Upgrading Options with My older mobo?

[CrowDog]

I have a Intel d850gb. In an older gateway system my mom gave me.

Currently it has:

P4 1.3
128 rdram
tnt2

I basicly want to upgrade all three of these areas as far as I can. But not being super duper computer smart ,Im not sure exactly what parts to buy. I would like to shop on newegg.com.

On the intel website it says it will support a 2ghz p4...but it says its needs to have the 256kb cache size I guess. The one on newegg is a northwood with 512 cache I think....? Im not sure if my mobo will take this.

Also what would be the best vid card to in this without experiencing any bottlenecking? It does have a 4x agp slot...can I put the Rosewill Radeon 9600 in here?

And I know nothing about rdram....the mobo says it will take up to 2gigs of ram. I would like to add another 512mb but Im not sure what to buy.


So what ya'll think I should put in here?🙂

Thanks

 

[DaveSimmons]

Unfortunately it's now 4 generations behind, and really not worth upgrading.
1. Even if you can find a 2.0 chip, the 400 fsb is much slower than the newer 533 and 800 fsb of later chips.
2. RDRAM is more than double the price of the DDR PC3200 used in modern systems, just 256 MB will cost you $90.
3. The power supply might not support a 2 GHz chip and modern video card, possibly not even the 1.3 and video card.

You should look at the System thread (#1 in this forum) and/or click the "guides" tab at the top of this page.

It will cost about $700 without a monitor, but you can put together a nice system using all new parts that's more than double the speed of your current PC.

If you absolutely can't afford $700 right now, you could get a tiny bit more life out of your system by buying a used geforce 3 ti or geforce 4 ti (not mx!) but then you'll still probably have problems from only having 128 MB.

If you can't afford a real upgrade now, you should probably just find some old but good games that you missed when they came out, and play through them while you save up.

 

[stevty2889]

Yeah, unfortunatly, not much you can do with that. Even going to a 2 ghz cpu wouldn't make much of a differance, and finding a 2ghz with the williamette core, would be very difficult. RDRAM is still very very expensive when compated to DDR, 512mb of rdram, will cost you more that $200, it must be installed in pairs, so you would have to get 2x256mb sticks, which go for about $100 each, used on e-bay. You could go to a geforce 3 ti 200, or 500, you can find them used for around $40, or a geforce 4 ti4200, if you can find a decent deal on that. Other than that, not much you can do with that system. Intel no longer supports the board, and I didn't see weather it was even socket 478, or socket 423(really old, and most likely what you have) so finding a compatible cpu would be difficult, and not really even worth it.