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Upgrade questions with an Athlon 2400 and the X800
With the arrival of the new X800 cards, the upgrade question begs to
be asked. I'm running an Athlon 2400XP on 1 GB of PC2700 DDR-RAM. I'm currently running a Geforce Ti4200 128MB card. Obviously, it's time for this card to go.. Games such as Far Cry and Battlefield Vietnam are seriously unplayable. As you can imagine. I have considered purchasing a $1200 motherboard/cpu/ upgrade to go along with the X800 card, but taking that deep of a financial plunge right now seems a bit unrealistic. With that question out of the way for a moment, could I just put in this X800 Pro/Platinum card and expect a considerable performance increase in FPS for these power hungry games? Or is the Athlon 2400 just too much of a bottleneck to even consider adding the high end cards or not without doing a complete upgrade? I thank you for any help you guys can offer me on this situation. I'm really hoping that I don't have to upgrade the CPU just yet, even though I probably should. |
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Hi
How are you running your 2400 At 133 X 15 or 166 X 12? most 2400s will hit 2.3-2.5 Ghz Smiffy |
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John Smith wrote:
most 2400s will hit 2.3-2.5 Ghz Of course, sure... -- maniac(at)chello.pl |
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most 2400s will hit 2.3-2.5 Ghz Will most likely not. Not everybody are using dryice as a cooler. |
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