Thinking of Upgrading

[Shenkoa]

I am sick of my RIG, I want faster. How acceptable is this rig to all of you.

P4 2A GHz & 2.4
MSI 845E Max
768 MB PC 2100 DDR at 320 MHz
Radeon 9800 Pro 128
Audigy 2
Liteon 4X DVD+R Burner
8 GB WD Protege 5400 RPM Drive for boot disc (My Maxtor 7200 RPM 20 dies) ERR!
2X80 GB HDD's with 8 MB Cache in software RAID0
Antec Performance Plus 660 AMD Case with TP 330

On Newegg, in my cart I have the following

AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Asus Board, I cant remember if its a VIA chipset or Nforce3
512X2 Corsair Value Cas 2.5

 

[VIAN]

The P4 is slow.
Ram seems to be fine
GPU seems to be fine for the moment. Upgrade next year.
Audigy2 is fine
Get a new Powersupply 480 True from Antec

Newegg build

Abit provides really good boards, especially for OCing.
If you're going 939 save some money and get the 3000+ then OC it.
Ram is fine
If you want a bit cheaper there is always 754 socket. I just look at the difference between sockets as OCing potential for the CPU and nothing else.
If you need a new Video card the 6800GT is great. Good brand is Leadtek, BFG.

 

[AdamK47]

Originally posted by: VIAN
The P4 is slow.
Ram seems to be fine
GPU seems to be fine for the moment. Upgrade next year.
Audigy2 is fine
Get a new Powersupply 480 True from Antec

Newegg build

Abit provides really good boards, especially for OCing.
If you're going 939 save some money and get the 3000+ then OC it.
Ram is fine
If you want a bit cheaper there is always 754 socket. I just look at the difference between sockets as OCing potential for the CPU and nothing else.
If you need a new Video card the 6800GT is great. Good brand is Leadtek, BFG.

The RAM is not fine. If he's going to get a new CPU and motherboard there is no reason to not get a 939 board and processor, especially since his memory is PC2100. 2.1GB/sec compared to 6.4GB/sec memory speed is a big difference.

 

[whorush]

yeah the ram there is going to be a drag, but not very noticable unless youre doing hard core stuff like gaming. if youre going to take it easy on ths computer then keep your ram and upgrade it someday when ram prices go down and densities go up.

i dont know how the dual channel thing works with the 939, but since you have multiple sticks you may be able to use 2 memory channels, but you also may not, because you sticks may be different sizes and this and that.

the chip is great, may i recommend the 90nm version. the 90nm 3000 is a great overclocker too.

for mobo's i wouldnt just get whatever asus makes because asus is number 1 as i'm told it is in the intel world. i dont know wha board you are talking about, it may be great, but in the amd world, many companies make many great boards.

also, i would recommend the nforce 3 over via, but thats partly out of habit, the via chipset seems to be pretty highly esteemed nowadays. also, the nforce 4, a new ati chipset, and a new via chipset are comming out in a matter of weeks or days.

check it out and good luck

 

[iversonyin]

that still a decent rig for HL2.

too bad the upgrade bug already infested your body, there nothing we can say to stop your purchase.

 

[VIAN]

768 MB PC 2100 DDR at 320 MHz

He says himself it OCs to 320MHz. That's pretty good and he won't need to upgrade that right away.

 

[whorush]

vian, didnt see the at 320. fair enough. i agree, he can deal with the ram.

 

[Shenkoa]

"The P4 is slow"

Ok, that was an empty statement. The P4 is just as fast as anything AMD has to offer but it all depends on the frequency of the P4.

My P4 is very slow.

 

[whorush]

shenkoa, thats not true, the FX-55 and the athlon 4000 beat intels fastest.

 

[VIAN]

"The P4 is slow"

Ok, that was an empty statement. The P4 is just as fast as anything AMD has to offer but it all depends on the frequency of the P4.

My P4 is very slow.

You need to be a little more observant. This is all that needed to be said.

P4 2A GHz

Special 'A'.

The P4 As are an embarassment to Intel. An athlon XP 2400+ can woop the crap out of that processor w/ applied OC. And the 2400+ is a slow processor.