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da5id
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 Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 7:47 am Post subject: What to upgrade |
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Hi,
I recently received a Christmas bonus and would like to upgrade ether my
Processor or my graphic card. I can't afford both so I have to choose. My
system now is:
Asus P4B 533
P4 2 Gig
512 DDR Ram
80 Gig Hardrive
Geforce 3 64
I play quite a few games as well as Graphic Apps. I'm thinking upgrading my
Processor to a P4 3.06 533 or Graphics card to a Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
or a GeForce FX5900-LX 128MB.
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Nick Le Lievre
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 8:39 am Post subject: Re: What to upgrade |
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"da5id" <processedcrap@yourmail.com> wrote in message
news:2LQAb.599674$9l5.373853@pd7tw2no...
| Quote: | Hi,
I recently received a Christmas bonus and would like to upgrade ether my
Processor or my graphic card. I can't afford both so I have to choose. My
system now is:
Asus P4B 533
P4 2 Gig
512 DDR Ram
80 Gig Hardrive
Geforce 3 64
I play quite a few games as well as Graphic Apps. I'm thinking upgrading
my
Processor to a P4 3.06 533 or Graphics card to a Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
or a GeForce FX5900-LX 128MB.
Thanks
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Depends what type of games you play but one w/o the other will not raise
your overall games performance greatly. A 2ghz P4 powering a Radeon 9800 Pro
really would not do it justice by that I mean there will be people with much
faster perhaps overclocked CPU and cheap as chips graphics cards such as
Ti4200 picked up s/h getting higher performance.
The money is probably best spend on a new gfx card as CPUs can be
overclocked (although Im not saying yours is a prime overclocker or that
your board is) you can also overclock graphics cards but you can`t buy a
card for £ 100 and overclock to give exactly the performance of the £ 200
card well not as is often easily the case with overclocking CPU.
What I would do is look into getting a cheap overclockable CPU perhaps a
celeron ? and o/c to 3ghz + if poss for as little as poss and also get the
gfx card. I have a XP 1700 running at 2ghz which cost £ 35 6 months ago and
a Ti4200 clocked higher then default Ti4400 s/h costing £ 65 6 months ago
and my overclocked £ 100 stable system gets me approx 12000 3D Mark 2001se.
There`s people who are quite happily running expensive Radeon 9800 £ 200 in
an old 1.2ghz system only scoring a little higher then that and they paid £
200 just for the gfx card. |
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Gary Tait
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:03 pm Post subject: Re: What to upgrade |
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On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 01:47:42 GMT, "da5id" <processedcrap@yourmail.com>
wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
I recently received a Christmas bonus and would like to upgrade ether my
Processor or my graphic card. I can't afford both so I have to choose. My
system now is:
Asus P4B 533
P4 2 Gig
512 DDR Ram
80 Gig Hardrive
Geforce 3 64
I play quite a few games as well as Graphic Apps. I'm thinking upgrading my
Processor to a P4 3.06 533 or Graphics card to a Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
or a GeForce FX5900-LX 128MB.
Thanks
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IMO video card. |
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da5id
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:35 pm Post subject: Re: What to upgrade |
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| Thanks for the input. I'm picking up a Radeon 9800 Pro today! |
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We Live For The One We Di
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 2:59 pm Post subject: Re: What to upgrade |
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You could put the money in the bank and start saving ?
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 16:35:12 GMT, "da5id" <processedcrap@yourmail.com>
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| Quote: | Thanks for the input. I'm picking up a Radeon 9800 Pro today!
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da5id
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 8:19 am Post subject: Re: What to upgrade |
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Well, $2,500.00 of my bonus did make it to my bank account. I think I know
how to save. |
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