Should I bother upgrading?

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KevC

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Hey guys,

I currently have a S754 A64 @ 1.8Ghz, pretty slow... a gig of ram and a slow 5900XT.

I was considering picking up a 6600/6800 AGP card and adding more memory... bumping her up to 2GB.

The reason I ask this is, I just played Oblivion last night (and it looks like crap at 640x480 super low).

I use my computer mainly for photoshop, and I was considering moving to a dual core intel board for that...

Should I bother adding a decent card now or just save up for later?
 
I would just save up for a PCI-e system.
You don't really need 2GB of ram, especially for Oblivion.

Just curious, why are you thinking about going to a dual core machine with Intel over AMD?
 
B. W. said:
I would just save up for a PCI-e system.
You don't really need 2GB of ram, especially for Oblivion.

Just curious, why are you thinking about going to a dual core machine with Intel over AMD?
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conroe anyone?
 
purple_haze said:
conroe anyone?
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Naw, more like budget.

I'd just go with a Pentium D 805, then try to overclock her. I'm a poor student. Gaming performance doesn't mean the world to me, but dual core would be nice because of photoshop.

2GB may not help with oblivion, but it'll help immensely with photoshop. The question is... will a 6800GT be a decent buy/upgrade or will is it becoming outdated already?

//edit: How much does my processor matter for games? Will a A64 1.8Ghz be too slow to make use of a 6800GT?

//edit2: I will consider an A64 x2 system since it will make use of the memory I buy now. How long will DDR last? I thought DDRII was taking over... does DDRII give a major advantage? My box is a photoshop box FIRST, gaming box second.
 
the ddr2 is officially gonna be to supported with an am2 system, so... u should just get a regular amdx2 when the am2 is released with the regular ddr support. I use photoshop also and i dont really find it necessary to have a really powereful computer to run it. Ram is the most important for photoshop and the 6800gt will fit the bill nicely, if its all your doing. Gaming wise, at least u can get mids on most of the current games out now.
 
Ref photoshop, it would depend on the size of files you work on as to whether 2GB will be an advantage to you. The maximum file size I tend to use is 150Mb as I only do A4 sized work generally and I didn't notice a difference in speed between the two. There may have been an increase, quite possibly, but I didn't notice any all the same.

If you do work on a larger scale then possibly it may help in photoshop, it certainly won't hinder you ;)

BTW, I'm still using Photoshop 7. I may get round to buying CS2 at some stage, but for now I can do everything I want to in 7 (unless someone tells me of some bad ass tools in CS2 that does all your work for you, then I may reconsider :D )
 
I would prob get a 3800+ X2 and overclock that, with a 7900GT videocard, with 2gb of memory...
 
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