Need advice on an upgrade...

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Hello fellow [H]'s,
It's my birthday soon and I might be able to upgrade my box finally. But I'm not sure what to get. Here's my specs...

Athlon XP barton 2500+
1 gig ddr 400
gForce5700 Ultra (agp8x)

anyway... I would really like to build a new Athlon64 system/ with pciEx.., but I cant afford to buy a new mb, cpu, and video card... On the same note, I don't want to spend too much on a kick ass video card that will be thrown in a drawer when I build a new box
I really want to be able to play "ELder Scrolls 4:Oblivian", when it comes out in a few months. I've been fairly happy with my 5700 ultra untill quake4 and FEAR came out. I can run them, but I have to turn the res and shadows way down...
would I get a major improvement with gf6200? what about upgrading my cpu? Basiclly I want to know what's the best bang for my buck untill I can afford to build a new system...
Any suggestions would be helpfull...
 
n3g471v3 d3c1b3l said:
Hello fellow [H]'s,
It's my birthday soon and I might be able to upgrade my box finally. But I'm not sure what to get. Here's my specs...

Athlon XP barton 2500+
1 gig ddr 400
gForce5700 Ultra (agp8x)

anyway... I would really like to build a new Athlon64 system/ with pciEx.., but I cant afford to buy a new mb, cpu, and video card... On the same note, I don't want to spend too much on a kick ass video card that will be thrown in a drawer when I build a new box
I really want to be able to play "ELder Scrolls 4:Oblivian", when it comes out in a few months. I've been fairly happy with my 5700 ultra untill quake4 and FEAR came out. I can run them, but I have to turn the res and shadows way down...
would I get a major improvement with gf6200? what about upgrading my cpu? Basiclly I want to know what's the best bang for my buck untill I can afford to build a new system...
Any suggestions would be helpfull...

a 6600gt would probably be good. if you buy it used you won't lost that much money on it
 
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