give up my 6800GT for a new mb/cpu combo???

[betterkarma4519]

Hey guys, I'm pretty new here and noticebly addicted to these crazy arse forums. My current setup is as follows:

p4 2.8 (533 mhz bus)
soyo ultra platinum mb (socket 478 p4x400 chipset)
512 mb kingston pc3200 cl2.5 valueram
80 gig hard drive blah blah....

Anyhoo, I went ahead and purchased a BFG geforce 6800GT a few months ago because I had money and it was so shiny However, I'm not really getting the performance I really want with it...I figure its being bottlenecked horribly by my current setup. I was thinking of selling it now and getting an msi neo2 platinum and a athlon 64 3200+ with a gig of ram (anyone have suggestions on cheap/reliable options?), and just using my old geforce 4800 se for the time being (maybe buying am inexpensive 9800 pro in a month). Does this sound like a good idea? Would this setup provide a nice gaming performance leap? Or do you think that 939 boards and cpus will come down in a month or two and I should just wait. Thanks guys.

 

[DanDrop]

Hmmm... if you want a gaming rig then definitely go with the athlon 64 cpu/mobo combo w/ 1gig of ram.

The question is how serious of a gamer are you? The new Nforce4 boards are slowly coming out and they have a steep price tag currently. If you can wait a couple weeks/months, prices should drop a bit. However you wont be able to use you current 6800gt AGP with the Nforce4 board.

If you are in a tight budget, sell your current system, keep the 6800gt (it is a great card) and go with the current nforce3 ultra mobo with agp. my .02.

 

[ts3433]

If games aren't smooth, try doubling your RAM for starters, if what you have now is 1x512--it'll be harder to double RAM and carry it over to an A64 if it's 2x256 (IIRC, 4 DIMMs in a S939 board will not let you run DDR400). If that doesn't work, sell what you have now and get an A64; even a S754 is fine. I'd try to hang on to the 6800 GT, though.

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: betterkarma4519
Hey guys, I'm pretty new here and noticebly addicted to these crazy arse forums. My current setup is as follows:

p4 2.8 (533 mhz bus)
soyo ultra platinum mb (socket 478 p4x400 chipset)
512 mb kingston pc3200 cl2.5 valueram
80 gig hard drive blah blah....

Anyhoo, I went ahead and purchased a BFG geforce 6800GT a few months ago because I had money and it was so shiny However, I'm not really getting the performance I really want with it...I figure its being bottlenecked horribly by my current setup. I was thinking of selling it now and getting an msi neo2 platinum and a athlon 64 3200+ with a gig of ram (anyone have suggestions on cheap/reliable options?), and just using my old geforce 4800 se for the time being (maybe buying am inexpensive 9800 pro in a month). Does this sound like a good idea? Would this setup provide a nice gaming performance leap? Or do you think that 939 boards and cpus will come down in a month or two and I should just wait. Thanks guys.

It seems like that system (as is) would be dandy for games.... what are you seeing that is less than you were hoping for. (I'm not criticizing, just hoping for insight when I have to make some of the same choices you are now.)

-Sid

 

[montag451]

problem is that once you wait for the 939 pins to come down, then you might think that the fx's are coming down, and have to wait a little longer to see that.
then -
by that time, there is a new roadmap, and having a 25 Terrabyte hdd is old hat, but your 16GigaBytes of magneticRAM isnt managing to load the new Office suite as fast it should.
and the 250Gigabyte page file needs increasing!!!!
get the picture? ;-)

 

[betterkarma4519]

haha, good call....ok, thanks for the advice everyone...I think I'll sell my current setup (not the 6800GT--it makes me toooo happy)...maybe I can get someone to indulge on Ebay....you guys know anyone who might want it?..or if not, how much I should sell it for?

 

[ts3433]

Price checks aren't allowed on these forums, but you can look around and then try to sell the stuff on the FS/FT forum here or simply eBay it.