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Advice on viability of an upgrade sought....

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mulletgut

Senior member
Hi peeps,
I am weighing up uptions and was after some advice from someone with good knowledge of video performance and how they relate to CPU/mobo/graphics card etc.
My specs :


Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)

Motherboard:
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP, 1533 MHz (11.5 x 133) 1800+
Motherboard Name MSI KT3 Ultra2 (MS-6380E) (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 CNR, 3 DIMM, Audio)
Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8367 Apollo KT333
System Memory 512 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (07/10/02)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 6600 (256 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce 6600 AGP
Monitor Mitsubishi Diamond View 1786FD [17" CRT] (00638)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Creative SB Live! 5.1 Sound Card


I am trying to play Day Of Defeat source at a better framerate than 15 fps. I am undecided if I should flash the motherboard bios which will allow a CPU upgrade to a AMD 3000+. Is that 1.53Ghz processor my bottle-neck, or possibly the fact that the motherboard is only AGP 4X ????
Really unsure if the CPU upgrade will make the dramitic difference I'm after.
The alternative is to beg the wife for an AMD 64 - and new mobo, then do I go AGP and keep the not so great 6600, or go further and get PCI-E and a 6800GT???

I mean the later would be nice of course, but I do have a wife, 4 kids, a mortgage, 2 cars and the rest to think about - who all claim to be more important than a fps game, and therefore demand higher rating in the budgetary stakes - but anyway...........

I would love some learned advice.

Thanks for your time,

Peace
 
Maybe you can buy a 2500+ and OC it to 3000+ Levels?? Are you sure your motherbaord can support the newer xp cores?

Also, I think that you would be surprised how much a cpu upgrade would give you in terms of performance, especially at lower resolutions. I do however agree that hte GPU is limitingyou. THe 4x doesn't matter though, since all current AGP cards barely use all of the 4x bandwith.
 
Going off the information on the MSI website, the BIOS upgrade for my MoBo will allow me to upgrade to a 3000+ Barton.
Did you think that the GPU was holding me back or the CPU?
 
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