upgrading pc

[wod]

currently have a **** pc its a

1.4ghz athlon
512mb ddr pc2100
64mb gf2 ti

and was thinking of going to a

intel Pentium 4 520 "LGA775 Prescott" 2.8GHz (800FSB
Abit AA8 DURAMAX motherboard
Corsair 512MB DDR2 XMS2-4200
MSI RX600XT-TD ATI Radeon X600 XT 128MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express)

will that be ok for a not top end gaming machine but in the middle ?

it worth while going for that or will better stuff come out ?

[Super Stu]

I'll be blunt: that's a complete waste of money.

[capcom_suicide]

I'll be blunt: that's a complete waste of money.

x600 = Radeon9600 = ****e

PCI-E = Waste of time currently.

Either go AGP today, or wait 9-12Months for a PCI-E based system, when you will pick up 6800/x800 GPU based cards at an OK price.

If deffo going PCI-E the X-800 XT PCI-E car is out in Sept. It costs about 330 quid.

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=301357&cks=PRL

It's the card I have to get, due to work giving me a new PC, with P4/PCI-E on it. (Dell Gx280)

It pains me to say, it will offer very little over AGP. As does AGP8x give very little of AGP4X.

/C_S

[wod]

so its not worth it then as i just want something that will play doom 3 and the odd other game. i need to replace the motherboard as i cant upgrade the ram to ddr 400 or add agp 8x graphics card

what about these 9800 pro cards at 150 quid ? and what are Asus A7N8X-E motherboard like ?

[demon9k]

If you read the Doom 3 threads in this section everyone is pretty happy with the 9800 Pro from the benchmarks in Doom 3. You should check some of the topics out if you want to gauge what type of system you want.

[fifty?ballz]

This is what I'd get:

Athlon XP 2500 ?40 2nd hand

650 grams of copper heatsink to overclock 2500xp faster than 3200xp, ?10 2nd hand ebay

Nforce 2 Ultra board with AGP locking ?30 2nd hand

2 Sticks of 512MB DDR 400 RAM

Geforce6 6800Ultra ?200 (pricerunner - misprint?)

I doubt you'll find a better system without spending silly money.

[capcom_suicide]

This is what I'd get:

Athlon XP 2500 ?40 2nd hand

650 grams of copper heatsink to overclock 2500xp faster than 3200xp, ?10 2nd hand ebay

Nforce 2 Ultra board with AGP locking ?30 2nd hand

2 Sticks of 512MB DDR 400 RAM

Geforce6 6800Ultra ?200 (pricerunner - misprint?)

I doubt you'll find a better system without spending silly money.

Agree 100% If u want to shave off 60 quid take a 9800Pro. But the 12 Pipe 6800 at ?180 on ocUK is a bargain.

/C_S

[wod]

yeah it looks good and want it to last abit so think i'll go with the 6800, change the board to a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro 2 or Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe, plus a 3200+ and 512mb ddr 400 memory ? that seem reasonable ?

[capcom_suicide]

yeah it looks good and want it to last abit so think i'll go with the 6800, change the board to a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro 2 or Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe, plus a 3200+ and 512mb ddr 400 memory ? that seem reasonable ?

Change the 3200 to a 2500 mobile, (Can be overclocked safely to 3200, as it was designed for low power laptops) then use the extra ?? for another 512MB ram.

You WILL need more than 512MB in the next 6 months.

/C_S

[Dache]

Get a GB of RAM straight off.

[NeilMcRae]

Dood, get this:


Shopping Cart (Prices in British Pounds) DESCRIPTION QUANTITY PRICE COST REMOVE
Asus P4P800S SE (Socket 478) Motherboard (MB-035-AS)
?38.50 ?38.50
Corsair 1GB DDR Value Select PC3200 Kit (2x512MB) (MY-041-CS)
?114.00 ?114.00
Intel Pentium 4 "Prescott" 2.8GHz (800FSB) with HT Technology - Retail (CP-045-IN)
?112.00 ?112.00
Galaxy Glacier GeForce 6800 128MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (AGP) - Retail (GX-000-CL)
?183.95 ?183.95

That is more or less whats in my other PC [apart from the video card] and its the nuts.

Neil.

[demon9k]

Yeah thats basically my system too, apart from I will be having an x800 XT and I have a giga-byte mobo.

It is rather fast.

[NeilMcRae]

also its worth getting 2 fast drives and raiding them to decrease loading times in doom.

[demon9k]

Already done I got 2 Maxtor drives in Raid 0, I couldn't believe how fast windows loaded when I first got them.

I want to get 2 Western Digital raptors for windows though

That will probably be my next PC purchase after x800 XT