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What to upgrade?

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nappa

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Hey guys as of right now I have
Asus NFORCE2 A7N8X-X motherboard
amd 2500 barton cpu
Radeon 9600pro video card
gig of pc2700 kingston ram
80 gig hd

What do you guys think I should upgrade to be able to play Hl2 and doom3 well? I have about 400 bucks to spend and am trying to look at all my options on what to upgrade. Thanks

-Nappa
 
upgrade to a 9800pro or xt and you will be in a much better position to play the newest games.

I have almost the same setup as you (see sig) and I can run the Joint Ops demo and UT2k4 at full settings no problem.
 
1] upgrade RAM
2] upgrade VidCard

see if you can sell this existing Vid Card to generate enough $$ to buy some better RAM and a Radeon9800PRO
 
Buy a HSF (Zalman cnps7000 will work)
Sell your gig of ddr333
Buy a gig of ddr400
Overclock your 2500+ to 11x200mhz
Sell your Radeon 9600XT
Buy a 9800pro

Sell your parts on Ebay, if you can. You should be able to get a bit of money for the stuff you sell, lowering your total costs.
 
Is their a large increase in performance from pc2700 ram to 400 ddr ram? Also im going to buy a 9800 should I get a 128mb or 256 and should I go xt or not?
 
9800xt, and depending on your motherboard and what it can handle for memory, go with the fastest you can get. If you can manage PC4000, your in the clear.
 
128mb pro, it's much cheaper and almost as good. With luck you clock it to XT speeds on stock cooling anyways.

The difference between pc2700 and pc3200 is just that. DDR333 has 2.7gb/s bandwidth and DDR400 has 3.2gb/s bandwidth. In reality the differences are probably relatively small. Keep the DDR333 is you like, but if you clock your CPU up to 200mhz FSB, the ram will be out of sync with the CPU. That causes some speed reductions and such, again I'm not 100% sure how much. There was a good article on Xbit Labs about ram. Just search for some benchmarks on google.
 
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