Rig Upgrade Dead End?

Libast

Libast

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Hah, wow am behind the times now!

Have a 2.53 with an AIW 9700 pro, 1GB of some corsair XMS. Now, falling in line with my tradition of upgrading only when I can't play a game that I want to, its time to donate money to the IT sector.

I was looking on Newegg today, and they have some real cheap (Sub $65) AMD X2's. Woo hoo, that's how I got my Athlon XP 1600 back in the day!

Unfortunately, I think I have to say goodbye to the Radeon after so many years of faithful service, due to this new-fangled PCI express.

Fortunately, the socket 939 still can use my corsair, but is a dead socket line.

The AM2 will cause me to buy both ram and vid card.

I just need some guidance, don't want to spend too much, but its been a LONG time since I have gotten around to building a rig of my own.
 
Well, how much do you have? Or want to spend? and what game are you trying to play? what size monitor?
 
Irresponsibly, I could build the leetgamer 9000xstatic with built in air conditioned seats, but id like to keep it around 2-400 for myself and my wifes rig.

I installed bioshock and got the shocked, so to speak.

World of Warcraft is kinda rough here and there, but id still like it faster for when i load half life 2.

Monitors are just a 17" hp @ 1280x960
 
You can pull off full systems for 1200 each, they'll run pretty well too.

Unless that was supposed to be 400 dollars for each rig...which might be tricky. I'm not exactly sure how to read the hyphen.

Would your wife run comparable software?
 
200-400 each is a goal, although it looks like $500 is going to be my par I suppose.

She plays WoW, Delta Force, and Sims2.
 
BMW said:
200-400 each is a goal, although it looks like $500 is going to be my par I suppose.

She plays WoW, Delta Force, and Sims2.
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So she can basically use your old computer, right? hehe. And you can buy... dual core, 2gb ram, 320gb hdd, 7600gt, etc...

$90 - eVGA 256-P2-N615 Geforce 7600GT 256MB ($15MIR)
$80 - Biostar TF560 A2+ AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 560 MCP
$67 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Brisbane 2.1GHz Socket AM2
$67 - Hitachi T7K500 320GB 7200RPM SATA300 16MB Cache
$61 - pqi TURBO 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2-800 PQI26400-2GDB
$50 - XClio Goodpower 500W ATX 500W
$35 - Cooler Master RC-330-KKN1-GP ELITE 330 ($10MIR)
$31 - LG Electronics Black 18x SATA DVD Burner GSA-H62NK
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$481 + tax and shipping - $25 MIR

I'm not sure that will play Bioshock all too well, but it'll play it better than your current card in DX9 (gpu comparison link). Another possible card upgrade would be the X1950GT for $115.

Hm... I think I can trim that down a bit for your wife's system... since she doesnt play anything too demanding...

$67 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Brisbane 2.1GHz Socket AM2
$60 - Wd Caviar RE WD1600YS 160GB 7200RPM SATA300 16MB Cache
$60 - Biostar TFORCE TF520-A2 AM2 NVIDIA nForce 520 MCP
$50 - eVGA 128-P2-N441-LX GeForce 7300GT 128MB 64-bit GDDR2
$40 - FSP Group (Fortron Source) AX400-PN ATX12V 400W ($5MIR)
$35 - Cooler Master RC-330-KKN1-GP ELITE 330 ($10MIR)
$32 - A-DATA Value Series 1GB DDR2-800 VDQVE1A16
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$344 + tax and shipping - $15 MIRs
 
If you want all the eye candy and FSAA in WOW.. neither of those suggested cards is gonna cut it.
 
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