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question about upgrade

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emt8q5

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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?
 
from your current system, doubt your Power supply will support the 6800.

Running a XP2100 with a 6800 will cause major CPU bottleneck, so IMO it is not recommened
 
Originally posted by: amdguy
from your current system, doubt your Power supply will support the 6800.

Running a XP2100 with a 6800 will cause major CPU bottleneck, so IMO it is not recommened
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agreed.
 
Why not get a Radeon 9800 Pro since their pretty cheap now (I think around $200 U.S. or so)? That would be a big upgrade from a Geforce 3 and would match your processor better whether you keep the 1700 or go with the 2100. I had a Pentium 4 1.8ghz and went from a Geforce 3 Ti500 to a Radeon 9800 last year and it was a big improvement - even more so now that I upgraded the cpu to 2.6ghz. Just don't expect to be able to crank up Doom 3 if you go this route.
 
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