Upgrade advice

[ZeroByte]

Hey guys and gals forst post here. Just wanted to get some advice on upgrading my pc. Right now it does pretty much everything I need it to do except it is a little slow sometimes in newer games and 3d/2d apps.

Basically as you can see from my sig I have an agp vid card and mobo. Looking to make the jump to pci-e. I was looking at this card.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814102698

Also looking at this CPU. Not even really sure if I need a cpu upgrade to tell you the truth.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103539

One thing I am not too sure about right now is the mobo. Any suggestions as to what are the good ones out right now? I know Asus is good, My last 3 mobos were abit and they seemed to work fine.

Oh and memory, was looking at maybe getting 2gig or corsair or maybe just addon to the geil ram I already have.

Any info/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance 🙂

/edit

Ok if I do decide to stay with agp for now I will just upgrade my ram and video card.
Ram I'm not sure about yet. Vid card I would go with below.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130273

Any thoughts?

 

[Buck Naked]

Nvidia uses SLI
ATI uses crossfire

In other words you can not put 2 of these in SLI.

If it was me, I wouldn't get a SLI mobo. Use the left over money to replace the RAM. If you want 2 GB of RAM you will have better performance with 2 1GB sticks instead of 4 512 sticks.

 

[Geomagick]

The jump from a 3200 to a 3700 is not going to be very dramatic at all.

 

[ZeroByte]

Originally posted by: Buck Naked
Nvidia uses SLI
ATI uses crossfire

In other words you can not put 2 of these in SLI.

If it was me, I wouldn't get a SLI mobo. Use the left over money to replace the RAM. If you want 2 GB of RAM you will have better performance with 2 1GB sticks instead of 4 512 sticks.

Ya sorry bout that I meant pci-e.

Anyways, so brand of memory is best in my case? Some Corsairs maybe?
Also if I was to update the mobo any suggestions on that too?
Thanks for the info so far guys.

Originally posted by: George Powell
The jump from a 3200 to a 3700 is not going to be very dramatic at all.

Ya I am thnking that too. Might stick with the 3200.

 

[ZeroByte]

*Bump*

Anyone else have any advice for me?

 

[Bobthelost]

An A8N-E and a X1800XT with 2GB of budget RAM sounds good if you feel the need to upgrade. Alternatives include the 7900GT if you can find it. Stick with your current CPU.

 

[RussianSensation]

Get a good overclocking PCIe motherboard.
Get X1800XT or 7900GT and overclock it.
Get another 2x512mb of ram.

2x512mb vs. 4x512mb vs. 2x1gig
2T performance decline with 4x512 is not significant.
Another problem many bring up with 4 sticks of ram is overclocking. The problem with running 4x512mb of ram is that beyond 250fsb most motherboards are unstable. But with your 3200+, 250fs is plenty for overclocking headroom unless you have a good chip.

I would recommend saving some $$$ and going with extra 2x512mb of ram. No point in wasting $60-70 extra for 3% performance increase at best as can be seen by the review. With 2 gigs your system will be fine before your retire it. Keep the cpu since 3700+ is no way worth the price difference between 3200+ you already have.