Conroe Question

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kickerz29

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I'm planning to upgrade my computer in the near future, and I've read that Conroe is goign to be a pretty big bang for your buck.

So i was wondering, since i'm on a budget, is it worth buying the lower-end Core 2 Duo which is 1.83ghz, 2mb L2 and 183$.

Will I be better off buying a different cpu for ~180$, or is Conroe the best choice for me.

It's probably noteworthy that I play a few games as well as multi-task.

Im currently on a 1.7ghz p4. Obviously i'll need a new motherboard, are the ones compatible with Conroe goign to be expensive?
 
not very expensive
and i think getting the Conroe is the right choice
it's my personal opinion
 
Yes it would be my choice too. On the mobo, I have seen on another thread that they have found a mobo for $60 that can run conroe. This mobo have 1x agp and 1x pic-e x16 and 4x pci slots.
 
If the max you can spend is 180 then Conroe would be the best choice.

That motherboard is nice for a budget, it probably has an AGP 4x/8x.

If it has pci-e 16x then I would buy a card for that.
 
bigsaucybob said:
That motherboard is nice for a budget, it probably has an AGP 4x/8x.

If it has pci-e 16x then I would buy a card for that.
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The one he's talking about supports DDR/DDR2, and AGP/PCI-E.
 
Awesome

This is great news, because I indeed have a PCI-E ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.

At least I hope I do, I'm pretty sure it was on the box when i bought it.

Any way to check?

Also, the RAM shouldn't cost too much should it?
 
kickerz29 said:
This is great news, because I indeed have a PCI-E ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.

At least I hope I do, I'm pretty sure it was on the box when i bought it.
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No, you don't - there's no such card. ATI's entire 9 series was AGP only.

Any way to check?
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Start -> Run -> dxdiag -> Display will tell you which video card you have, CPU_Z can tell you your interface. Take a look at Questions 101.

That board's performance is reasonably poor, but it's well priced, and will support your video card regardless of its interface.
 
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It won't be great on modern games, but will last you for a while if you're on a tight budget, provided you're happy with low-medium settings on newer games. If you can afford ~$140 for a 7600GT, it would be a great upgrade.

One of the benefits of that board is that you can keep your current card for now, and upgrade to a PCI-E card at any point in the future.
 
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How come it's not a good card? I bought it for $200 2 years ago.

But I don't have money in my budget for a new video card right now.
 
That's the nature of computers, they outdate quickly. 9800Pros are somewhat inferior to 6600GTs, which are in turn inferior to 7600GSs (sub-$100 cards).
 
ceewi1 said:
No, you don't - there's no such card. ATI's entire 9 series was AGP only.
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Don't you mean AGP and PCI only? They do have PCI versions of the 9000/9200, as well as some later models I believe.

But you are correct in saying that there were no PCI-E versions made available./
 
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