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Suggestions under 500$

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raven007

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I'm looking for suggestions on what parts to get that will total around 500$
I'm looking to replace mobo, proc, v-card
currently running asus k8n, 754 3400, 6800 vanilla.
Any suggestions, or even if I should upgrade?
I'm not satisfied with performance of the crippled 6800 agp. Unlocking pipes causes artifacts, overclocking is somewhat unsuccessful. I can get decent overclocks, but nothing that improves performance before lock ups. I'm wanting to go pciE, and I'll have to swap the parts listed above to get there. So please batter me with suggestions.
? Dual core ?
? SLI ?
? wait ?
 
the more i research and read reviews and benchmarks the more I see it is sort of a waste of money. I'm thinking I should maybe invest in the Dell 2005fpw. Atleast I know it will stick around for a while before going obsolete. I guess I'm just hungry for a little more power.
 
Get the Venice 3000+ with a nice CPU Cooler, an X-90 with a nice low noise fan, OC from 1.8Ghs to 2.5 to 2.7 Ghz with an nice 1GB Value Ram (around $105). with X800XL you should be having a nice upgrade.
 
^Yeah. The Venice CPU's are known for awesome OC potential. Take the 3000+ Venice and the XP-90 heatsink, and you should easily get to 2.5ghz.
 
PCIe gives absolutely no performance increase over AGP right now. I would put the money into a better card, or save it for a major upgrade (X2, 7800, etc.)
 
Your setup is fine. The vanilla 6800 beats the 6600Gt and performance wise, is halfway between the 6800GT and 6600GT. It should be able to get around 40 frames on 1028/1024 4xAA 8xAF, and should probably get 40 frames at 1600/1200 without AA enabled. You should be able to play most of the latest games at half decent resolutions pretty well. IMO a monitor would be a better investment for you.

And by the way, his 3400+ is 2.4 ghz. Do you not think that he can just overclock it a little more and get the same performance as the 2.5 GHZ venice running in dual channel?
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I guess I will wait on the upgrades and go with the monitor. the only reason I was wanting to go PCIE was for the newer v-cards. Most are a little cheaper in the pciE format. And I'm sure the next gen cards will be the same. with or without performance increasing agp is being kicked to the side.
 
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