what part should I upgrade?

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here's my setup

Intel 2.8C
Abit IC7-G MAX2
Scythe Ninja with 120x30 Panaflo(HUGE AIR!)
Corsair TwinX 2gb (2x1gb)
X850pro modded to XT
viewsonic VA1912wb(1440x900)


Im looking to spend about $300 hoping to tide me over until next fall when my next build is scheduled. I currently play company of heroes, HL2 and its many source counterparts, supreme commander beta(when it works), oblivion, and will be looking to play C&C3, supcom, and even crysis when they come out. I know those will require DX10 to look good but I think they will be fine for me until I can replay them in the fall.

What upgrade would do me the most good?

X1950pro
processor upgrade(if so which one can I get now?)

thanks!
 
You're kind of stuck. your board doesn't support conroes, and that x1950 is pci express, which you also don't have.

Your next upgrade will have to be big one, because you'll need a conroe ready mobo, new cpu, DDR2 ram, AND a pci express video card. Start saving.

You could possibly get away with the asrock 775dual (agp/pcie and ddr1/ddr2 and conroe ready). however, pcie on that board sucks hard, limited to 4x, and you'd still need new ram and gpu to take full advantage of that chip.
 
someone in the fs/t forum has a 7800gs co for 225 (agp)
i know someone's making an x19xx for agp too.
 
Save up for conroe/a new mobo/ram/PCI-E video card.

Another great option is a socket 939 motherboard + X2 processor or Opteron 165. This way, you keep your ram. Either way, you will need to save a bit.
 
well, I was talking about the x1950pro AGP version coming out... my real question in if I get that card, will my cpu bottleneck it too much. I know its going to be somewhat of a bottleneck, but will it be that bad?
 
I don't think it'll be that bad of a bottleneck, but it is still AGP. AGP is the performance limiter here, not your CPU. I also don't think the X1950Pro AGP is worth buying. I'd tough it out with the X850 until I could afford a major upgrade.
 
For sure, an x1950 pro on AGP will give you the largest performance increase.
Your CPU is a bit slow for the modern cards but you will really like the extra performance from the graphics card.

AGP wont be a bottleneck unless you cant run at 8x.
 
Chernobyl1 said:
AGP wont be a bottleneck unless you cant run at 8x.
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I didn't mean AGP was a bottleneck for the X1950Pro (or even the 7800GS), I just meant it limited performance in general when it comes to high end gaming. A 7800GS can't even do 100FPS in HL2 at 1600x1200 w/o eyecandy (or even 1280x1024!) :(
 
I wondered if that was what you meant but thought I'd best clear it up :)

If the AGP part is a restricted version of the PCI-E part then lesser performance can be expected.
There are full PCI-E parts running on AGP that give similar performance, hopefully the X1950pro will be the full unrestricted version.
 
thanks... I guess I'll try to get some people to bind together and get the X1950pro for me for christmas. (between that and an X360 but I don't have a high def screen) I got the x850 last christmas, I could probably sell it to a friend for $100-130 and buy the X1950 with christmas money.
 
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