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Need suggestions on what to upgrade next

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Apanthropy

Junior Member
Alright, I'm thinking about putting some more money into my computer, and I just want a pretty straightforward suggestion on what component out of the things that I have would be the most helpful to upgrade for better performance in games like BF2 and CSS. I've heard suggestions already that the motherboard would be the most helpful to upgrade, but I'd like other reccomendations.

My specs are:

Radeon 9800Pro
AMD A64 3400+ S754
1GB Corsair PC3200 2-3-3-6
ASUS K8V-X mobo

Thanks. 🙂
 
If you upgrade the motherboard, you will also need to upgrade the CPU an VC - so it will sorta get expensive.

Anyway, if i were you i would either get a 6800GT, or another 1GB or RAM.

RoD
 
What's your budget?

I don't see why you'd want to upgrade just the motherboard. Unless that one just sucks and I don't know it. Usually motherboard benchmarks are pretty close across the board.

Getting another 754 AGP board would not be a good idea at this point.

Videocard is probably your best bet, but you'd probably want to switch over to PCI-e for a 7800gt or something if you had the budget for it.

Alternatively a used AGP 6800gt or similar would be a good bet on a budget.
 
You're in a tight spot if that's 2 sticks of RAM. Chances are if you had another stick, it'll slow down the RAM to 333 MHz.
And if you wanted to change to PCI-E video card, then you'd have to change the mobo.
However, if I wanted to do the cheapest upgrade, it might be a 6800 then I'd go with another GB of RAM even if it does slow down the RAM to 333 MHz (if playing BF2).
But, if you have an account on eBay and enough feedback and positive feedback, you could still get a good price for your stuff and change things around the way you want.
Actually, I kind of felt like selling my whole mobo/cpu/ram on eBay just because I want the 3700+ instead of the 3400+ and want RAM with faster timings and a slightly more silent heatsink (Zalman 7000-ALCU). Kind of bizarre in a way but I might be satisfied enough to keep it for a long time and keep it as a good backup/file sharing machine when I build a quad core.
 
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