Possible Upgrade

Computer Forum General Hardware
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I’ve decided it’s time for a bit of an upgrade. I am a complete dumbass so I need help :smiley:

Current Specs : (I don’t know what is relevant so just copied and pasted important looking things haha)

Processor: x86 Family 6 Model 6 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~1600 Mhz

Total Physical Memory: 256.00 MB

Total Virtual Memory: 2.00 GB

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
80GB Hard drive

Well I hope that helps. I am on a tight budget of around £100 so any ideas would be great. You’re going to have to hold my hand through this because I am a noob :slight_smile:

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I’d look into bumping the RAM up to 512MB and upgrading to something like a Radeon 9600Pro if you’re into gaming much at all.

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Cheers B, that’s what I was considering :slight_smile:

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Here are 3 ideas: 512MB mem, 6200 w/ 256MB vram, or 6600 w/ 128MB DDR3 vram. I’d personally go with the 6600 myself, a very nice value, and the addition of DDR3 compaired to DDR is an extra perk. Hope this help.
Cheers Matt

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Thankyou so much :slight_smile: That really helps because I am useless at finding things to get. I will order them soon :slight_smile: I am supposed to spend my allowance on clothes but ah, what can ya do!

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Great Matt! Happy to help. Let us know when you get the stuff.

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If i got that graphics card could I play games such as half life 2 and doom 3 on reasonably good settings?

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i wouldn’t get any product made by PNY. I don’t know of any good things from PNY.

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Do you have any other suggestions for a graphics card at around the £75 mark? I am ordering the memory as soon as I get money though but I’m still undecided about which card to get.

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personally, I’d stay away from 6200’s, 6600’s are good if you can afford one but if you can’t I’d get a 9800pro with 256-bit memory.

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Any links? Sorry I am useless :frowning:

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i wouldn’t get any product made by PNY. I don’t know of any good things from PNY.
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I have three great mmc cards made by PNY :slight_smile:

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[QUOTE=ninja fetus]
i wouldn’t get any product made by PNY. I don’t know of any good things from PNY.
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My NVIDIA PNY FX5200 Ultra didn’t have any problems. :smiley:

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for the graphics card, the 9800 pro http://www.hardwareforums.com/showthread.php?t=5576 for around £90, well worth the extra £15!

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Thanks, i will take a look!

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Ture, the 9800Pro will be nice for ya, about the same performance as the 6600, though no shader model 3 (not useful yet anyway). The 6200 will have a little problem with Doom3 on the higher settings though HL2 will be just fine. The 9800 Pro is obviously going to do great. I wouldn’t worry about the brand so much, I only condider what games come with the card, if any.

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DON’T GO WITH THE 6200! it only churned out like 14fps in farcry on 1024/1280 with no
AA or AF, its not worth it, budget chips perform better (aka ones that cost less considering the chip itself is “budget”)

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True, it is a real budget card so I guess your right. But then again even dual ultras get low fps with things cranked up on FarCry, that is a very demanding game.

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mine get like 80 sumthin with all of doom3 cranked up Full AA Full AF, 1600/1200, all the special effects, etc farcry i have not yet tested

oh yea bout the 6200, just don’t get it because there are much better cards that cost less

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Ah, here’s where I found the results, the FarCry hangglider demo @ 1600x1200 with stuff maxed yeilds about 25fps on the best systems imaginable! Take a look, it’s near the bottom of this page. Congrats on the Doom3 frame count though. :good: