Upgrading Soon...Need Some Advice

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acphydro

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I really can't decide what to do, I'd like to spend as little money as possible, I want to go Socket939 with a 3200+ Venice and possibly OC, but I can't decide if to go PCI Express or not because I do plan on upgrading my videocard. Right now I have an ABIT KG7-RAID, 2x512MB PC3200 DDR stick of GeIL Value RAM and a Geforce4 Ti4400 video card. I can't decide really what to do. Should I stay AGP and go for a 6600GT or 6800 Vanilla? Or just go for the gold and go pcie and get a Geforce7800GT or 6800GT? I usually dont play with AA or AF therefore I'm not sure what kind of framerates I'd get out of current games like Half Life 2, FEAR, Battlefield 2 and Fable. Should a 6600GT be powerful enough to game at 1024x768 with max details? Or should I go overboard since I probably wont upgrade again for at least two years. I have a variable budget of $400-600 I could however go up to $800 I could manage but the less the better for me. I'm going to need a new CPU, motherboard, 3d card and power supply. Is a 6600GT a lot more powerful than my Ti4400 or is a 6800/7800 a HUGE jump? Your advice would be useful.

Also what kind of cheaper decent power supplies exist?

-hydro
 
id also be willing to go to intel just want at least a 2800+ 3000+ amd64 cpu equivalent
 
Yes, the 6800/7800 series is a huge jump over the Ti4400.

I'd just say go for the gold and get everything new. If you're going to keep your system for 2 years, you might as well have something that will still be running at the end rather than something that is gimping to the finish line.
 
Ive decided to go 3000+ Venice, 6800GT, but i need a stable cheap reliable motherboard...Epox boards any good? last one i had was a 7kxa i think or something like that...it sucked. Also need a decent power supply for cheaper...i like antec's but cant really afford it. ive been waiting for this time for like 2 years now...lol
 
The newer Epox motherboards are good, so I think that'd be a good route to go. You can keep your current system's RAM for now. Otherwise, looks like you made some good choices.

Edit: this is supposed to be a decent PSU. Or you could check out the FS/FT forums. You can usually find pretty good deals on stuff there.
 
hmmm thanks ill take a look at that PSU might look for a higher wattage model maybe the 430W version.
 
Here's what I've decided to go with:

Motherboard: SOLTEK SL-K890Pro-939 Socket 939 VIA K8T890 ATX

I landed on this motherboard for a few reasons, mainly its one of the very few that have an ADDITIONAL PATA controller and its still got PCI-E, judging from reviews I've read about it it gets pretty good marks, except it uses a passive cooling solution on the northbridge, I also hear it overclocks well too. I had to choose from this one and the Epox that everyone claims is an overclocking king, I mainly chose this for the extra PATA port. So hopefully it'll do me good.

Processor: AMD Athlon64 3000+ Venice

I figured since I was going to get a 3200+ and overclock it to maybe around 3800+ speeds on air or at least 3500+ speeds on air, I'd just try my luck with the $50 cheaper 3000+ and hope for the best. Intel looks to expensive else I'd get that $175.99 P4D CPU newegg has but I'd need DDR2 as well else I'd have given intel a shot.

Video Card: XFX PVT70GUDF7 Geforce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16

Really wasnt much of a brand name brawl except I wanted a more known brand than Aopen. Since it had a mail in rebate to lower it to $364, I decided just to get a 7800GT for only about $70 more than a 6800GT.

Power Supply: Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-500 ATX12V 500W Power Supply

I really couldnt decide....I never used anything but Antec before and decided I would pay up to $90 but of course I wanted to pay a little less. What's the real differences between the SmartPower and TruePower series? Should I just pay the $15 more and get a Truepower instead?

-hydro
 
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