Doom 3 runs very poorly. Video Card upgrade help needed!!!

I think i'll upgrade with:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz Socket 939 Processor
Nvidia Geforce 8600GTS
1GB DDR Memory

I hope the differences are noticeable. Hoping to upgrade sometime in Feb 2008. Thanks guys!!!:)
 
Goody. :) They're are officially named as "server chips", and they work mighty fine in a server build. But in actuality they are 5600+ toledo chips that have been stress-tested, undervolted, and underclocked. They are very stable, and as I said above, imperatively good at overclocking.

Just alittle background on the chip, everyone likes that.
 
I'm really looking forward to this upgrade:
AMD Opteron 185 Denmark 2.6GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket 939 Dual Core Processor
Nvidia Geforce 8600GTS
1GB DDR Memory
Power supply? someone educate me...
 
All that would require a 350-400 watt PSU, with 18-20 amperes on the +12v line. You could go higher, but that would only impact on future upgrades, it certainly won't help the system run stabler, or better.

Edit: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817174019 Something like this would be perfect, yet if you ever choose to upgrade to more current hungry card it may require a new PSU upgrade. Got this specimen from Ceewi1's recommendations so you know it's good :)
 
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Doom 3 runs fine on a AMD 64 single core remember doom 3 came out before dual core was available and is only dual core with a patch. Your graphics card is no where near good enough. Is your motherboard AGP or PCI express?
 
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CG man said:
Doom 3 runs fine on a AMD 64 single core remember doom 3 came out before dual core was available and is only dual core with a patch. Your graphics card is no where near good enough. Is your motherboard AGP or PCI express?
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AGP???? PCI express yes I dont know much about computers but slowly i am learning from the time i joined the forums:D
 
CG man said:
Doom 3 runs fine on a AMD 64 single core remember doom 3 came out before dual core was available and is only dual core with a patch. Your graphics card is no where near good enough. Is your motherboard AGP or PCI express?
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very true it runs on high with good frame rates on my system in my sig
 
If that was a question, AGP=Accelerated graphics port. Utilizing a 66mhz bus it effectively doubled bandwidth of the old PCI slot, and was used solely for graphics related peripherals. AGP also increased output by "strobing" the clock a certain number of times similar to what an oscillator crystal does with CPU multipliers. It is surpassed in performance by PCI-e, but still has a semi large user base and good performance by it's own rights. Given this, it's still old, and should never be solely implemented into a new build.

I'm a like an encyclopedia man... :D
 
Tma20SC said:
AGP???? PCI express yes I dont know much about computers but slowly i am learning from the time i joined the forums:D
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PCI - White
AGP - Brown

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Types of PCI-E. Yours is the last one

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ISA - Black

^^^Types of interfaces....
 
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