Thread: Upgrade or complete change?

Originally Posted by Addis

CoD2 won't play smoothly at high settings with your system, and probably not medium either.

Unfortunately, AMD no longer produce the socket A athlon or sempron range, so you'll have to look around for some that are still around.

You should consider upgrading your RAM, by either adding more or buying at least 512mb of a faster speed. The easiest way is to add more of the same speeds so you have at least 512mb for games. If you're motherboard as you say is only 266MHz FSB, then you'll only be able to add more.

The next thing is your graphics card. You could consider upgrading to a Radeon 9600 XT, or if you have more to spend Radeon 9800 Pro or XT (XT being better).

You're CPU could also do with upgrading, but your motherboard's FSB will put a limit to things. what you could do is try and overclock it, but thats another story.

So you don't think I should change the whole thing? How much would perfomance improve with that changes you mention?
And last but not least, here are some video cards I can buy, tell which you think is the best
VGA AGP 128MB FX5200 GEFORCE 54.07U$S
VGA AGP 128MB MX4000 GEFORCE 45.79U$S
VGA AGP 128MB MX4000 T128 MSI 47.16U$S
VGA AGP 128MB NX6200 TD128 MSI 155.47U$S
VGA AGP 128MB NX6600 VTD128 MSI 167.62U$S
VGA AGP 128MB NX6600 VTD128 MSI DIA 218.57U$S
VGA AGP 128MB R9250 SAPPHIRE 49.26U$S
VGA AGP 256MB 9200 ATI OEM 67.65U$S
VGA AGP 256MB FX5200 GEFORCE DDR TV 74.75U$S
VGA AGP 256MB FX5500 GEFORCE 82.62U$S
VGA AGP 256MB FX5500 GF EVGA 85.77U$S
VGA AGP 256MB GF6600 XFX 173.05U$S
VGA AGP 256MB NX6200 TD256 MSI 170.25U$S