I had to upgrade, but had to low ball it big time(your thoughts)

JOKERZ · Oct 4, 2002, 03:50 AM

I currently am running a 650mhz intel overclocked to 923 , Asus P3v4x motherboard with 456 meg of memory and a geforce 3 ti200. I have managed to sqeeze 2 years out of this system without upgrading anything but the video card( I bought the video card last year) but now its really obvious I have to upgrade! So stretched out to the max in bills, my cash for a new system is really really low. I just ordered a MSI KT4 ultra, AMD 2200+ and 256 meg 3200 memory, Total cost $338.00. I will be buying a ATI 9700 Pro in 4 weeks. Now, did I screw myself? Or will I see a good improvement from what I had before. Your thoughts Please!!!!

Oct 4, 2002, 04:57 AM

yea you would see a freakin HUGE difference in speed and performance!!! i would love to have that computer. But a word for the wise, get more RAM, windows eats 256 real quick

Malus · Oct 4, 2002, 03:14 PM

More ram would definitely be a good idea. Other than that, it looks good. I wish I had a computer that fast.

Oct 4, 2002, 03:50 AM	#1
JOKERZ DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	I had to upgrade, but had to low ball it big time(your thoughts) I currently am running a 650mhz intel overclocked to 923 , Asus P3v4x motherboard with 456 meg of memory and a geforce 3 ti200. I have managed to sqeeze 2 years out of this system without upgrading anything but the video card( I bought the video card last year) but now its really obvious I have to upgrade! So stretched out to the max in bills, my cash for a new system is really really low. I just ordered a MSI KT4 ultra, AMD 2200+ and 256 meg 3200 memory, Total cost $338.00. I will be buying a ATI 9700 Pro in 4 weeks. Now, did I screw myself? Or will I see a good improvement from what I had before. Your thoughts Please!!!! __________________ ABIT KV8max 3 Motherboard AMD Athlon64 3000+ Memory: 2 256 Stiicks Running@400 9700 Pro Video card(bottle neck)!!!! 9

Oct 4, 2002, 03:14 PM	#3
Malus BSD SMASH! Join Date: May 2002 Location: A rabbit hole. . . Posts: 1,170 Rep Power: 0	More ram would definitely be a good idea. Other than that, it looks good. I wish I had a computer that fast. __________________ quad (FreeBSD/amd64 8-CURRENT): Intel Q6600 - Asus P5E-VM HDMI - 2x2 GB Kingston PC6400 DDR2 Ram - Seagate 320GB 7200RPM HD - 2xSeagate 1TB 7200RPM HD in RAID 1 via ZFS - Lite-On 20x DVD Multi Recorder - Coolermaster Centurion 5 router (FreeBSD/amd64 8-CURRENT): Intel E4500 - Intel D945GCNL - 2 GB PC6400 Mushkin Ram - Lite-On 48x24x48x16 - Seagate 320GB 7200RPM HD - Silverstone SST-SG02-F wanderer (FreeBSD/i386 7-CURRENT): Lenovo Thinkpad T61p mini (OS X 10.5): Intel Core 2 Duo @ 1.8Ghz, 4 GB Mushkin PC5400 Ram - Headroom MicroDAC Portable sound: Rockboxed iPod Video -> Westone UM2's Not-So-Portable Sound: Headroon MicroDAC -> Singlepower PPX3-SLAM -> Grado RS-1's or Beyerdynamic DT-880's Very-Not-Portable-Sound: Squeezebox v3 -> Denon AVR-1507 -> B&W 683's & Sunfire HRS-10

Oct 4, 2002, 04:57 AM	#2
generalstupid Guest Posts: n/a	yea you would see a freakin HUGE difference in speed and performance!!! i would love to have that computer. But a word for the wise, get more RAM, windows eats 256 real quick