I do not know what is best

kverve

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Nov 20, 2004
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I am writing this in respect of a friend so do not get confused by my system,

He has an Athlon XP 2700+ on an ASUS A7N8X Delux mb Rev 2 and an fx6800 Leadteck. His memory is a bit crap though it is a noname DDR PC 2700 512Mb and he can not overclock his processor due to memory dumps when the memory freq exceeds the 175Mhz mark.

His 6800 I think is CPU limitted because in all new games like CS Source he gets less than 70fps average in Action

What he is thinking of doing is either to buy a 3200+AMD processor and keep this memory and run it asynchronously or to buy a better memory chip like an OCZ 512 pc 3200 and overclock his current cpu.

He has no money to replace both!

Personally I think the better solution is the CPU since it is cheaper from the memory.

Whith which combination would you think he would have better results?

I am telling him for the CPU upgrade since even his crappy memory he can still run it at 175x2=350Mhz

What would you suggest?

Thanx in advance!!!
 

CraigRT

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Jun 16, 2000
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hard to say, perhaps he can just wait for a little while and buy the cpu/mb/memory? you can get that stuff pretty cheap. an A64 3000+ will cure any CPU limiting problems he is having right now.

But whats wrong with 70fps? I mean that would buy ME some time.. cause afterall that's almost 2x what the naked eye can see... LOL