Right now im really looking forward to upgrade my pc, mainly a new motherboard, cpu and ram. I think my video card is ok (ATI All in Wonder X1800 XL) My Specs are: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Overclocked to 2.01Ghz Socket 939 2x 512 MB Great Value RAM DDR (PC3200) EPoX socket 939 its crap so i want to upgrade that Heres what I thinking to upgrade. CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor (dont want to go with intel) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16819103773 Motherboard: ASUS M2N32-SLI Premium Vista Edition Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813131163 EDIT: RAM: OCZ FlexXLC Edition 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820227185 Any other suggestions. Also please dont reccommend Intel Core 2 Duos.
id steer away from ASUS and OCZ ive had a LOT of problems and there customer support blows edit: here are some suggestions mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813136014 CPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16819103771 RAM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820146673 how are u set on a video card?
I don't think you have to spend that much for a good nforce motherboard. try this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813136014 in fact, you don't even need an nforce motherboard, unless you have SLi. I'd suggest a good Micron kit of RAM, I'll find some thing later, and like a 3800+ or 4200+ X2 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103741). Also, look for a solid HS&F. You can just overclock your CPU and that can hold you over til K8L.
since you're getting a new baord and a new CPU... c2d e6600 2GB DDR2 RAM DFI Infinity 975X/G revision 2 or wait until monday since AMD is supposedly announcing K10 CPUs that day. If there are solid performance numbers buying an AM2 setup might be wise, then just plop in K10 when it comes out.
you may want to upgrade it, depending on exactly what you do (intensive gaming or graphics stuff would be a good reason to upgrade it.)
his card is good enough, just flash ti to an x1800XT and he can probably put off an upgrade for quite some time. to, i dunno the same time Better DX10 cards are in production and are more economical(G81 and R600)
it would be cost effective to upgrade to lets say and evga 7900gs (and then when the time comes to stepup to a better card) i mean the card i mentioned its only 134$ after rebate on newegg.
x1800XT>7900GS in performance though. gosh... you people... just because you HAVE money doesn't mean you need to spend it ASAP... prices are always coming down and stuff is getting cheaper faster and more efficient. If you have something good enough, there is no reason to constantly swap. again, he should be able to unlock 4 pipelines on that x1800XL to effectively make it into an x1800XT and then... BAM
http://google.com http://www.pureoverclock.com/article36-8.html and the x1800s are apparently OCing monsters too... a 7900GS is between a 7800GT and a 7900GT FYI
i knew the 7900gs is between the 7800 and 7900GT but i just wasnt sure what the closet nvidia card would be to his x1800
