Re: Upgrade question.
- From: "DD" <anyone@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 22:15:23 +0100
"Brian" <b.whitish@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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PlowBoy wrote:
TW is right about the buy AGP now or get PCIe ONLY is a delemma for many
reasons, unless money is a factor... But there is a lot more money to
spend
than they think, to get into a PCIe board and vid card maybe not for you
Brian?
My 1st thougth was, How high can you take that motherboard Processor
wise?
(what socket is the AMD?) modest investment in that chip along with the
vid card, you could get by a while (much like I hope to with my Wintel
machine) But the wintell I have is crap, 2.4 ghz 533fsb, socket 478,
only
better processor I can find for mine right now is a 2.7 or so. for about
150...
Secondly, to say you wont see much with the 7800gs (256 meg) is somewhat
misguided IMHO. TW is right that the similiarly priced PCIe versions
are
better and faster by oh about at most 10% I think it was . But do you
buy a
300 dollar card, for a dead end system? On ebay though, the 7800gs's
(agp)
are fetching just over 200 bucks on average where reatails is nearer to
300.
so dollar wise or pound foolish?
My trap is, that if I bought a new motherboard, Im gonna get a faster
cpu, &
ram (plus more of it) or I aint moving anywhere... I figured my
motherboard
& chip (4400+ which may or may not go down in price soon with AMD's
announcement soon) setup I picked out was going to run me a minimum of
$515
us, plus I need a gfx card, and ram for it, becuase it was not agp and
only
think I can xfer to it would be a HD and DVD burners.
But Asrock
(http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/09/16/asrock_939dual/page2.html)
has a decent board board that has BOTH agp & pci-e for the 939 AMD chips.
I
was up to 320 with decent chip and $74 shipped (neweg {showing outof
stock
btw as I post this})
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081&ATT=13-157-081&CMP=OTC-pr1c3grabb3r)
But maybe your processor and ram will fit into this board? It might be a
decent upgrade path for you... upgrade a little bit as you feel you have
the cash?
My reasoning: I can get the AGP not so expensinve now, as everyone is
abandoning it. get the Asrock a little later, with better CPU and use my
AGP card in it for a while, then move up to like the 7950 (pcie) or
something as the 8800 come out? hell I dont know, lots of speculation I
admit, I guess...
TW enlightened us with:
On 31 Jul 2006 18:42:27 -0700, "Brian" <b.whitish@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am currently running an AMD XP 2100 with a Gforce 4 Ti4200 and 512
mb ram. I have a chance to get a 7800GS agp video card. Will it work
okay with my computer? I play Nascar 2003, GP legends, F1 challenge
and now GT legends. Will my cpu be a big hang up? I plan on doing a
big upgrade after the first of the year. I figured you folks could
give me the best answers. Thanks!
One of my concerns would be that by investing in an AGP card you're
going to limit yourself to an AGP motherboard when you do your upgrade
vs a PCI express slot. You should see a small increase with the 7800,
but not a lot. Unless you're getting a great deal on the card I would
consider doing the video when you do the major upgrade.
Actually I will only be paying about $125 for the vid card, afreind has
up graded to an Intel 805 with DDR2 and PCIE. I was hoping to limp by
for another 6 months or so before figuring out if I should continue
with AMD and get an AMD2 mobo with DDR2 or go to Intel. Their new cpus
are pretty impressive. My current mobo is a MSI K7N2. I have had my set
up for 3 1/2 years. If i have to spend any more to make the 7800gs work
I probably wont do it.
Buy the card, it's an absolute steal at that price. I bought one (7800 GS
AGP) this week and saw my benchmarks more than quadruple from my previous
6200 (which had been a cheap and modest upgrade from a 4600). One thing
though, it is pretty power hungry, my 400 watt PSU with 15 amp on the 12V
rail was being tripped on a heavy load and was shutting down the system
instantaneously, a few others are getting a similar problem. An inexpensive
550W, 30 amp PSU has fixed the problem.
DavidD.
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