Upraged videocard enough?

[RSanders]

I have an Athlon XP 2000+
768MB of Ram (PC 2700 DDR)
ATI Radeon 8500LE 128MB

I want to play CS-Source or Half-Life 2 basically. My motherboard only goes to 4x on AGP, no 8X.

My question is this.. If I went and bought a ATI Radeon 9800SE and overclock it to a 9800Pro, or Softmod it.... would my processor or motherboard slow it down too much?

Would it be ok to upgrade the videocard without upgrading anything else.. or should I just save up money and buy a new motherboard, processor too?

 

[HappyNic]

you should still beable to play CS-source or half life 2 with your system.

If you install a 9800 pro, you cpu will slow it down abit,, but not that much...

 

[Gamingphreek]

OC your CPU too

As for the otherquestion i would definately get a regular 9800Pro and not an SE. THe softmod is not a garaunteed success, andwithout it you just bought a souped up 9600XT.

-Kevin

 

[RSanders]

Ok thanks. That is all I wanted to know.. because I wasn't sure if my 8500le would handle Half-Life 2... but a lot of games are really dependent on RAM.

Edit-
Gamingphreek,
Do you think my ATI Radeon 8500LE 128mb will run Halflife 2?

 

[iversonyin]

why don't you just try it first and see if it run. If it doesn't then upgrade video card accordingly