Some upgrade help?

[Umrswimr]

Now, I've been fairly lax about my upgrade habits in the last year and I've come to the conclusion that I need an upgrade. Here's what I've got right now:

PII 400
Diamond TNT2 Ultra
Asus P2B
196 MB RAM (all 100MHz stuff)

You may stop laughing now.
Really not too bad for a 6 year old system. Anyway, I've noticed that Diablo II takes a nice performance hit when I've got my Necro fully revived up and all the baddies come. Don't even ask about HL. I'm looking at the TNT GeForce GTS 64 but I don't know if that will solve the problem. Do I need to toss out the processor and jump into the new GHz stuff? If so- Athlon or PIII? Overclock an 800MHz? It's been too long since I did all my research and I'm waaaaayyy behind now. Some help?

 

[Jvolm]

TNT2's were out 6 yrs ago? I didn't even think there was AGP then. In 1995, I had my PCI Diamond monster with a whopping 4 MB of video RAM...

Anyways, I'd say sell the system for a few hundred bucks & start over. Personally, I'd go with AMD on a DDR board. Heck, if you've got the $$$, go for a Geforce 3. Although, if all you're doing is playing DiabloII, GF3 is prob like swatting a fly with a Buick

 

[jamison]

You could sell all of that old stuff and be half way to your core components for your new system...

I would go with the following:


CPU: AMD Thunderbird 1330MHz (266MHz FSB)
CPU Cooler: Taisol CGK742092
Motherboard: ASUS A7M266
Memory: Crucial PC-2100 DDR 256MB CAS2.5
Video Card: Visiontek GeForce2 GTS 64MB

 

[4824guy]

Your CPU is holding back your gaming performance. A faster video card alone will not help that much by itself. Your should investicate getting a new mobo and CPU for your rig first. Then a newer video card.