Which upgrade should I choose

[waitingforprescott]

Hey guys i'm going to be buying a new computer soon and am trying to decide which upgrade I should make. It's either between having 512mb ram with an onboard mx 420 or 256mb ram and a gf4 ti 4200 64mb. I plan on doing some light gaming.

 

[Ionizer86]

Hmm, light gaming? Why not settle for the 512 ram for now on your nforce 2? Besides, the performance is more like that of a MX440, which is a lot more than the MX420. You could always plop a vid card into the PC in the future if/when needed.

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: Ionizer86
Hmm, light gaming? Why not settle for the 512 ram for now on your nforce 2? Besides, the performance is more like that of a MX440, which is a lot more than the MX420. You could always plop a vid card into the PC in the future if/when needed.

 

[sniperruff]

more ram will boost the video's performance too

 

[Blastman]

256mb ram and a gf4 ti 4200 64mb by a longshot.. You can always easily upgrade the ram later.

256MB ram is ?generally? plenty enough for gaming. An MX420 would barely cut it even for light gaming.

 

[Blastman]

On second thought, a MX420 wouldn?t really even cut it for light gaming.🙂

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: waitingforprescott
Hey guys i'm going to be buying a new computer soon and am trying to decide which upgrade I should make. It's either between having 512mb ram with an onboard mx 420 or 256mb ram and a gf4 ti 4200 64mb. I plan on doing some light gaming.

I'm going to suggest a third option: get 512MB of RAM, a Shuttle AN35N Ultra nForce2 motherboard, and a $40 AOpen GF4MX440 with 64MB of its own RAM. A plug-in GF4MX440 is significantly faster than the onboard nForce2 video even in dual-channel mode, and with 512MB of RAM your system won't run out of RAM at the drop of a hat and begin stuttering as it pages to disk.