Hi, I'm planning on upgrading my system. It currently is as follows:
Antec Sonata Case
AMD 64 Athlon 3200+
Chaintech VNF3-250
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB
1 GB Corsair Value Select
Western Digital Raptor SATA HD
Right now I'm looking at upgrading the motherboard and video card. For the video card I'm leaning towards a 7800 GT. So I need a motherboard that supports PCI-express. The CPU that I currently have is a socket 754. Are there any good 754 motherboards that have PCI-express? Or will I have to upgrade to a 939 CPU? Would there be any performance differences between a 939 3200+ and a 754 3200+? And is nForce4 939 only, or are there 754 versions? And where can I find some good benchmarks that would estimate my system performance in various games, it seems like sites like these always use top-of-the-line systems to benchmark. I haven't really kept up-to-date with hardware in the past year so I'm kinda lost. I don't want to spend over $600-700 dollars on this upgrade, so what would you recommend?
Antec Sonata Case
AMD 64 Athlon 3200+
Chaintech VNF3-250
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB
1 GB Corsair Value Select
Western Digital Raptor SATA HD
Right now I'm looking at upgrading the motherboard and video card. For the video card I'm leaning towards a 7800 GT. So I need a motherboard that supports PCI-express. The CPU that I currently have is a socket 754. Are there any good 754 motherboards that have PCI-express? Or will I have to upgrade to a 939 CPU? Would there be any performance differences between a 939 3200+ and a 754 3200+? And is nForce4 939 only, or are there 754 versions? And where can I find some good benchmarks that would estimate my system performance in various games, it seems like sites like these always use top-of-the-line systems to benchmark. I haven't really kept up-to-date with hardware in the past year so I'm kinda lost. I don't want to spend over $600-700 dollars on this upgrade, so what would you recommend?
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