Noob needs upgrade advice

Dreamdiver · 08-18-2005, 03:34 AM

At his time I have the following:
P4 1.5 GHZ
MSI 6529 I845 ATX mobo
512 Mb SDRAM
ATI 9600 PRO AGP
a couple of HDs
4 y.o. case with 300 power

Right now I'm not ready yet to build my dream machine, but I kinda feel I need to upgrade like NOW.... So I decided to do a minor upgrade at this time. So, I'm looking at ABIT KV7 Via Socket A Barebone Kit / AMD Athlon XP 3000+ / 512MB DDR / CPU Fan / ATX Mid-Tower Case with 400 Watt PS/ at tiger which will cost me around 300 CAD... First of all, my current mobo has only AGP x4, so this new system will let me to take a full advantage of my ATI 9600. But what about the rest of the components - am I going to feel quite a difference (worth a $300 price tag)?

This is/going to be my only home PC, so I'll be using it pretty much for everything, including gaming (lots of gaming actually) - UT2K4, BF2, HL2, DOOM3, etc, etc...

The only additional upgrade to those specs I'll be doing in a near future is purchasing another 512 DDR stick....

So..... any ideas?

Vampiric Rouge · 08-18-2005, 07:22 PM

Well if you looking at barebones I would look in to athlon 64 because lets face it 64 is the future. A 64bit system would be a nice upgrade to slowly build twords a dream pc. Thats what im doing i bought a 64bit mobo and cpu and then upgrade from there. Like over time build it. I would say deffently get more ram in nothing else.

alanuofm · 08-18-2005, 07:26 PM

the agp 8x/4x is an increase in the lower single digit percentage improvement. the 9600 will not perform that well in the latest games regardless.

08-18-2005, 03:34 AM	#1 (permalink)
Dreamdiver New Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1	Noob needs upgrade advice At his time I have the following: P4 1.5 GHZ MSI 6529 I845 ATX mobo 512 Mb SDRAM ATI 9600 PRO AGP a couple of HDs 4 y.o. case with 300 power Right now I'm not ready yet to build my dream machine, but I kinda feel I need to upgrade like NOW.... So I decided to do a minor upgrade at this time. So, I'm looking at ABIT KV7 Via Socket A Barebone Kit / AMD Athlon XP 3000+ / 512MB DDR / CPU Fan / ATX Mid-Tower Case with 400 Watt PS/ at tiger which will cost me around 300 CAD... First of all, my current mobo has only AGP x4, so this new system will let me to take a full advantage of my ATI 9600. But what about the rest of the components - am I going to feel quite a difference (worth a $300 price tag)? This is/going to be my only home PC, so I'll be using it pretty much for everything, including gaming (lots of gaming actually) - UT2K4, BF2, HL2, DOOM3, etc, etc... The only additional upgrade to those specs I'll be doing in a near future is purchasing another 512 DDR stick.... So..... any ideas?

08-18-2005, 07:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
Vampiric Rouge Platinum Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New Jersey Age: 21 Posts: 613	Well if you looking at barebones I would look in to athlon 64 because lets face it 64 is the future. A 64bit system would be a nice upgrade to slowly build twords a dream pc. Thats what im doing i bought a 64bit mobo and cpu and then upgrade from there. Like over time build it. I would say deffently get more ram in nothing else. __________________ MAIN PC: Intel G965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard\ Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Conroe\4gigs of samsung ddr2 ram @ 667\Antec neo 480watt power supply\Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT Voltmoded\430 gigs of HDD space all maxtor @ 7200rpm,and 80 gigs of samsung @ 7200 but only 2m\Benq FP202W 20.1" 8ms Widescreen LCD\ RAZOR copperhead\ flexglow gaming mousepad Laptop: HP Pavilion DV1000\Pent M 1.73 Ghz\ 1GB Ram\ 100 Gig HDD

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08-18-2005, 07:26 PM	#3 (permalink)
alanuofm Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,630	the agp 8x/4x is an increase in the lower single digit percentage improvement. the 9600 will not perform that well in the latest games regardless.