand, only if you want high quality sound, it might be time to go with an audigy. I'm currently running a 2500xp barton with 1gig of corsair memory (333), sb live 5.1 with an ati 9600xt and half life 2 runs sweet with just about all the settings on fully! so you don't have to go that far to see all the wonderful bits of hl2.

    :)


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