$150 Upgade

Overslop · 20 Apr 2006 at 04:32

Hey guys!

An associate of mine living in Canada wants to make a $150 upgrade on his old PC. He intends to improve his AOE3 performance by as much as he can with this money.

Roughly speaking how would this money be best spent. Exact equipment to be bought would be most useful. Here is the information I extracted from him:

Personally I think he should save his money and invest in an entire new machine but I don't think he will see this as an option.

If you can make some helpful suggestions it would be very much appreciated.

Energize · 20 Apr 2006 at 04:44

Faster cpu, rts games are most dependant on them after that ram, but I think I'd spend all that money on a new cpu.

Something like this P4 2.8GHZ

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116180

God that is one awfull website.

He could buy a 2.4 and another 512mb Ram though.

Overslop · 20 Apr 2006 at 04:54

Thx very much Energizer. I have just discovered that he is actually living in Canada though! :confused:

Man, that guy moves around a lot!

Sorry to waste your time. I guess being Canadian dollars implicates things quite a bit.

Overslop · 20 Apr 2006 at 04:58

Also, what you say about RTS games is true. However, AOE3 is also one of the most graphically intensive games around.

Energize · 20 Apr 2006 at 06:37

Yeah but you can just turn the settings down for that theres a lot of gfx options in aoe3.

If its cad then its even less money lol.

Overslop · 20 Apr 2006 at 16:26

OK, I have passed on the recommendation of that CPU, albeit from a different seller.

Could someone please suggest some suitable RAM too?

Energize · 20 Apr 2006 at 19:44

Youll probably want some ddr 533 since that goes with the cpu, but the other 512mb ram is only ddr 333.

Overslop · 21 Apr 2006 at 16:22

Thx, would it be PC3200 RAM?

Energize · 21 Apr 2006 at 16:33

Duel said:
Thx, would it be PC3200 RAM?

No thats ddr 400, unless you have 2 ram slots and 2 sticks in that case it would be ok as it would run at ddr800 I think. But since its an old board is may have only 3 slots.

Overslop · 10 May 2006 at 20:44

OK, my friend in Canada wants to upgrade his RAM now.

Would two of these be OK for his system?

Energize · 10 May 2006 at 20:46

No thats ddr2. You need standard ddr. I think hes better off saving up some more money and getting a conroe cpu and ddr2 memory. Unless hes already upgraded his cpu..

Overslop · 10 May 2006 at 20:51

I can't seem to find system RAM that isn't DDR2 and 533 Mhz, except for laptops.

Energize · 10 May 2006 at 20:53

If you've got two slots you can use the earlier mentioned ddr400.

thefranklin · 10 May 2006 at 22:24

yeah, 150 Canadian isn't going to help that computer. I would buy a stick of 12 to match it and speed up the processor. But as previous stated, waiting and overhauling would be the only option to get things running fast.

And yes, for us poor blokes in the west side of the atlantic have newegg for our best computer site. sigh.