• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

decisions decisions

E

el_lance_o

Limp Gawd
Joined
Jul 9, 2004
Messages
235
I don't know what to do. I'm not sure whether to get either a geforce 6600 gt or an athlon 64 setup with a 2800 and a nforce 150 or so. My system's in my sig. I think I can wither get the 6600 gt and maybe have my system be bottlenecking the card, or get the 64 system setup, and have my video card bottleneck my system. Oy I don't know what to do, any thoughts or ideas?
 
I would go with the video card probley. You will get a lot better directx 9 performance in games, I dont think that the processor upgrade will give you that much more performance since you are going to get a 2800+ 64 from a 3200+. You will see some performance gain in that upgrade, but I dont think it would be enough to warrant an upgrade, wait for awhile and get a 3000+ or 3200+. Plus, with getting the videocard you dont have to worry about your processor/motherboard becomes obsolete later. AGP will be in motherboards for awhile so you can always carry the GPU over put with a new processor/mobo you could run into some complications later down the road when you upgrade that.
 
oh yeah that's right. Yeah I guess I'll go for the video card whenever it comes out for agp. Besides, I probably can hit 2.4ghz with this so it won't be a real bottlneck to the system at all, especially with dual channel. No all's I gotta do is figure out when the agp 6600gt's are coming out. Or maybe I can get a 6800nu.......... eeh
 
Definitely get the vid. card. With my POS system the vid card made a huge difference in games. I decided to get a bfg6800 as the first step in upgrading my system. The difference is amazing. I can play FarCry at 1280 with 2nd to the highest settings at very playable fps rates. I expected an increase in performance but was pretty shocked with the increase that I got. I would ventrure to say that with alot of games the vid card is the driving factor over the CPU as far as performance is concern. I expect an upgrade in performance once I buy a new CPU but I'm not sure that the benefits will equal what I got by just upgrading the video card.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top