I just fired up my old computer back home which I haven't used in about a year. It has a Soyo SY-K7V MB with what I believe to be an athlon xp 1700 (whichever one runs at approx 1.3 ghz). I have 512mb of DDR ram with a geforce 3 video card.
Anyway, I want to upgrade, the past year I have been away at school and have just been using my laptop, however I'm moving into a new place and am now able to accomodate both my laptop and desktop. This desktop will be used primarily for gaming and multimedia.
Now, as far as upgrading goes, I could go buy an athlon XP 2100 (the highest supported cpu) along with a geforce 6800 and some more DDR ram. My question is, would this be a worthwhile upgrade? or should I just scrap the whole thing, Mobo, processor and all and get new.
Is the Geforce 6800's performance scaled to a cpu? if so, then is it even worth getting the card if I were to get the athlon 2100xp (gives me about 1.7 ghz)?
Also, If I were to scrap the entire thing, what chipset would be the one to go with for my needs? intel or AMD?
Anyway, I want to upgrade, the past year I have been away at school and have just been using my laptop, however I'm moving into a new place and am now able to accomodate both my laptop and desktop. This desktop will be used primarily for gaming and multimedia.
Now, as far as upgrading goes, I could go buy an athlon XP 2100 (the highest supported cpu) along with a geforce 6800 and some more DDR ram. My question is, would this be a worthwhile upgrade? or should I just scrap the whole thing, Mobo, processor and all and get new.
Is the Geforce 6800's performance scaled to a cpu? if so, then is it even worth getting the card if I were to get the athlon 2100xp (gives me about 1.7 ghz)?
Also, If I were to scrap the entire thing, what chipset would be the one to go with for my needs? intel or AMD?
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