Upgrade help

[jman15]

didn't knwo which forum to put this but for 2 days i have been asking questions and what not and now i think i finally got some concrete information to help you guys help me.

These are the stats of my motherboard:

Intel® Desktop Board D845GERG2 (cpuz tells me it shoudl be gerg3 but that apparently does nto exist and gerg2 looks and has the same stuff as mine)

Intel® Desktop Board D845GERG2

The Intel® Desktop Board D845GERG2 supports the Intel® D845GE chipset featuring Intel® Extreme Graphics. You can experience improved visual effects and graphical accuity, as well as ultimate flexibility, with the advanced performance of this board.
Intel® Desktop Board D845GERG2 Features
Form Factor microATX (9.60 inches by 8.20 inches)



Processor
Support for an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor in a µPGA478 socket with a 400/533 MHz system bus
Support for an Intel® Celeron® processor in a µPGA478 socket with a 400 MHz system bus



Memory
Two 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets
Support for single-sided or double-sided DIMMs (DDR 333/266)
Support for up to 2 GB† system memory



Chipset Intel® 845GE Chipset
Audio Audio subsystem for AC '97 processing using the Analog Devices AD1981B codec featuring SoundMAX Cadenza



Video
Intel® Extreme Graphics controller
AGP connector supporting 1x, 2x, and 4x AGP cards (1.5 V only) or an AGP Digital Display (ADD) card
Integrated retention mechanism


I/O Control SMSC LPC47M172 LPC Bus I/O controller



Peripheral Interfaces
Up to six USB ports
One serial port
One parallel port
Two IDE interfaces with Ultra DMA 33 and ATA-66/100 support
One diskette drive interface
PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports
Three fan connectors
Expansion Capabilities Three PCI bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to PCI bus connector 2)




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Power supply info:
Model
NPS 150CB-1 A REV: S1

AC Input Voltage
115V/230V

Frequency
Normal 50/60 Hz

Manufacturer
Newton Power Ltd.

Wattage
160 Watt

Input current
4 A @ 115 VAC / 2 A @ 230 VAC


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Question:
Can this motherboard support a geforce5700, 6600, or ati radeon 9800pro (i can only go up to agp 4x)

Question:
Where can i find the proc on my motherboard. It says on the sight i can upgrade max to an intel p4 3.06ghz

Question:
Obviously i need a power supply upgrade. I found a 350w on ebay and i am pretty sure it will fit into my comptuer after checking the dimensions, it seems the power supply has the same dimensions as mine. The question is, is there a certain limit to the wattage my computer can handle?

Question: Is it worth investing time into a motehrbaord that can support agp 8x or should this suit my needs?

Question: Would it be worht having 1.5gigs of ram insteead of my current 766?



Info to help you answer my questions about computer use!
I like to game, i would like to play games like battle for middle eartm ut2k4, coutner strike, POSSIBLY half life an doom 3. However i am not the kinda guy who needs to run a game on the highest settings. What upgrades would suit this computer (if any) to run games like mentioned above at say a medium quality setting and run them well.

 

[Cromewell]

Can this motherboard support a geforce5700, 6600, or ati radeon 9800pro (i can only go up to agp 4x)

I would think that they would be ok

Where can i find the proc on my motherboard. It says on the sight i can upgrade max to an intel p4 3.06ghz

Open the case, you can't miss it. It will have the big heatsink with the fan on it

Is it worth investing time into a motehrbaord that can support agp 8x or should this suit my needs?

Yes and no. A motherboard with 8x support will support faster RAM as well as a slightly faster processor.

Would it be worht having 1.5gigs of ram insteead of my current 766?

What you have should be plenty

 

[Praetor]

Can this motherboard support a geforce5700, 6600, or ati radeon 9800pro (i can only go up to agp 4x)

As long as its a 1.5V card

Where can I find the proc on my motherboard. It says on the sight I can upgrade max to an intel p4 3.06ghz

Most stores will be able to get it for you

The question is, is there a certain limit to the wattage my computer can handle?

No. it draws what it needs

is it worth investing time into a motehrbaord that can support agp 8x or should this suit my needs?

probably but youd then want to buy a different processor ... depends on the budget really

Would it be worht having 1.5gigs of ram insteead of my current 766?

On the current mobo, yes. On a new mobo, yes only because you wouldnt be running dual channel