Hey, this I hope will be a topic that gets around 30 replies hopefully, but here it goes:
My current cpu (how do you get anand to list "your rig"???):
athlon 1.2 ghz,
512 mb ram pc 133
30+40 gig hd's
geforce 4 ti 4200 128 mb VIVO from leadtek
52x cd-rom
24x10x40 cd rw
17" monitor...
I guess thats about it!
Anyway, I run some good games: unreal 2003, anything from EA, wolfenstein, whatever... hopefully the best games for a time to come,
My 3dmark score: 7777 which I am understanding, is quite low...
Anyway, I am quite poor, but I like performance, I need to know, should I be overclocking my stuff, because obviously my card is massively bound to my cpu speed as I think the 4200 gains from the cpu up until around 1700 ghz, so, is it worth it to overclock my cpu??? Should I wait for a while to do it until I really need the gains, and if I should, how do I do it?
Also, if that works, should I overclock my video card, it cost me quite a bit, so if it dies, that would be devastating...
Question #2, obviously my ram and motherboard (ak73 pro) are hurting my computers performance, so, how long should I wait until I get a motherboard that can take faster ram, do I wait until after I get a new processor???
I just want to make my computer faster, but with little cost, any creative Ideas on how to do that would be great, and why was the ati 8500 and 8500le so slow like 3 months ago, but now they are rivalrying the ti4200's??? what happened to make that so?
Anyway, its not like the 4200 got slower, so I shouldnt really care, but it still bothers me!
Dustin
My current cpu (how do you get anand to list "your rig"???):
athlon 1.2 ghz,
512 mb ram pc 133
30+40 gig hd's
geforce 4 ti 4200 128 mb VIVO from leadtek
52x cd-rom
24x10x40 cd rw
17" monitor...
I guess thats about it!
Anyway, I run some good games: unreal 2003, anything from EA, wolfenstein, whatever... hopefully the best games for a time to come,
My 3dmark score: 7777 which I am understanding, is quite low...
Anyway, I am quite poor, but I like performance, I need to know, should I be overclocking my stuff, because obviously my card is massively bound to my cpu speed as I think the 4200 gains from the cpu up until around 1700 ghz, so, is it worth it to overclock my cpu??? Should I wait for a while to do it until I really need the gains, and if I should, how do I do it?
Also, if that works, should I overclock my video card, it cost me quite a bit, so if it dies, that would be devastating...
Question #2, obviously my ram and motherboard (ak73 pro) are hurting my computers performance, so, how long should I wait until I get a motherboard that can take faster ram, do I wait until after I get a new processor???
I just want to make my computer faster, but with little cost, any creative Ideas on how to do that would be great, and why was the ati 8500 and 8500le so slow like 3 months ago, but now they are rivalrying the ti4200's??? what happened to make that so?
Anyway, its not like the 4200 got slower, so I shouldnt really care, but it still bothers me!
Dustin