Once again confused

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jimmieshaun

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Ok, let me preface with my current rig, AMD 2500 @ 2.21 ghz, OCZ pc 3500(512), Radeon 9700 pro. I built this computer about 100 years ago and finally the video card took a dump. Up until this point it played everything I did. Maybe not the fastest but it played Ghost recon *1*, and America's army. I am a FPS all the way anyway. I dont really do anything on my computer that reaquires a ton of power. So I really don't want to upgrade everything yet. Preferably just the vid and ram. I know what I want, however; I am not looking for suggestions, I am going for the ATi x850 pro and 1 gig of corsair ram. The question I will be asking is for people who have simalar setups. I am curious what I can expect? Will I be Able to bust out pretty decent data rates with that rig? Will I be able to play GRAW and the new release of America's Army. Such as F.E.A.R. ? Or am I just spinning my wheels. and I should just get some other cheap stuff I.e. decent 64, cheap motherboard ddr2 ram and 850pro XT. I know it will give some head room in the future, but will cost me 450 bucks for that setup @ 64 3800+, 850xt, 1gb ram, and some podunk motherboard.

Any help is honestly muchly appreciated!
 
My current rig runs EVERYTHING at 1280 x 1024 with high quality. My CPU runs @ 2.4 though as compared to your 2.2. The x850 isn't that far behind my 7800 gs, so you should be able to have decent frame rates. I can't say i recommend that kind of upgrade right now though. If I were you, I would get an e6300 and an Asrock dual VSTA. Then upgrade video and RAM as you wish.
 
Thanks for the reply. Yet, my dilema is that I dont have 400 bucks to throw at a new PC right now. I have read mixed reviews on the AsRock. Some saying that its x4 is medocere at best and its lack of propitery ram type slows everything down. I doubt all the reviews are the same and all of them are truthful, while one may not be true, 7-8 points at certain flaws. I guess I will check it out. for 300 bucks I guess it shouldn't be too bad! :) Do you think that 512 megs will last me for a while? or am I going to be bottlenecked pretty bad? I just dont have 500 bucks to spend right now. Being a student and working full time just to barley make ends meet is kind of crappy. Around the first of the year I can prolly go for the better system.. then again maybe I can just hold out all together. Ugh.. I'm so lost.
 
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