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| Thread ID: 29823 | 2003-02-04 01:31:00 | Upgrade | norrol (2154) | Press F1 |
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| 118176 | 2003-02-04 11:51:00 | What model Soltek board have you got at present? It is possible that a BIOS upgrade will support a faster CPU. If that is the case then you can keep all you have and buy a new CPU and very good video card. A BIOS upgrade costs just some time on the Internet. Just takes spending the money on the motherboard out of the equation as it were. I admit that you won't be able to change to DDR Ram but this probably won't matter. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 118177 | 2003-02-07 03:35:00 | Hmmmm.... I totally agree Chilling Silence. If you can get the above deal in a package deal then it seems fine to me. His current system is defiantly no slug(faster than mine) and for daily use, actually anything besides gaming, it is perfectly adequate. The geforce 4MX isn't a bad card its just that it isn't as good as it could have been. The reason the Geforce 2MX was such as popular card was that it didn't offer preformance that far off the GTS(i think it only lacked half the texture pipelines or something, whereas the Geforce 4MX is a whole Direct X version behind). Whereas the Geforce 4MX preforms far below the Ti Series. If Norrol intends to buy the above upgrade it would seriously reckonmend changing the vid card, not because it bad but because it not the best for the money. If you looking for a budget gaming card the ATI Radeon 9000pro is good value and Direct X 8.1 compatiable. If you are more into your web surfing and video editing then the Matrox G550's seem to be pretty cheap at the moment and offer some super 2D quality and offer dual heads.(i could be wrong but i think i saw them on pricespy for about $200). Personally I think a better combination of parts would be: Gigabyte 7VA $191 ATI Radeon 9000 or Matrox G550 $241.00 or $55.00(seems a bit cheap to me but thats what pricespy says) 256 or 512MB DDR 2700 $95.63 or 180.00 Athlon 2100XP+ $205.88 *all prices are from pricespy more money could be saved by reducing the speed of the ram or using a slower CPU. |
Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
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