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gaillard

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Hi,

At the moment i have a system i built when these things were new and am now seeing the down sides to my choices, and would like to spend as little as possible to be able to play newest games on modest resolutions. I have a athlon 64 3400 on an aopen ak86l with a gig of pc 3200 222 ram. and the killer is my geforce 5950 ultra. Seeing this cards performance on todays games is heartwrenching, specially without sms3.0 is it?

anyways whats the cheapest option to get my video performance up to snuff? use my athlon 64 with a new pcie motherboard and a new mid range video card?? (is the processor fast enough and can i use my ram??)

sorry for the confusion guys ive been out of the hardware loop since my hardware was top-of-the-line...

thanks a ton!!!!

ps i have a 500watt ps is that enough to keep??
 
Your CPU is probably a socket 754 (correct me if I'm wrong) so if you wanted PCIe it would be easiest to get a s939 chip and board. There are some s754 boards with PCIe though if you hunt around a bit.

Or, you could get the X800 AGP card and keep your current mobo/CPU.

Yes your RAM should work fine in a newer board - I'm using PC3200 also.

the PSU should be fine for now - I'm running an OC'd 3700+ and a X1900XT on a 550W PSU with power to spare.

Hope this helps 🙂
 
The power supply should be fine but I hope it is a good name brand and not a cheap one that came with your case.

The wisdom today is 2 gigs of RAM. I strongly suggest another gig.

The real question is, how much are you willing to spend?
 
Would there be a reason to get a 939? if the processor isn't going to be much at all faster than mine (cause i am trying to spend as little as possible) then is there another advantage? as long as i have pcie for the video card does anything else matter? whats a good video card to pair with what i have, when would the processor start to be a bottleneck or visa versa??

I dont want to spend much....

thanks for the responses guys!!

Jonathan
 
I think you'd be fine just getting a vid card, the 3400 has enough guts for most stuff. It might be a bit of a bottleneck at some point but right now your vid card is the thing to replace. Focus on that 1st, then RAM maybe later, 1GB isn't bad.
 
so i am thinking a 7600gt with the cheapest (not junk) motherboard i can find... will that be about 60 or so plus i am guessing 200 for 7600gt? that sound right?? any recommendations for the motherboard?? thanks guys!!
 
go to newegg for prices - I'm not good at guessing prices on stuff.

I prefer Asus mobos, Gigabyte is also good, Epox used to have some issue with randomly dying but I think that is fixed now, MSI is decent too, Abit is good.
 
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