I need some advice!

[Lorn]

I need some advice on a system right now. Bottom line - I want to be able to play Battlefield 2 and CS:S on a 200FPW with good details and steady frame rates. I don't need to multitask, I don't need to do any hard work on it... just games. I have a Mac to do all of my work on so this is strictly gaming. Because of that same reason I'm a bit budget concious; I don't want to spend a grand so that I can play some computer games.

That said, here's what I have.

AMD Sempron 2800+ s754
ECS 755-A2 s754 Motherboard
eVGA 6800 Ultra AGP

I haven't yet seen how this works yet because I don't have any RAM to put in it. Will this suffice? Should I go ahead and purchase...

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice
MSI K8N Neo4 Motherboard

...to go with a X850XT PCI-e I have?

If the Sempron system will work great with the 6800 Ultra I'll go ahead and finish that system and sell the X850XT. If you guys don't think that this will suffice and I should go ahead with the s939/PCI-e system I'll do that and sell off the rest.

Thanks for any help.

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

The Sempron will hold the 6800ultra back tremendously. The AMD64 3000+ Venice will usually (not always of course) give you around 400mghrtz overclock on stock voltage at least and it will help ease the bottleneck for your existing X850XT which should give you a 200FPW. Plus you have the 939 PCI-ex for future upgrades. The 6800Ultra will be faster than the X800XT but not by a lot and you will defintely get better performance from the overclocked 3000+ Venice and MSI motherboard.

 

[sangyup81]

Originally posted by: michaelpatrick33
The Sempron will hold the 6800ultra back tremendously. The AMD64 3000+ Venice will usually (not always of course) give you around 400mghrtz overclock on stock voltage at least and it will help ease the bottleneck for your existing X850XT which should give you a 200FPW. Plus you have the 939 PCI-ex for future upgrades. The 6800Ultra will be faster than the X800XT but not by a lot and you will defintely get better performance from the overclocked 3000+ Venice and MSI motherboard.

The stock Sempron would hold him back but not if he got it overclocked to 2.4ghz or higher. Now we have to worry about that motherboard.