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Seeking suggestiongs for upgrade
Im looking to give my current system to someone in need and looking for
suggestions on what I could upgrade too. Currently I have an AMD Athlon 1.4 ghz, 512 ram with an ATI 9600xt thats held out fairly well. Ive played most games on it but Half Life 2 started to show that its really time to get some more speed. ( I will keep my Antec 480W PSU and maxtor 120gig HD) Im not a serious gamer but still enjoy them and not want to have to be worried about meeting system requirements for awhile. Its been suggested that theres a budget friendly CPU's such as the Sempron 3000 or a Celeron 3.06 ghz ( both in $75 range)with a simple MB for $75-$100 which may be the way for me to go. ( I may keep the 9600xt AGP or let that go with the old 1.4ghz and get something new in PCI-E ... This option is quite flexible.) What kind of CPU/MB/RAM combo for a modest price can you guys suggest ? Thanks for all input |
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Seeking suggestiongs for upgrade
Brad wrote: Im looking to give my current system to someone in need and looking for suggestions on what I could upgrade too. Currently I have an AMD Athlon 1.4 ghz, 512 ram with an ATI 9600xt thats held out fairly well. Ive played most games on it but Half Life 2 started to show that its really time to get some more speed. ( I will keep my Antec 480W PSU and maxtor 120gig HD) Im not a serious gamer but still enjoy them and not want to have to be worried about meeting system requirements for awhile. Its been suggested that theres a budget friendly CPU's such as the Sempron 3000 or a Celeron 3.06 ghz ( both in $75 range)with a simple MB for $75-$100 which may be the way for me to go. ( I may keep the 9600xt AGP or let that go with the old 1.4ghz and get something new in PCI-E ... This option is quite flexible.) What kind of CPU/MB/RAM combo for a modest price can you guys suggest ? Thanks for all input If your desire is only to play half-life 2, the MOST modest way to go is to find out the top processor your motherboard takes, and scrounge one up on ebay. Aside from the processor, your config is within the Recommended Specs for that game, the processor is barely above mimimum. If the top is only an athlon 1800+, you may as well dump the whole system, but sometimes the top is an Athlon Thunderbird 2600+. Halflife is a heavily CPU bound game. This is a stopgap method, it would meet your current needs, and buy some time to save for the better system. If there are other games in the mix you've got your eye on, the picture changes. Can we get more detail on your current config? Motherboard make and model? What type of RAM? (eg, pc-133, pc2700) THe Celeron is not really a gaming chip, but a 3.06chz would let you play halflife 2 better than your current system. I have found the Sempron 3400+ to be quite acceptable for the games I play. 2GB of ram deosn't hurt either (I know it's overkill), |
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On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:54:39 GMT, "Brad"
wrote: Im looking to give my current system to someone in need and looking for suggestions on what I could upgrade too. Currently I have an AMD Athlon 1.4 ghz, 512 ram with an ATI 9600xt thats held out fairly well. Ive played most games on it but Half Life 2 started to show that its really time to get some more speed. ( I will keep my Antec 480W PSU and maxtor 120gig HD) Im not a serious gamer but still enjoy them and not want to have to be worried about meeting system requirements for awhile. Its been suggested that theres a budget friendly CPU's such as the Sempron 3000 or a Celeron 3.06 ghz ( both in $75 range)with a simple MB for $75-$100 which may be the way for me to go. ( I may keep the 9600xt AGP or let that go with the old 1.4ghz and get something new in PCI-E ... This option is quite flexible.) What kind of CPU/MB/RAM combo for a modest price can you guys suggest ? Thanks for all input It will depend on how much future upgradability matters. The cheapest means towards your end is legacy stuff from the socket 754 or 939 era, but of course least upgradable, and even moreso if you bought another board that supports DDR1 or AGP instead of DDR2 and PCI Express. So you have to decide what the budget is, including for memory and video card, and consider what resolutions you game with and how much eyecandy you "need" in your games as it directly effects how good a video card you need and how much of a bottleneck your current one is. Since your present system is fairly aged, I will presume you want to likewise get a few years out of it's replacement and thus recommend going to PCI Express and DDR2 memory, especially since your present video card and memory aren't very valuable and not of much use in a faster/newer system even if the newer system supported them. If instead, you only want the cheapest thing to reuse your memory and video, possibly something like this, http://promotions.newegg.com/NeweggP...urs/index.html but IMO, you're at the point where replacing the video card (and going with a board supporting PCI Express instead) make the most long-term sense, but of course will cost more immediately. |
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Seeking suggestiongs for upgrade
wrote in message oups.com... Brad wrote: Im looking to give my current system to someone in need and looking for suggestions on what I could upgrade too. Currently I have an AMD Athlon 1.4 ghz, 512 ram with an ATI 9600xt thats held out fairly well. Ive played most games on it but Half Life 2 started to show that its really time to get some more speed. ( I will keep my Antec 480W PSU and maxtor 120gig HD) Im not a serious gamer but still enjoy them and not want to have to be worried about meeting system requirements for awhile. Its been suggested that theres a budget friendly CPU's such as the Sempron 3000 or a Celeron 3.06 ghz ( both in $75 range)with a simple MB for $75-$100 which may be the way for me to go. ( I may keep the 9600xt AGP or let that go with the old 1.4ghz and get something new in PCI-E ... This option is quite flexible.) What kind of CPU/MB/RAM combo for a modest price can you guys suggest ? Thanks for all input If your desire is only to play half-life 2, the MOST modest way to go is to find out the top processor your motherboard takes, and scrounge one up on ebay. Aside from the processor, your config is within the Recommended Specs for that game, the processor is barely above mimimum. If the top is only an athlon 1800+, you may as well dump the whole system, but sometimes the top is an Athlon Thunderbird 2600+. Halflife is a heavily CPU bound game. This is a stopgap method, it would meet your current needs, and buy some time to save for the better system. If there are other games in the mix you've got your eye on, the picture changes. Can we get more detail on your current config? Motherboard make and model? What type of RAM? (eg, pc-133, pc2700) THe Celeron is not really a gaming chip, but a 3.06chz would let you play halflife 2 better than your current system. I have found the Sempron 3400+ to be quite acceptable for the games I play. 2GB of ram deosn't hurt either (I know it's overkill), Thank you for the ideas. I just wanted to clarify though that Im not looking to just upgrade portions of my system. The intent is to give my setup to my lady friend. I wanted to find if the budget cpu's will noticeable outperform my aged Atlhon or if I would need to go higher. Given your opinion and some others, Im gathering a Sempron may be the viable option. |
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Brad wrote: wrote in message oups.com... Brad wrote: Im looking to give my current system to someone in need and looking for suggestions on what I could upgrade too. Currently I have an AMD Athlon 1.4 ghz, 512 ram with an ATI 9600xt thats held out fairly well. Ive played most games on it but Half Life 2 started to show that its really time to get some more speed. ( I will keep my Antec 480W PSU and maxtor 120gig HD) Im not a serious gamer but still enjoy them and not want to have to be worried about meeting system requirements for awhile. Its been suggested that theres a budget friendly CPU's such as the Sempron 3000 or a Celeron 3.06 ghz ( both in $75 range)with a simple MB for $75-$100 which may be the way for me to go. ( I may keep the 9600xt AGP or let that go with the old 1.4ghz and get something new in PCI-E ... This option is quite flexible.) What kind of CPU/MB/RAM combo for a modest price can you guys suggest ? Thanks for all input If your desire is only to play half-life 2, the MOST modest way to go is to find out the top processor your motherboard takes, and scrounge one up on ebay. Aside from the processor, your config is within the Recommended Specs for that game, the processor is barely above mimimum. If the top is only an athlon 1800+, you may as well dump the whole system, but sometimes the top is an Athlon Thunderbird 2600+. Halflife is a heavily CPU bound game. This is a stopgap method, it would meet your current needs, and buy some time to save for the better system. If there are other games in the mix you've got your eye on, the picture changes. Can we get more detail on your current config? Motherboard make and model? What type of RAM? (eg, pc-133, pc2700) THe Celeron is not really a gaming chip, but a 3.06chz would let you play halflife 2 better than your current system. I have found the Sempron 3400+ to be quite acceptable for the games I play. 2GB of ram deosn't hurt either (I know it's overkill), Thank you for the ideas. I just wanted to clarify though that Im not looking to just upgrade portions of my system. The intent is to give my setup to my lady friend. I wanted to find if the budget cpu's will noticeable outperform my aged Atlhon or if I would need to go higher. Given your opinion and some others, Im gathering a Sempron may be the viable option. Anything new will outperform that old athlon by at LEAST 3x or more. Probably much more. With regards to the motherboards, avoid ECS/Elitegroup, they have a phenominal failure rate. Also avoid the temptation to buy an emachines computer. Aside from not being gaming computers, they both SUCK, and die young (never to be revived). It's not a moneysaver to have your machine die in 2 years. I have a wall of dead emachines. |
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