What should be my next upgrade?

[Stojakapimp]

Well my system I have right now is a 900 Duron with 256 MB's of sdram and Geforce2 MX 32 MB. So I was wondering what my next upgrade should be to keep up with games and run programs better. I've been thinking lately of getting another video card for somewhere around the $100 price range, so maybe a Radeon 8500? Or do you think it would be better for me to go with a new cpu or perhaps better memory, like DDR?

 

[soup or man]

well depending on the motherboard if you were to go for a higher CPU, or DDR ram, you may need a new one. so that would end up costing more than just buying a Radeon 8500.

 

[Stojakapimp]

my mobo is fairly new. I think it can handle the athlons and tbirds up to maybe a little under 2 GHz. I'll try and get the exact numbers though

 

[Stojakapimp]

Well it is a kt-266 chipset and can support an Athlon from 700 MHZ to 1.533 GHz

 

[Stojakapimp]

bump

 

[RandomFool]

i'd go for the 8500 and then the mobo w/ddr and that shiz.

 

[Goi]

What games/applications do you normally play/use? Your GF2MX is pretty much the most "compatible" card, performance wise, with your CPU, so probably upgrading either will bring about similar improvements, depending whiat hardware you choose.

 

[Stojakapimp]

Originally posted by: Goi
What games/applications do you normally play/use? Your GF2MX is pretty much the most "compatible" card, performance wise, with your CPU, so probably upgrading either will bring about similar improvements, depending whiat hardware you choose.

I mainly just want it for the games. But I also watch a lot of divx movies which run ok right now, but could be a little better. it kind of seems like i may be in a catch 22 and will have to buy all new components at one time

 

[Goi]

Might be...but if you had to choose I'd say go for the CPU upgrade first. They usually last quite a bit longer than the 6 month cycle that nvidia enforces on the consumer graphics market.