upgrade suggestions

fade2green514 · 05-02-2006, 04:15 AM

can anyone suggest an upgrade for my compie?
i've got a water cooling system being shipped right now, and if i want to upgrade it im gonna have to do so before college starts this coming year, i normally have no money during that part of the year... of course i got most of my parts this past year

what would you guys suggest i upgrade?

Cile · 05-02-2006, 04:22 AM

well, what kind of stuff will you be doing with your computer?

Beyond · 05-02-2006, 04:35 AM

my system is similar to your setup, and the next thing i would do is a new graphics card, followed by a better x2 processor. (graphics being much much much more important though)

then again, are you happy with what you have now? if you are, then why bother?

fade2green514 · 05-02-2006, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Beyond

my system is similar to your setup, and the next thing i would do is a new graphics card, followed by a better x2 processor. (graphics being much much much more important though)

then again, are you happy with what you have now? if you are, then why bother?

lol well, i like the video card suggestion... but the 7800gt should last me awhile
but other X2's aren't nearly as good as mine!
id need an FX-60 in order to marginally increase performance and o/cing ability.
maybe an opteron, but thats still taking a chance! i could just get a bad stepping, or a bad batch!
any other suggestions?

m0nk3ys1ms · 05-02-2006, 08:03 PM

i dont really think i would do much more with it at the moment, i would wait a year or two

Beyond · 05-02-2006, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by fade2green514

lol well, i like the video card suggestion... but the 7800gt should last me awhile
but other X2's aren't nearly as good as mine!
id need an FX-60 in order to marginally increase performance and o/cing ability.
maybe an opteron, but thats still taking a chance! i could just get a bad stepping, or a bad batch!
any other suggestions?

i've never been happy with my 7800gt. when i bought it, i knew it wouldn't play aoe3 with shader settings set at "very high".

and i don't know if you've noticed it or not, but HDR kills frame rates for me. i wonder if the newer cards do it better than our's, since the 7800 series was right when HDR was becoming popular...

Impr3ssiv3 · 05-02-2006, 11:32 PM

well if you process is good i would just get like the 7900 series vid card or one of the quatro from Nvidia(btw anyone know if these quatros are good)

[-0MEGA-] · 05-02-2006, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Impr3ssiv3

well if you process is good i would just get like the 7900 series vid card or one of the quatro from Nvidia(btw anyone know if these quatros are good)

the Quatro's are workstation cards, there not meant for gaming.

The 7900 would be better, but i dont think its worth upgrading to from a 7800GT. If you really want upgrades, i would get a nice gaming keyboard, and 2x SATAII's w/ 16MB cache in a RAID 0 array.

Beyond · 05-02-2006, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by [-0MEGA-]

the Quatro's are workstation cards, there not meant for gaming.

The 7900 would be better, but i dont think its worth upgrading to from a 7800GT. If you really want upgrades, i would get a nice gaming keyboard, and 2x SATAII's w/ 16MB cache in a RAID 0 array.

what's your idea of a "nice gaming keyboard"?

fade2green514 · 05-03-2006, 03:52 AM

yea... the gaming keyboard i've got right now is starting to crap out on me... i think its cuz i spilled some root beer soda on it awhile ago, and its finally taking its toll haha...
anyways, yea the hard drives are a nice thought too, but loading times are good enough for me right now.
but yea, the weakest parts of my system would definitely be the video card and the hard drives...
i've always thought about gettin 2x74gb raptors just for the heck of it

anyone wanna buy a 120gb hard drive?? lol theres another section in the forum for that though...

05-02-2006, 04:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
fade2green514 Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: buffalo ny Age: 19 Posts: 3,141	upgrade suggestions can anyone suggest an upgrade for my compie? i've got a water cooling system being shipped right now, and if i want to upgrade it im gonna have to do so before college starts this coming year, i normally have no money during that part of the year... of course i got most of my parts this past year what would you guys suggest i upgrade? __________________ Core 2 Duo e6300 Thermaltake big typhoon - cpu full load 43C DFI Infinity 975X Crossfire motherboard 7800gt 256mb + NV silencer 2x1gb Patriot ddr2-667 4-4-4-12 2x80gb WD 8mb sata2 in RAID 0 system drive 1x250gb Seagate 7200.9 storage drive

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05-03-2006, 03:52 AM	#10 (permalink)
fade2green514 Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: buffalo ny Age: 19 Posts: 3,141	yea... the gaming keyboard i've got right now is starting to crap out on me... i think its cuz i spilled some root beer soda on it awhile ago, and its finally taking its toll haha... anyways, yea the hard drives are a nice thought too, but loading times are good enough for me right now. but yea, the weakest parts of my system would definitely be the video card and the hard drives... i've always thought about gettin 2x74gb raptors just for the heck of it anyone wanna buy a 120gb hard drive?? lol theres another section in the forum for that though... __________________ Core 2 Duo e6300 Thermaltake big typhoon - cpu full load 43C DFI Infinity 975X Crossfire motherboard 7800gt 256mb + NV silencer 2x1gb Patriot ddr2-667 4-4-4-12 2x80gb WD 8mb sata2 in RAID 0 system drive 1x250gb Seagate 7200.9 storage drive

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05-02-2006, 11:32 PM	#7 (permalink)
Impr3ssiv3 Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,231	well if you process is good i would just get like the 7900 series vid card or one of the quatro from Nvidia(btw anyone know if these quatros are good)