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will a new motherboard improve my system performance for doom 3
I have an A7V333 mobo , athlon xp 3000 (maximum cpu for the board) with
gforce 5900, 512meg of ddr 2700 memory, Will an upgrade to an nvidia mobo such as Abit AN7 Guru nForce2 Ultra, 10/100 LAN, USB 2.0, 1394, 6Ch Audio, SATA, Raid http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...roductID=87815 or the Abit NF7-S2G nForce2 Ultra, Gbit Lan, USB 2.0, 1394, 6Ch Audio, SATA, Raid http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=127220 have any improvement on my system speed. in particular 3d shootem ups and specifically doom3. I am aware that another 512 of memory will help speed things up. TIA if this is off topic please be kind and piont me in the write direction for advice. |
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ed wrote:
I have an A7V333 mobo , athlon xp 3000 (maximum cpu for the board) with gforce 5900, 512meg of ddr 2700 memory, Will an upgrade to an nvidia mobo such as Abit AN7 Guru nForce2 Ultra, 10/100 LAN, USB 2.0, 1394, 6Ch Audio, SATA, Raid http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...roductID=87815 or the Abit NF7-S2G nForce2 Ultra, Gbit Lan, USB 2.0, 1394, 6Ch Audio, SATA, Raid http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=127220 have any improvement on my system speed. in particular 3d shootem ups and specifically doom3. I am aware that another 512 of memory will help speed things up. TIA if this is off topic please be kind and piont me in the write direction for advice. No. -- Derek |
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Upgrading to an Athlon 64 and a new motherboard for it might
help quite a bit. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=2149&p=7 Of course upgrading to a 6800 Ultra or 6800 GT video card will also help quite a bit. http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQyLDM= ed wrote: I have an A7V333 mobo , athlon xp 3000 (maximum cpu for the board) with gforce 5900, 512meg of ddr 2700 memory, Will an upgrade to an nvidia mobo such as Abit AN7 Guru nForce2 Ultra, 10/100 LAN, USB 2.0, 1394, 6Ch Audio, SATA, Raid http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...roductID=87815 or the Abit NF7-S2G nForce2 Ultra, Gbit Lan, USB 2.0, 1394, 6Ch Audio, SATA, Raid http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=127220 have any improvement on my system speed. in particular 3d shootem ups and specifically doom3. I am aware that another 512 of memory will help speed things up. TIA if this is off topic please be kind and piont me in the write direction for advice. |
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JK wrote:
Upgrading to an Athlon 64 and a new motherboard for it might help quite a bit. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=2149&p=7 Of course upgrading to a 6800 Ultra or 6800 GT video card will also help quite a bit. http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQyLDM= But I wouldn't upgrade anything just to play Doom 3. It aint that good. -- Morgan. ---- * Son, when you get older you'll realise that life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead. Mail: Webpage: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/msales |
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thanks chaps for the help regarding the mobo. but not for morgans excellent
critique of the FPS genre summed up beautifully with the phrase " It aint that good." the miserable snattergutch. ;-} "Morgan Sales" wrote in message ... JK wrote: Upgrading to an Athlon 64 and a new motherboard for it might help quite a bit. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=2149&p=7 Of course upgrading to a 6800 Ultra or 6800 GT video card will also help quite a bit. http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQyLDM= But I wouldn't upgrade anything just to play Doom 3. It aint that good. -- Morgan. ---- * Son, when you get older you'll realise that life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead. Mail: Webpage: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/msales |
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On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:23:02 +0000 (UTC), "ed"
wrote: I have an A7V333 mobo , athlon xp 3000 (maximum cpu for the board) with gforce 5900, 512meg of ddr 2700 memory, Will an upgrade to an nvidia mobo such as Abit AN7 Guru nForce2 Ultra, 10/100 LAN, USB 2.0, 1394, 6Ch Audio, SATA, Raid http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...roductID=87815 or the Abit NF7-S2G nForce2 Ultra, Gbit Lan, USB 2.0, 1394, 6Ch Audio, SATA, Raid http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=127220 have any improvement on my system speed. in particular 3d shootem ups and specifically doom3. I am aware that another 512 of memory will help speed things up. TIA if this is off topic please be kind and piont me in the write direction for advice. nFore2 board running in dual channel mode "might" get you another 5% with same CPU & video, and has a better PCI bus but that's not so relevant to gaming. Realistically the best upgrade at this point would be rebuilding or a new box with an A64 CPU, m'board, a couple PC3500 512MB memory modules... you could add more memory but A7V333 may be bordering on instability with more memory plus you probably won't get many more FPS with only the memory upgrade. |
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I agree with JK. A new mobo would only be warranted if you intended on
upgrading your processor as well. The most benificial thing you could do besides going out and buying and Alienware area 51 extreme, would be upgrading your video card to something a little more powerful (also the more on board memory the card has the better, since it won't be eating system ram for video) mbowen83 ed wrote: I have an A7V333 mobo , athlon xp 3000 (maximum cpu for the board) with gforce 5900, 512meg of ddr 2700 memory, Will an upgrade to an nvidia mobo such as Abit AN7 Guru nForce2 Ultra, 10/100 LAN, USB 2.0, 1394, 6Ch Audio, SATA, Raid http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...roductID=87815 or the Abit NF7-S2G nForce2 Ultra, Gbit Lan, USB 2.0, 1394, 6Ch Audio, SATA, Raid http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=127220 have any improvement on my system speed. in particular 3d shootem ups and specifically doom3. I am aware that another 512 of memory will help speed things up. TIA if this is off topic please be kind and piont me in the write direction for advice. |
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ed wrote:
thanks chaps for the help regarding the mobo. but not for morgans excellent critique of the FPS genre summed up beautifully with the phrase " It aint that good." the miserable snattergutch. ;-} You want to waste your money that's fine. Just don't come crying to me when you realise it's not even worth the money for the game let alone the money for new hardware. BTW, what in gods name is a snattergutch? :-) -- Morgan. ---- * When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk, and go to heaven... :- Brian O'Rourke Mail: Webpage: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/msales |
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The new hardware will help with other games and software
that is not a game. It isn't like only Doom 3 performance would benefit from hardware upgrades. Morgan Sales wrote: ed wrote: thanks chaps for the help regarding the mobo. but not for morgans excellent critique of the FPS genre summed up beautifully with the phrase " It aint that good." the miserable snattergutch. ;-} You want to waste your money that's fine. Just don't come crying to me when you realise it's not even worth the money for the game let alone the money for new hardware. BTW, what in gods name is a snattergutch? :-) -- Morgan. ---- * When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk, and go to heaven... :- Brian O'Rourke Mail: Webpage: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/msales |
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"ed" wrote in message ... I have an A7V333 mobo , athlon xp 3000 (maximum cpu for the board) with gforce 5900, 512meg of ddr 2700 memory, Will an upgrade to an nvidia mobo such as Abit AN7 Guru nForce2 Ultra, 10/100 LAN, USB 2.0, 1394, 6Ch Audio, SATA, Raid http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...roductID=87815 or the Abit NF7-S2G nForce2 Ultra, Gbit Lan, USB 2.0, 1394, 6Ch Audio, SATA, Raid http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=127220 have any improvement on my system speed. in particular 3d shootem ups and specifically doom3. NOTHING will help Doom3... Doom 3 is one of the main reasons that piracy exists. They hype up the software until everyone is foaming at the mouth. Then they release it and make a ton of sales quickly. It doesn't take long for everyone to realize that its a big piece o' crap. I'm VERY glad I didn't shell any money out for this game. I am aware that another 512 of memory will help speed things up. TIA if this is off topic please be kind and piont me in the write direction for advice. FWIW, You could try adding another 512meg of memory to your system. A faster HDD might help, (especially a Raptor SATA drive if your mainboard supports it, but I don't think so). At this point there isn't much you can do to make your PC faster except replace it, and your machine looks like it's already plenty fast! Don't waste your time or money worrying about it. |
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