Need some advice...
Need some advice...
I am about 2 years behind in my case innards and need some help...
Im currently running (no chuckling):
IWill K266+R
AMD 1700+ XP
512 PC133 SDRAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
What can I do on a budget to get my pc back in running and able to better support newer pc games such as farcry and unreal tournament 2004.
P.S. I currently run games like Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament 2003, Splinter Cell -- and they look great
Im currently running (no chuckling):
IWill K266+R
AMD 1700+ XP
512 PC133 SDRAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
What can I do on a budget to get my pc back in running and able to better support newer pc games such as farcry and unreal tournament 2004.
P.S. I currently run games like Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament 2003, Splinter Cell -- and they look great
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Here is a link on the board:
http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/iwill/KK266Plus-R.htm
As for upgrading you on a small budget like 90% of users, which is just fine. You already have a great video card and forgot to mention your total budget so I'll just suggest what I'd do with a limited budget.
If you are an AMD fan I'd suggest picking up the following:
Athlon64 3000+ $233
Any nForce3-150 or 250 motherboard will work fine as will the via K8T800 chipsets. Performance is pretty much on par. Cost ($90-$120)
As for memory just go with some Kingston or Corsair value memory. 2x 512mb modules would work fine. I'd stick with a gig of memory these days.
You should be able to keep your total below $500 and have a PC able to play all the current titles and have a cpu that is 64bit ready
http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/iwill/KK266Plus-R.htm
As for upgrading you on a small budget like 90% of users, which is just fine. You already have a great video card and forgot to mention your total budget so I'll just suggest what I'd do with a limited budget.
If you are an AMD fan I'd suggest picking up the following:
Athlon64 3000+ $233
Any nForce3-150 or 250 motherboard will work fine as will the via K8T800 chipsets. Performance is pretty much on par. Cost ($90-$120)
As for memory just go with some Kingston or Corsair value memory. 2x 512mb modules would work fine. I'd stick with a gig of memory these days.
You should be able to keep your total below $500 and have a PC able to play all the current titles and have a cpu that is 64bit ready
Last edited by Apoptosis on Wed May 05, 2004 2:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.
"3 x 168-pin DIMM Sockets Support up to 1.5 GB of PC133 Memory
Supports PC133/PC100 SDRAM and VCM Memory Types
Supports 64/128/256/512 MB SDRAM Modules
Supports 3.3V Unbuffered/Registered DIMM"
Where do you see DDR?
Thanks for the synopsys. I just recently moved and my budget went from "some extra" to "very little extra". The problem with my setup is that I can't buy one component. I need to drop a load and get all three (cpu, mobo, memory) all in one big chunk. It hurts my wallet. =(
Supports PC133/PC100 SDRAM and VCM Memory Types
Supports 64/128/256/512 MB SDRAM Modules
Supports 3.3V Unbuffered/Registered DIMM"
Where do you see DDR?
Thanks for the synopsys. I just recently moved and my budget went from "some extra" to "very little extra". The problem with my setup is that I can't buy one component. I need to drop a load and get all three (cpu, mobo, memory) all in one big chunk. It hurts my wallet. =(
I thought that the "new" 2500+ weren't as easy to OC up there as they used to be. Wouldn't I need an old 2500+?Apoptosis wrote:I skimmed it and saw: Supports DDR266/200 MHz FSB
typo on their part and I missed the FSB.. LOL I'm a little low on sleep here!
You could always get an Athlon XP 2500+ and OC it to 3200+ on a KT600 mobo with some DDR400 memory. I see these setups for sale for around $250-$325 all over the place
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2500+ has an 11 multi so going from 333fsb to 400fsb give you 2.2ghz or 3200+ you dont have to do any multi changes for that its easy. if you need or want to change your multi there are two options one is buy a xp-m i have one and its nice my psu is what i think is keeping me from 2.6ghz under 2v (the voltage is all over the place) but it has no problems at 2.43 1.9v. the other option is to do a L5 mod on the desktop chip and use softwhere to control the powernow. this does not work on nf2 mobos but it does work on via based boards.
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