Need help with 700mhz P3.

[Apocalypse23]

Hi everyone, im new here. I have a 700 mhz Pentium 3 processor and 256 Mb sdram pc 100. I have an intel i810e motherboard that supports a maximum of 512 mb sd ram, to which i am upgrading soon. I bought a 64 mb Geforce 4 M440 Sdram PCI card, which works fine. I want to know how i can overclock my computer. I have 100 GB of total harddrive space--a Maxtor 80 gb 7200rpm drive and a fujitsu 20 gb 5400rpm. I want to know how i can overclock and totally upgrade this computer to the maximum. I tried running Soldier of Fortune 2 on full graphics and it isn't very smooth. Is it because of my ram or my processor speed? I am confused as to how to make mey computer to run games smoothly with good graphics. I am willing to upgrade to 512 ram, however i don't know if that would improve the graphics performance. Also, how can i overclock the processor and to what maximum speed.

Thanks

 

[McArra]

Wellcome to the forum!!!!
Well, that system is really limited for gaming and I supose it´s better to upgrade MoBo, CPU, RAM and Graphic card than buying something for it. Anyway, if you want to keep that system for gaming, then you should buy some memory and overclock it, but I don´t really know how a P3 can be overclocked as I only have done it with a 2500XP.

 

[rommelrommel]

Using a PCI vid card is absolutely going to kill you in graphics intensive games... I know it sucks but an upgrade might be in order.

Really, you could get:

Nforce2 board ($80)
Xp1700+ ($44)
SK-7 ($15)
256mb PC2700/3200 ($30)
Geforce4 4200ti ($100)
$269 total

You should get over $100 out of what you have used, so it's a reasonably priced upgrade. Anything you can do with what you have is going to be poor in games due to the lack of AGP.

 

[rogue1979]

Originally posted by: rommelrommel
Using a PCI vid card is absolutely going to kill you in graphics intensive games... I know it sucks but an upgrade might be in order.

Really, you could get:

Nforce2 board ($80)
Xp1700+ ($44)
SK-7 ($15)
256mb PC2700/3200 ($30)
Geforce4 4200ti ($100)
$269 total

You should get over $100 out of what you have used, so it's a reasonably priced upgrade. Anything you can do with what you have is going to be poor in games due to the lack of AGP.

Excellent suggestion!

 

[rogue1979]

Originally posted by: rommelrommel
Using a PCI vid card is absolutely going to kill you in graphics intensive games... I know it sucks but an upgrade might be in order.

Really, you could get:

Nforce2 board ($80)
Xp1700+ ($44)
SK-7 ($15)
256mb PC2700/3200 ($30)
Geforce4 4200ti ($100)
$269 total

You should get over $100 out of what you have used, so it's a reasonably priced upgrade. Anything you can do with what you have is going to be poor in games due to the lack of AGP.

Excellent suggestion!

If your board supports a 133MHz fsb you could overclock the 700 to 933MHz. But you will probably need to upgrade your ram, most PC-100 won't make the 133MHz fsb speed. Might as well upgrade to the good choice posted above.

 

[McArra]

Originally posted by: rommelrommel
Using a PCI vid card is absolutely going to kill you in graphics intensive games... I know it sucks but an upgrade might be in order.

Really, you could get:

Nforce2 board ($80)
Xp1700+ ($44)
SK-7 ($15)
256mb PC2700/3200 ($30)
Geforce4 4200ti ($100)
$269 total

You should get over $100 out of what you have used, so it's a reasonably priced upgrade. Anything you can do with what you have is going to be poor in games due to the lack of AGP.

Maybe 2x256Mb would be nice if you really want to play