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advice on gaming system upgrade
Hey folks,
Let's say you had the following system: AMD Athlon XP 2800+ ASUS A7N8X motherboard (for socket A chips) 1 GB Infineon DDR400 RAM (2x512 MB sticks) Gainward NVIDA GeForce 4 Ti4200 AGP 8 with 128 MB Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space soundcard WinXP Home 2002 with SP1 And you had about 300 Euros / 380 US Dollars to spend on upgrading it. And you wanted to play a mix of games like American Conquest, Mafia, Pro Evolution Soccer 3, Mediaval Total War. What you go buy next to get the best performance boost for your buck/Euro? Thanks for any advice :-) Cheers, ES |
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Get one of the newer DX9 capable video cards, such as an nVidia FX 5700
Ultra. It would be a good match for your system. -- DaveW "ES" wrote in message ... Hey folks, Let's say you had the following system: AMD Athlon XP 2800+ ASUS A7N8X motherboard (for socket A chips) 1 GB Infineon DDR400 RAM (2x512 MB sticks) Gainward NVIDA GeForce 4 Ti4200 AGP 8 with 128 MB Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space soundcard WinXP Home 2002 with SP1 And you had about 300 Euros / 380 US Dollars to spend on upgrading it. And you wanted to play a mix of games like American Conquest, Mafia, Pro Evolution Soccer 3, Mediaval Total War. What you go buy next to get the best performance boost for your buck/Euro? Thanks for any advice :-) Cheers, ES |
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What kind of HDD? I ave noticed that those 8mb cache drives do speed the
system up considerably. |
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ES wrote:
Hey folks, Let's say you had the following system: AMD Athlon XP 2800+ ASUS A7N8X motherboard (for socket A chips) 1 GB Infineon DDR400 RAM (2x512 MB sticks) Gainward NVIDA GeForce 4 Ti4200 AGP 8 with 128 MB Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space soundcard WinXP Home 2002 with SP1 And you had about 300 Euros / 380 US Dollars to spend on upgrading it. And you wanted to play a mix of games like American Conquest, Mafia, Pro Evolution Soccer 3, Mediaval Total War. What you go buy next to get the best performance boost for your buck/Euro? A killer video card. I went from the card you have to an ATI 9800 pro and doubled + the frame rates. The rest of your system is plenty fast enough, the video card is the bottle neck. -- Stacey |
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Thanks to everyone who replied. I just took your advice and ordered an
original ATI 9800 Pro. I'll also look into getting a faster hard drive. Cheers! ES "Stacey" wrote in message ... A killer video card. I went from the card you have to an ATI 9800 pro and doubled + the frame rates. The rest of your system is plenty fast enough, the video card is the bottle neck. -- Stacey |
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