I know this would fit better in the FS group but posting here is a lot nicer and I can ask questions and you guys will answer with kindness in regards to the reality that I no longer am on the cutting edge of PC's.
My son Peter is going to be 16 soon and is really showing a lot of progress in computer science.
He took intro to Comp Science last year and video game design and this year is in AP Computer Science. He's doing very well and has been asked by the teachers if he would tutor the 'slower' kids.
He asked if he could have a computer in his room and I gave him my old desktop machine, the best thing about that one is it comes with a pretty nice 27" LED monitor.
The not so nice part is it's a Prescott based motherboard, only recognizes 3.25GB memory no matter what you put in it and has AGP graphics, so no nice new video cards can pull it out of very low framerate land when he wants to play games.
He can work on it, but he would like to use it to play on as well.
So - I'm considering options.
There are some AGP video cards out there that might just do the trick, like the AMD (ATI) 4670.
The Prescott cpu in it runs great all day long at 4.0 Ghz with hyperthreading and I think the memory would not be a bottleneck if he had a faster video card, his games do start and run - but slowly.
I don't want to spend a lot of money, so the forklift upgrade of motherboard, cpu, memory, video card and PSU would be my last option.
Hit me with ideas please.
This system was my home DC rig for many many years, it would be nice to see it continue for a couple more.
My son Peter is going to be 16 soon and is really showing a lot of progress in computer science.
He took intro to Comp Science last year and video game design and this year is in AP Computer Science. He's doing very well and has been asked by the teachers if he would tutor the 'slower' kids.
He asked if he could have a computer in his room and I gave him my old desktop machine, the best thing about that one is it comes with a pretty nice 27" LED monitor.
The not so nice part is it's a Prescott based motherboard, only recognizes 3.25GB memory no matter what you put in it and has AGP graphics, so no nice new video cards can pull it out of very low framerate land when he wants to play games.
He can work on it, but he would like to use it to play on as well.
So - I'm considering options.
There are some AGP video cards out there that might just do the trick, like the AMD (ATI) 4670.
The Prescott cpu in it runs great all day long at 4.0 Ghz with hyperthreading and I think the memory would not be a bottleneck if he had a faster video card, his games do start and run - but slowly.
I don't want to spend a lot of money, so the forklift upgrade of motherboard, cpu, memory, video card and PSU would be my last option.
Hit me with ideas please.
This system was my home DC rig for many many years, it would be nice to see it continue for a couple more.
