Should I bother?

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Triple B

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I have a Celery 2.4ghz, 1 gig of ram and a GeForce3 Ti500. I was thinking of picking up a 7600GS agp (my mobo does 4x max :( ). It was supposedly as much as the PCIe version at CC, 149.99 (129.99 after MIR). I didn't get it, but I probably will order one online if and when I find it cheaper. Would it be worth it? I'm guessing I'll see a night and day difference from the GF3...? I don't know if I have a power supply up to snuff for what they want though. Bottom line, worth the purchase? I won't be doing a full upgrade any time soon unfortunately.
 
7600gs will be a good match.. it might be a little bit before it comes in agp.
It all depends on what you are doing with it too.. gaming, I wouldn't even bother because that celeron is going to slaughter your frames.

might be high time to get a new computer.. hell, even a cheap $400 hp or dell would slaughter your current system.
 
The agp was on the shelf yesterday here in Massachusetts. A friend just gave me this comp, I had the comp in my sig before that. This is a Northwood Celeron. Maybe for my birthday in October I'll get a new rig going, but for right now, this is basically my net/CS:S comp :) I figured for gaming, the 7600gs HAS to be better than my (insert number of generations old here) GF3 ti500 is. Pretty much when I do upgrade the comp, I'll build a monster. I'm curious of the 100 or so investment in the 7600gs would really be worth it to hold me over. Put it this way, I can't play games at all now other than CS:S because the vid card can't handle it. There are these long visual pauses that eventually (and quickly) degrade to just a black screen and a required hard boot to get out of it. Ah well. Maybe I will just wait... *shrug*
 
Triple B said:
The agp was on the shelf yesterday here in Massachusetts. A friend just gave me this comp, I had the comp in my sig before that. This is a Northwood Celeron. Maybe for my birthday in October I'll get a new rig going, but for right now, this is basically my net/CS:S comp :) I figured for gaming, the 7600gs HAS to be better than my (insert number of generations old here) GF3 ti500 is. Pretty much when I do upgrade the comp, I'll build a monster. I'm curious of the 100 or so investment in the 7600gs would really be worth it to hold me over. Put it this way, I can't play games at all now other than CS:S because the vid card can't handle it. There are these long visual pauses that eventually (and quickly) degrade to just a black screen and a required hard boot to get out of it. Ah well. Maybe I will just wait... *shrug*
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For CSS, it would be ok :)
 
wee96 said:
Celeron D or Northwood?
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From the AGP 4X board and the GeForce 3, my money is on Northwoood. Yeah, the performance sucks per clock, but at least it is one of the fastest Northwoods. Probably the equivilant of a 1.8 GHz P4 Northwood.
 
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