General Discussion

Ok, i've built my computer roughly around 2 years ago and i think it's time to tweak up my computer a little so it can function on par with the decent gaming computers, but not go overboard with the price.

at the moment i have:

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+ MMX, 3D Now, 2Ghz

2048MB RAM

Motherboard: Asus K8N4-3 Deluxe

Nvidia GeForce 6800 GS

40 gig hard-drive (from previous pc owned)

SB Audigy 4 (AU400) (sound card)

ok my first thought is to get a new graphics card cuz my main use of computer is probably going to be game orientated...........and i also realised at the moment i have a 350W power supply which gets over-worked and lacks sufficient power to run even current gfx card, so i be upgrading those 2 for definate.

the main thing im thinking is should i upgrade my hard-drive......i know it can be alot more beneficial in terms of space, but in terms of speed and performance, does it make that much of a difference?

one other thing that confuses myself is the power suppy and gfx card, do they need to be compatible with the motherboard?

these are the 2 products im thinking of buying...........

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142228 (graphics card)

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/129282 (power supply)

possible for hard drive upgrade : http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130454

IF these items are not compatible will anyone please refer to what items i should be looking out for which may be compatible with my computer thank you.

Greatly Appreciated

i think that board has an AGP slot rather than pci-e. you might wanna check that.

Originally posted by Zaoldyeck

Ok, i've built my computer roughly around 2 years ago and i think it's time to tweak up my computer a little so it can function on par with the decent gaming computers, but not go overboard with the price.

 

at the moment i have:

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+ MMX, 3D Now, 2Ghz

2048MB RAM

Motherboard: Asus K8N4-3 Deluxe

Nvidia GeForce 6800 GS

40 gig hard-drive (from previous pc owned)

SB Audigy 4 (AU400) (sound card)

 

ok my first thought is to get a new graphics card cuz my main use of computer is probably going to be game orientated...........and i also realised at the moment i have a 350W power supply which gets over-worked and lacks sufficient power to run even current gfx card, so i be upgrading those 2 for definate.

 

the main thing im thinking is should i upgrade my hard-drive......i know it can be alot more beneficial in terms of space, but in terms of speed and performance, does it make that much of a difference?

 

one other thing that confuses myself is the power suppy and gfx card, do they need to be compatible with the motherboard?

 

these are the 2 products im thinking of buying...........

 

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142228 (graphics card)

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/129282 (power supply)

 

possible for hard drive upgrade : http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130454

 

IF these items are not compatible will anyone please refer to what items i should be looking out for which may be compatible with my computer thank you.

 

Greatly Appreciated

I can help you out on this... i'm passing for the same thing (similar config). You can send me an email using my ID in here so we can talk better.

What is your main goal on this upgrade? Games, work, internet, video edition... many many options.

My guess would be to get a AMD X2 Duo core, 4 Gig ram, a mother board that supports more memory, HD with 500Gigs at leasgt (or 1 Tera), Video card will depends on your final goal for the puter... Power source, I love my Zalman, really attends to my needs (4 SATAII HDs, DVD+3 IDE HDs)... not very usual... hehe

About this, the new power sources has some connectors for either SATAII and PCI-E video cards, so no worries about it.

Here's the offer, if you want a hand finding out what is the best config for your needs, send me a private msg or an email... I'll help you out!

but are they compatible though? the motherboard is a PCI slot not AGP, and does getting hard-drive that does like 32MB cache for 7200 RPM improve my performance or is it irrelevant.

thanks.

Originally posted by Zaoldyeck

but are they compatible though? the motherboard is a PCI slot not AGP, and does getting hard-drive that does like 32MB cache for 7200 RPM improve my performance or is it irrelevant.

 

thanks.

You want to see if it is a pci-e slot which I dont think it is,pci-e is not the same as pci.

I'm also pretty sure that's an AGP board.

If you have to keep that board instead of upgrading, look into an ATI Sapphire AGP card. Pretty nice, and they run games like EQII, WoW and even Vanguard on most the highest levels.

But in my personal opinion, save us some scratch for a whole new system.

Originally posted by ZDPhoenix

I'm also pretty sure that's an AGP board.

If you have to keep that board instead of upgrading, look into an ATI Sapphire AGP card. Pretty nice, and they run games like EQII, WoW and even Vanguard on most the highest levels.

But in my personal opinion, save us some scratch for a whole new system.

 

Aye,

If he can afford to, he can canabalize whatever parts he can, and grab newer parts to at least get ahead of the curve a bit.

Tbh m8 I would  say save up and buy yourself a new system,yes ppl can say to buy this and that but tbh you need a whole new unit and maybe now is the time.

Originally posted by daylight01

Tbh m8 I would  say save up and buy yourself a new system,yes ppl can say to buy this and that but tbh you need a whole new unit and maybe now is the time.

Agreed.

I agree...a month ago i decided to build a whole new system and i love it.  spend a little over a grand and now have a computer that runs almost everything on high settings.  This is what i went with in mine...

Mobo...evga nvidia 780i

CPU...intel quad 6600

Running 2 Evga 8800GTS in sli...fixing to upgrade to 3 9800gtx

1000w gamerxtreme psu

4 gigs of sli memory