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Upgrade Questions
Looking into upgradingmy computer but keeping the original RAM to keep the
price down. I'm gonna get: Asus K8N-E Deluxe Socket-754 nForce3 AMD Athlon 64bit 2800+ (Newcastle) Sapphire Radeon 9600XT Ultimate 1) I'll be using 512Mb of PC2700 RAM. Is this going to be a bottle neck? I intent to be using this system winth Win XP MCE and games such as Half Life 2 when its out. 2) How well will the graphics card keep up with all the latest first-person games? 3) Does this motherboard allow for a significant future upgrade of processor? Does anyone know what the max clock speed in can handle is? TIA |
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"elziko" wrote in message
. .. " 1) I'll be using 512Mb of PC2700 RAM. Is this going to be a bottle neck? " Yes, it will be a bottleneck. You'll need PC3200 to get proper performance from an Athlon64. " 2) How well will the graphics card keep up with all the latest first-person games? " Not that well. Far Cry, Doom3, and future games based on their engines will show you that the 9600XT is becoming a low-end card. HL2 looks like having a more forgiving engine, so a 9600XT should run it pretty well. However, when you're done with that game, you may struggle with any other new FPS. You can compare the gaming performance of a number of cards in the following two articles: http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041004/ http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/over2k4/index.html " 3) Does this motherboard allow for a significant future upgrade of processor? Does anyone know what the max clock speed in can handle is? " The 3700+ looks like being the last skt754 CPU. AMD's roadmap will run on skt939 for the near future. If you're looking for maximum upgradeability, you should wait for the recently-released skt939 3000+, 3200+ and 3400+ to arrive on UK shores. You can then weigh-up the choices between the sockets. |
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:18:19 +0100, "elziko"
wrote: Looking into upgradingmy computer but keeping the original RAM to keep the price down. I'm gonna get: Asus K8N-E Deluxe Socket-754 nForce3 AMD Athlon 64bit 2800+ (Newcastle) Sapphire Radeon 9600XT Ultimate 1) I'll be using 512Mb of PC2700 RAM. Is this going to be a bottle neck? I intent to be using this system winth Win XP MCE and games such as Half Life 2 when its out. 2) How well will the graphics card keep up with all the latest first-person games? 3) Does this motherboard allow for a significant future upgrade of processor? Does anyone know what the max clock speed in can handle is? TIA IMHO, trying to cut costs by reusing 512MB of PC2700 is not a good idea. Sell the memory if possible and get 1GB of PC3200. Your video card is going to be a bottleneck but after it, the memory will be effecting framerates too. |
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Since there is only a 19% difference in speed between PC2700 and PC3200 RAM you are not likely to notice a diffence in performance with the different memory, especially if the CPU has 1 MB L2 cache. Memory speed is not as important as CPU speed, the amount of memory, the amount of L2 cache, or hard drive speed. elziko wrote: Looking into upgradingmy computer but keeping the original RAM to keep the price down. I'm gonna get: Asus K8N-E Deluxe Socket-754 nForce3 AMD Athlon 64bit 2800+ (Newcastle) Sapphire Radeon 9600XT Ultimate 1) I'll be using 512Mb of PC2700 RAM. Is this going to be a bottle neck? -- When replying by Email include NewSGrouP (case sensitive) in Subject Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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