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Darth007
Apr 26th, 2004, 03:37:28 PM
I searched through all the old techie threads on video cards and whatnot and I know you Mods dont like having old topics brought back to life, so here I am.

Its my birthday in May, and I'll be saving up my cash for a PC upgrade when that video card price drop hits. However I'm aware of the bottleneck that will occur on my system with an upgrade from a Geforce 2 MX to a Radeon 9600 XT, while still having only 60 Gig HD, 512 MB ram, and a 1.1 GHz Athlon processor.

So anyways to the point. What would you recommend for a memory upgrade, and possibly a processor upgrade to keep it all in the range of that graphics card. I get confused with all the new different types of RAM. Thanks.
Sanis Prent
Apr 26th, 2004, 03:55:49 PM
Your memory seems fine for now.

As for your processor, bump it up a gig and you'll be fine.

As a side note, I put a Ti 4200 on my 384 sdram 800 mhz P3 machine a year and a half ago, and it worked fine for a while.
Darth007
Apr 26th, 2004, 03:56:56 PM
So I should look for somethin like 2.2 Gigs, but Athlon or Pentium?
March Kalas
Apr 26th, 2004, 05:15:26 PM
why did you say you were confused about hardrives? You didn't request help on hardrive upgrades.
Morgan Evanar
Apr 26th, 2004, 05:27:00 PM
At this point, you need a new motherboard to get a faster proccessor. This means new memory, too. Pentium = Intel which isn't an option on the cheap.

On the cheap, I suggest this motherboard (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-128-213&depa=0), this memory (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-145-479&depa=0). You may or may not need a new power supply to make all of this stuff work. This CPU (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-379&depa=1) would be my almost budget weapon of choice.
Figrin D'an
Apr 26th, 2004, 09:40:56 PM
Love the XP 2500+ chips. Those Barton cores are great for overclocking.
Darth007
Apr 27th, 2004, 12:47:03 PM
why did you say you were confused about hardrives?

Because if I said "confused about memory" you might think something else, haha.

Anyways, thank you Morg + Charley, you always have good recommendations. I'll keep this stuff in mind.