What components should I upgrade in my PC?

[DPK]

I currently have:
AMD Tbird 1700+
512 MB PC2100
GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB
40 GB HD

I would like to spend, idealy $200 at the most and get a nice eperformance boost. What should I concern myself with the most. The CPU? GPU? RAM?

 

[Howard]

What do you use the PC for most?

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: DPK
I currently have:
AMD Tbird 1700+
512 MB PC2100
GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB
40 GB HD

I would like to spend, idealy $200 at the most and get a nice eperformance boost.

this & this

 

[Sniper82]

If you game depending on your mobo I would overclock the 1700+ then use the $200 to buy 1gb PC3200(so you can o/c) and use the rest to buy a decent used AGP card off these forums. If you don't game much do what Scrap suggested. New mobo and CPU.

 

[Noubourne]

Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon

Originally posted by: DPK
I currently have:
AMD Tbird 1700+
512 MB PC2100
GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB
40 GB HD

I would like to spend, idealy $200 at the most and get a nice eperformance boost.

this & this

A MicroATX board? What is the reasoning behind that?

I wonder if he's going to have trouble running the PC2100 on s939 chip. Unless I saw other peopel doing it, I wouldn't recommend it. Anyone have experience or seen anyone running a Venice with PC2100?

I say save up at least $300 and include RAM in that upgrade. And don't buy a mATX board, get a regular ATX. You can get great AMD mobos for around $100, the 3200 for $100, and plenty of 2x512 DDR400 setups with CAS 2 run under $100.

My advice is to shoot for $300 and move to 939/Athon 64/DDR 400. You'll crap your pants because of the speed difference.

 

[DPK]

Thanks.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Noubourne

Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon

Originally posted by: DPK
I currently have:
AMD Tbird 1700+
512 MB PC2100
GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB
40 GB HD

I would like to spend, idealy $200 at the most and get a nice eperformance boost.

this & this

A MicroATX board? What is the reasoning behind that?

I wonder if he's going to have trouble running the PC2100 on s939 chip. Unless I saw other peopel doing it, I wouldn't recommend it. Anyone have experience or seen anyone running a Venice with PC2100?

I say save up at least $300 and include RAM in that upgrade. And don't buy a mATX board, get a regular ATX. You can get great AMD mobos for around $100, the 3200 for $100, and plenty of 2x512 DDR400 setups with CAS 2 run under $100.

My advice is to shoot for $300 and move to 939/Athon 64/DDR 400. You'll crap your pants because of the speed difference.

from the link above pc2100 is supported ..once he/she gathers more dinero he/she can upgrade to larger and faster modules..

CPU
? Supports 64-bit AMD® Athlon? 64FX/64 processor (Socket 939)
? Supports 3000+, 3200+, 3500+, 3800+, 4000+, 4400+, 4600+, 4800+, FX53, FX55, FX57, FX60


Chipset
? NVIDIA ® C51PV (GeForce6150) Chipset
- HyperTransport connection to AMD K8 Athlon64 processor
- 8 or 16 bit control/address/data transfer both directions
- 1GHz "Double Data Rate" operation both direction
- Supports one PCI-E x16 slot
- Graphic integrated

? NVIDIA ® MCP51 (MCP430) Chipset
- Supports dual channel native SATA controller up to 300MB/s with RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and 5
- Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode PCI EIDE controller
- ACPI & PC2001 compliant enhanced power management
- Supports USB2.0 up to 8 ports
- Supports HD audio


Main Memory
? Supports dual channel DDR 266/333/400, using four 184-pin DDR DIMMs.
? Supports the memory size up to 4GB
? Supports 2.5v DDR SDRAM DIMM

and as far as matx ..running an Asus a8n-e ..and it has only 3 pci slots ..only 1 more than this microatx board which happens to be highly regarded matx at AT

 

[Sniper82]

Originally posted by: Noubourne

Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon

Originally posted by: DPK
I currently have:
AMD Tbird 1700+
512 MB PC2100
GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB
40 GB HD

I would like to spend, idealy $200 at the most and get a nice eperformance boost.

this & this

A MicroATX board? What is the reasoning behind that?

I wonder if he's going to have trouble running the PC2100 on s939 chip. Unless I saw other peopel doing it, I wouldn't recommend it. Anyone have experience or seen anyone running a Venice with PC2100?

I say save up at least $300 and include RAM in that upgrade. And don't buy a mATX board, get a regular ATX. You can get great AMD mobos for around $100, the 3200 for $100, and plenty of 2x512 DDR400 setups with CAS 2 run under $100.

My advice is to shoot for $300 and move to 939/Athon 64/DDR 400. You'll crap your pants because of the speed difference.

to lazy to look but I am guessing it might have something to do with having onboard video thats probably on par with his GF4. But thats a guess as I have no idea.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Sniper82

Originally posted by: Noubourne

Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon

Originally posted by: DPK
I currently have:
AMD Tbird 1700+
512 MB PC2100
GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB
40 GB HD

I would like to spend, idealy $200 at the most and get a nice eperformance boost.

this & this

A MicroATX board? What is the reasoning behind that?

I wonder if he's going to have trouble running the PC2100 on s939 chip. Unless I saw other peopel doing it, I wouldn't recommend it. Anyone have experience or seen anyone running a Venice with PC2100?

I say save up at least $300 and include RAM in that upgrade. And don't buy a mATX board, get a regular ATX. You can get great AMD mobos for around $100, the 3200 for $100, and plenty of 2x512 DDR400 setups with CAS 2 run under $100.

My advice is to shoot for $300 and move to 939/Athon 64/DDR 400. You'll crap your pants because of the speed difference.

to lazy to look but I am guessing it might have something to do with having onboard video thats probably on par with his GF4. But thats a guess as I have no idea.

also has a pci-e 16x slot if needed for a better performing solution ..most folks need only onboard for most functions..