Recent content by sil0nt2

Thanks for the additional replies. I am now citing my sources for the information I found last night. If you look carefully at the given benchmarks, it appears as though the GF3 Ti 500 outperforms the 8500 in almost every aspect when paired with an Athlon 800-1000. Also, the GF3 seems do a...

Thanks for the help guys. I did some digging in the Video Article Archives and I found an UT2k3 CPU Scaling article. It proved to be extremely helpful. Given the graphs that I saw, the best "bang for the buck" card that will give me good peformance with a 1.0ghz and scale up to modern CPU...

I have come to the realization that I simply cannot run modern games on my system. I am not an avid gamer, but occasionally I do like to load up the latest RTS or FPS and actually be able to play it. I am looking for a cheap upgrade, and I have a feeling the only thing I can do is buy a new...