Whats my system bottleneck?

S

silentnswift

Limp Gawd
Joined
Jul 18, 2005
Messages
262
I have a:
Athlon XP 2400+ (2ghz)
512 PC133 SDRAM
Radeon 9200 (128 bit edition)

If I upgraded my card to a 6600GT, would the SDRAM bottleneck it at all? Im pretty sure my procceser is fast enough.
 
the motherboard/ram/gfx card but you could upgrade to a gf 4 ti 4600 before I'd bet your ram/mobo would bottleneck any gfx card.

~Adam
 
Man, now it looks like i have to upgrade to a new motherboard. Since AGP still has a lot of life left (after reading so many posts im sticking to that opinion), my next move should be to get a new motherboard w/ DDR Ram right? Possibly a AMD 64 if i can afford it?
 
If you can give us how much you can spend, we can give you some ideas on what will work well.
 
what mobo is that????
I cant recall any mobo that supports both PC133 and any processor that high in GHz
at least stock, must have been some tenacious BIOS updating going on
of course just because I dont recall it doesnt make it so :p

the answer would be your chipset is likely the bottleneck specifically the northbridge
(effecting both the RAM and AGP)
 
Let's not be hastey on this subject of AGP being here for too long, it looks like you dont upgrade much but every 4 or 5 years and in 3 years agp will be hastilly on its way out, if not two years.

I think PCIE if you are buying a new motherboard anyway is a good idea.

~Adam
 
I doubt i have more than around 200 to spend, so I am thinking of keeping my 9200 for the time being, and upgrading to a Athlon 64 , 939 Motherboard, and DDR Ram, even if thats possible. That will make upgrading to a PCI-E system MUCH easier. Now Ice Czar, lol funny you ask, my motherboard only supports up to 1.4ghz, plus it only supports Athlon regular, NOT XP.Now I got this comp as a gift, and I wondered the same thing, if I received the right Motherboard manual from my dads friend. But check this out

Motherboard
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP, 2000 MHz (15 x 133) 2400+
Motherboard Name Soyo K7VTA Pro (1 ISA, 5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DIMM, Audio)
Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8363A Apollo KT133A
System Memory 512 MB (SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (09/09/02)

http://www.soyogroup.com/products/proddesc.php?id=255
This is my Motherboard, and if anyone can figure out how this guy did it, then you will save me a lot of time : )
 
and upgrading to a Athlon 64 , 939 Motherboard, and DDR Ram
Click to expand...

No offense, but it ain't gonna happen...we could do socket 754 if you really want a performance upgrade, or you can save up some more $$$.
 
http://www.soyogroup.com/kb/kbdesc.php?id=16&PHPSESSID=0d8892c9df2f68fa10f3c290bdfbf8bd

well if its a K7VTA-Pro V1.0
you can support a XP/Throughbred 2600+ w\ a 266MHz Bus Processor
a Palamino 2100+
Thunderbird 1.4GHz or Duron 1.3GHz

and yes thats likely some mighty fancy BIOS upgrading
you'd check the version number of the board on the board istelf
if it just the K7VTA-Pro and not v1.0 the support drops to 2100+ of a XP/Thoughbred

when that board was orignially designed it was T-Birds era and for some reason they artificially kept it in production and upgraded it to suport faster processors without switching up to DDR support
 
Ok, well i guess I'll save up and and try it at 300. The AGP 939pin Motherboards aren't too much, so $300 will do the trick. Also, would the software I have (Everest Home Edition) specify if it was a Pro 1.0V ? It doesnt seem to say so, and I could have sworn in the manual I lost it only supported up to 2100+. But I was wondering, since there is a newer BIOS version than the one I currently have, is it worth upgrading the BIOS because if it is a Non-Pro 1.0V motherboard, will it mess up all the BIOS upgrading that it took to support this procceser?
 
can't help too much on the mobo, but:

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=A64-3000BP
Venice 3000+ $120

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146532
Crucial Value DDR400 512mb $45 (get two for $90 total)

That's $210 + your mobo, good luck. And if you get a free pci-e graphics card or something, here's a pretty good pci-e mobo for $90:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136160

and just so you know, here's a free keyboard with purchase of a motherboard (month end sale):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16823126164
Pretty nice, 11 function keys.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top