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[nboy22]

what would be the better buy if I wanted great gaming performance, a Athlon XP 2000+ or a Pentium 1.8 GHZ (Non A), And i also obviously want to have great performance for plain applications like Maya 4 or 3D studio max. Would the Nvidia Ti4200 just make it plain better or does gaming also rely on a very fast processor, because i've heard that if you upgrade your video card you get way better performance if you upgrade from way old to new. i have an Nvidia Riva TNT 2 video card.

 

[Banditbanger]

Well, I'd go with Athlon (faster), especially if you don't plan OCing (hard anyway with 1.8 non A)... As for video, a computer must be balanced (no bottlenecks), so card is very important, but all other parts (like CPU, RAM etc) are also. The difference from TNT2 to 4200 will be huge, and together with Athlon 2000+ this computer will be one mean gaming machine.

I see you are a new member, so my advice is: read posts and articles on Anandtech (just today there is a value gaming system reccomendation) and learn, learn, learn. If you need any more advice, post.

 

[DimZiE]

check out reviews on mobos...
go w/ Athlon....scrap your TNT for the Ti4200
a lot of memory couldn't go wrong... (pick up DDR's instead of SDR... )
and again the key is "no bottlenecks" just like Banditbanger said....

uh yeah one more thing get a good PSU at least 350W (in can make a lot of difference in stability) preferrably Enermax or any other good PSU's
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[toft-dk]

I would say Athlon Too 🙂

 

[Blain]

With the Northwoods showing so strong, I wouldn't even think about a non-A PIV.