Hello all,
I'm new to the forum and I'm in the process of upgrading my computer. I previously had a Athlon 2200 with 512 ram and a geforce 2. I want to start playing half life 2 and doom 3 so I realized its time to beef up the system.
Currently I have bought:
Sapphire X800 XT Platinum Edition 256Mb AGP8X
1 GB of Corsair Pc3200 Non-Ecc Ram
I'm trying to decide between buying the Athlon 64 3400 processor with asus motherboard or a P4 3.2 Ghz with H-T technology. Im wondering which one would be better for games mainly? The other thing I was curious on was Buying the 757 pin athlon 64 3400 with 512 mb L2 cache vs buying the athlon 64 3400 with 1 mb L2 cache? Will i see a big difference in performance over the 2? Also is there a speed difference between the 939 pin and the 757 pin models?
Any help would be appreciated
I'm new to the forum and I'm in the process of upgrading my computer. I previously had a Athlon 2200 with 512 ram and a geforce 2. I want to start playing half life 2 and doom 3 so I realized its time to beef up the system.
Currently I have bought:
Sapphire X800 XT Platinum Edition 256Mb AGP8X
1 GB of Corsair Pc3200 Non-Ecc Ram
I'm trying to decide between buying the Athlon 64 3400 processor with asus motherboard or a P4 3.2 Ghz with H-T technology. Im wondering which one would be better for games mainly? The other thing I was curious on was Buying the 757 pin athlon 64 3400 with 512 mb L2 cache vs buying the athlon 64 3400 with 1 mb L2 cache? Will i see a big difference in performance over the 2? Also is there a speed difference between the 939 pin and the 757 pin models?
Any help would be appreciated