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Sean
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 Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:01 am Post subject: need thoughts :) |
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Hi,
I've been a bit out of the hardware world for a while now and so much has
changed.. I currently have a P4 3ghz machine with 1gig ram and Radeon 9800.
Am noticing that games are starting to come out that I can't even play on
low settings (eg Gothic III - however I think in this case its probably lack
of memory) .. maybe time for an upgrade?
Had a quick squizz around.. looks like PCI-express and DDR2 are all the bang
now so I tentatively picked the following:
CPU: Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Mobo: MSI K9N4 Ultra-F, NVIDIAŽ nForce 500 Ultra, 4x SATAII (with RAID 0, 1,
0+1), 1 x ATA133
Ram: OCZ 2gb DDR2 667
Video: Powercolor ATI Radeon X1950Pro 256MB Arctic Cooling Version. 2x DVI.
HDTV/VIVO PCIE
Questions, is this a good rig? (price and performance) .. will it be much
better than what I originally had? . .any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any info,
Sean |
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philo
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:05 am Post subject: Re: need thoughts :) |
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"Sean" <sean@NOSPAMgrieve.com.au> wrote in message
news:45a42f4d$0$22063$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
| Quote: | Hi,
I've been a bit out of the hardware world for a while now and so much has
changed.. I currently have a P4 3ghz machine with 1gig ram and Radeon
9800.
Am noticing that games are starting to come out that I can't even play on
low settings (eg Gothic III - however I think in this case its probably
lack
of memory) .. maybe time for an upgrade?
Had a quick squizz around.. looks like PCI-express and DDR2 are all the
bang
now so I tentatively picked the following:
CPU: Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Mobo: MSI K9N4 Ultra-F, NVIDIAŽ nForce 500 Ultra, 4x SATAII (with RAID 0,
1,
0+1), 1 x ATA133
Ram: OCZ 2gb DDR2 667
Video: Powercolor ATI Radeon X1950Pro 256MB Arctic Cooling Version. 2x
DVI.
HDTV/VIVO PCIE
Questions, is this a good rig? (price and performance) .. will it be much
better than what I originally had? . .any other suggestions?
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I'm sure that will be a good machine...
but why not go all the way and get a quad care
heck that's only $3,000 -$5,000 !
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| Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:43 am Post subject: Re: need thoughts :) |
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:11:56 +0900, "Sean" <sean@NOSPAMgrieve.com.au>
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| Quote: | Hi,
I've been a bit out of the hardware world for a while now and so much has
changed.. I currently have a P4 3ghz machine with 1gig ram and Radeon 9800.
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That's nothing to sneeze at, pretty good really. Plenty of memory, the
P4 @ 3GHz is fine. Is it a hyperthreading P4? if so, is hyperthreading
enabled in XP? What's the FSB speed?
| Quote: | Am noticing that games are starting to come out that I can't even play on
low settings (eg Gothic III - however I think in this case its probably lack
of memory) .. maybe time for an upgrade?
Had a quick squizz around.. looks like PCI-express and DDR2 are all the bang
now so I tentatively picked the following:
CPU: Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Mobo: MSI K9N4 Ultra-F, NVIDIAŽ nForce 500 Ultra, 4x SATAII (with RAID 0, 1,
0+1), 1 x ATA133
Ram: OCZ 2gb DDR2 667
Video: Powercolor ATI Radeon X1950Pro 256MB Arctic Cooling Version. 2x DVI.
HDTV/VIVO PCIE
Questions, is this a good rig? (price and performance) .. will it be much
better than what I originally had? . .any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any info,
Sean
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Sean
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:20 am Post subject: Re: need thoughts :) |
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<sdeyoreo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:11:56 +0900, "Sean" <sean@NOSPAMgrieve.com.au
wrote:
Hi,
I've been a bit out of the hardware world for a while now and so much has
changed.. I currently have a P4 3ghz machine with 1gig ram and Radeon
9800.
That's nothing to sneeze at, pretty good really. Plenty of memory, the
P4 @ 3GHz is fine. Is it a hyperthreading P4? if so, is hyperthreading
enabled in XP? What's the FSB speed?
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Yeh, the P4 3ghz isn't a bad cpu.. the problem I had is that I only have 1
gig of ram and a radeon 9800.. to keep the p4 I would have to upgrade to
another agp card and get more DDR ram (not DDR2) .. seemed a bit backward..
thought it would be better to upgrade to PCI-e and DDR2 to keep up with the
flow of technology, and put the p4 mobo and cpu into my mythtv box (it'll be
sooo happy for the upgrade - currently Athlon XP 2000+)
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Sean |
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