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I guess I'll be getting a 7600GT then yay.

AMD Barton 3200+ 1GB RAM 9600 pro shitty 300W PSU with a 18A 12V rail. I am pretty close to retiring this machine. What would be awesome would be if I could keep it usable for at least a while. Obviously I haven't really been able to play any games for a long while so I don't expect any...

I'll be using my 2500+ OCed to 3200+ until I need something faster. So far, it's been great. I'll get something better later on and this will either be underclocked and retired to replace my linux server (366MHz CeleronA) or sold to someone (my brother uses a 850MHz P3 with a GF4). I haven't...

While it's a bit late, you made the right choice imo. You'll be able to OC the 3500+ with stock HSF, yes. Don't expect a clock of 3GHz though.

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A bad power supply seems most likely. What kind of voltages are you pulling on the +/-12V?

No, a GPU upgrade will not help with ghosting. Ghosting is normally the result of poor response time.

Probably not hardware related. I'd say you've got some opengl setting that CS doesn't like. Perhaps you have turned on/off vsync?

Try turning off triple buffering.

Smoother, yes, faster, no.

Increasing AA might remove some of it.

Since you've got an A7N8X, I guess you've got a Socket A cpu, and thus you don't have cool n quiet. You also say it's normally 1.83GHz, which a 2500+ normally does (166*11). Your chip however is running at 1.1GHz (100*11), so just go into BIOS and change the FSB from 100 to 166 or from 200 to...

It's just a matter of noise vs temperature. An idle temperature of 40C is no problem at all.

In a year, video card performance can double. You'd be lucky to see 25% improvement on CPUs in the same period.

2018 with the system in my sig with a bit less aggressive OC on the video card.. I can probably raise it a bit though, my 9600P likes to overclock. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1397510 edit: Ooo now it's http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1398983 at 2145 3dmark. Can...

2x AGP uses a different slot, at least my brother's P3 mobo does.

The 9600 is a 128-bit 4 pipe core. The 9800xt is a 256-bit 8 pipe core. I really don't think they're based on the same core.

There's also a built in windows delay for opening menus, at least in Windows 2000. I removed it using Tweak UI and menus pop up instantly on my not too amazing system.

I agree, filters help a lot. It's a lot easier to clean a filter than cleaning your entire computer.

It's a safe temperature. That doesn't mean you shouldn't work to improve it. My 2500+@3200+ with athlon stock fan does 45C or so.

My first PC was something like a 286 with a 270mb hd. My father arranged a cool menu system (we didn't have windows) that I could use to start a bunch of games (commander keen and stuff). I still have most of the stuff from that comp on my HD as I've moved everything from computer to computer as...

I'd go with a Ti4200. My brother uses one with his AGP2x mobo and it works quite well.

I went AMD because a 2500+@3200+ was way cheaper than anything else available to me, comparing performance/price.

More than $300 will never happen.

This will be really neat. Hopefully you'll find something useful to do with the gauges.

There is an ENORMOUS difference between 100fps and 50fps in CS. 50fps is not playable under any circumstances. All weapons hit wherever they feel like. I don't see how anyone can not notice the difference between 30fps and 100fps unless you've got refresh rate fixed at 60Hz.

A friend of mine is going to buy a A7N8X-X to replace his shitty matsonic board. Now, he's got a 2100+ t-bred with a 133MHz bus. I'm thinking it should work, but I couldn't find any info on ASUS' homepage. Does anyone have any experience with something like this?

No. Seems pretty useless to do. A friend of mine kicks the side of his computer whenever his computer crashes (10+ a day?).

That's one really long sentence.

Who didn't expect Steam to get completely destroyed today?

My Logitech Dual Optical seems to make a very slight sharp sound from the front of it, where the cord connects to the mouse.

It's supposedly a bit faster than the 9800XT which means it's most likely faster than 5950 and so on.

Seems to be right. 9600xt is 128bit, 500MHz core, 300 (600ddr) MHz memory

the 6800 should be faster most of the time, the 9800 is slower even though it's got 256mb ram.

While the 9600xt will be a slight improvement, it's probably not a huge step. I wouldn't upgrade to anything less than at least a 9700pro. 9800pro's are fairly cheap, consider one of those if you need a better card.

Quake is very playable on my father's Axim. Quake 2 is supposed to be playable on it too, haven't tried.

The PCI-E card won't run much faster, if at all. Not yet. However, in a year or two PCI-E will most likely be faster than AGP due to the fact that PCI-E is faster, simply.

It'd likely go the other way if you were to use an adaptor. Quality would decrease.

Using fans and heatsinks, not water or peltier etc.

Not sure if I understand your question but the DVI-connector is used primarily for flat monitors. It can also be used as a VGA-connector if you were to use an adaptor.