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  • 20-06-2005 7:30pm
    #1
    Bartonprince
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    i am running the below PC. I now have 1GB of pc3200 DDR. What should i upgrade (1 piece for the moment) going to turkey in a week and then the oxegen festival. I want to upgrade something to help me in gaming and can only afford like a GFX card, a CPU or a Mainboard. ANd because if i got a AMD64 i'd need a mainboard would it be worth getting a 3200+ tbred socket A instead? I think the 9600pro should hold up with a better mobo/cpu combo. What dya think?


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  • #2
    Vikings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,788 ✭✭✭Vikings


    If it was me, I would go with graphics card first, then mobo and cpu. Although there is no harm seeing if your graphics card suits your needs with an upgraded mobo and cpu.


  • #3
    uberpixie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭uberpixie


    ig
    Bartonprince wrote:
    i am running the below PC. I now have 1GB of pc3200 DDR. What should i upgrade (1 piece for the moment) going to turkey in a week and then the oxegen festival. I want to upgrade something to help me in gaming and can only afford like a GFX card, a CPU or a Mainboard. ANd because if i got a AMD64 i'd need a mainboard would it be worth getting a 3200+ tbred socket A instead? I think the 9600pro should hold up with a better mobo/cpu combo. What dya think?

    You should be getting more fps than that.

    Ok I went from a 2400XP + 512mb of ram with a 9800 NP
    (40-50 frames video stress test in cs source)

    to

    3500+ amd64, 1 gig of ram and my 9800NP
    (100-110 frames)

    CPU makes a huge difference to HL2 and most games.

    If you could get a better cpu in socket A then go for it. Bare in mind you will need a 333mhz/400mhz bus speed on your mobo to take the higher cpus in socket A (2500xp and up).

    If you have a 266mhz bus you can only go as high as a 2400XP.

    TBH if you really want to play HL2 and all the new first person shooters well
    save up and get a new 939 + mobo + pci express gfx card.


  • #4
    deckie27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭deckie27


    if the processor is a throubred rev b it will proball do circ. 2000mhz if not more Which is close to 3200+. The 9800 would probal be best but try yhe processor overclock set the multiplier to *11 or 11.5 or 12.

    if you go for new m/b and cpu u may as well go pci-e

    Dec


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