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Bires
10-05-2005, 05:46 PM
and what to upgrade to prepare it for the next pile of gaming gems this holiday season?
Airencracken
10-05-2005, 06:16 PM
what's your hard drive? What motherboard? How much RAM? What speed. etc?
Bires
10-05-2005, 06:40 PM
what's your hard drive? What motherboard? How much RAM? What speed. etc?

Irrelevant in this case. I'm considering upgrading my CPU, but have to be talked into it.
Thesifer
10-05-2005, 07:25 PM
Ram is irrelevant when looking for a Bottleneck???

Same with Hard Drive.. if for some god awful reason you have a 5400rpm drive.. that would/could be a bottleneck also
Bires
10-05-2005, 08:21 PM
Ram is irrelevant when looking for a Bottleneck???

Same with Hard Drive.. if for some god awful reason you have a 5400rpm drive.. that would/could be a bottleneck also


That's not what I mean...oh nevermind...I'll just go google some hardware sites...
Grimm
10-05-2005, 09:29 PM
If you are trying to decide between replacing the CPU and the video card, I would upgrade the card.

However, I would consider a lot of the other components first. Most people overlook the important stuff.
Airencracken
10-05-2005, 09:38 PM
I was thinking like thesifer. sorry :shrug:
Jeffbx
10-06-2005, 09:53 AM
Pfft - I wouldn't touch any of it.

I don't think you can even find a game that won't run on a machine with those specs.

If you feel you have to upgrade SOMETHING, pop in a WD Raptor 10k RPM HD. That'll give you a little boost.
Pemolis
10-07-2005, 05:52 PM
The OS is the bottleneck if you run less than 1 GHZ ram (pop it up to 2GHZ if you run windows xp/64).

The system bus is the other bottleneck (but that cannot be corrected unless you go over to pcie which is undersupported atm). If you want, use SLI (dual videocards) for more performance.

Here is what you want to look at if you are a performance nut.

Sata 300 or SCSI Raid Drives. Put your OS on a different drive, Put your Paging File on a Separate drive (not a separate partition, Drive!!!). Put your Software/games on a separate drive. Disable your antivirus, spyware scanners, and any automated items while you play the game (enable them when you are done).

Of course you'll blow about 2 to 4 k just upgrading.

You have a 3 Ghz processor. Get over a gig of ram, get some faster hard drives (if you have sata ports, put yoru software on the sata drives).

You are not going to get THAT huge of a boost (which means you want either image quality, or FPS).
ramazank2
10-07-2005, 08:18 PM
You should upgrade the entire computer and sell your old hunker to me for $50,