Help for an old pc

spawner · 25 Apr 2007 at 19:14

Hi ocuk

I have a fairly old system, upgraded my g/card ATI9600SE & pus about a year ago but it sux when playing bf2, loads of lag.

What AGP card would you recommend for a budget of around £70, dont mind what it is

willing to try anything

but I require it to run bf2.

Or could I overclock my 9600SE, and how would I go about it, im sry but im a newbie but able to follow instructions lol

Cheers

spawner · 25 Apr 2007 at 19:25

Well, its old like i said

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz
OS: XP Home SP2
Memory: 512MB RAM 2x256 PC2100 <<this i know i need to get at least 1GB
Graphics: RADEON 9600 SE AGP

What else do you need to know?

spawner · 26 Apr 2007 at 08:35

Cheers for info,

I have only 2 ram bays both taken up with 256mb each

so looks like an order of 1 gb of ram

I assume that there is no way of o/c my grapics card then??

spawner · 26 Apr 2007 at 20:03

Thanks Ulfhedjinn, will get ram & card then

thanks to all who have replied to my thread

spawner · 13 Jun 2007 at 21:32

Stupid question time

A little advice please,

I have been looking at serveral different agp cards and although I understand the higher the engine clock & memory clock the better the card is, im baffeled with the ddr ddr2 etc, I have a ati9600SE atm which is a ddr, but can I fit a card which has for example ddr3?

Cheers and sorry

spawner · 15 Jun 2007 at 20:49

ergonomics said:
yes you can. as long as its agp, any agp card can work.

ill asume the agp slot is 8x speed though....

sorry that may confuze things more

Its 4x, does that make a difference because I thought that if I added a 8x agp card that its backward engineered so it would run at 4x.

Thanks to all whom have replied, glad to know that I can fit a gdd3 & it would work, I will be adding more ram,

I have tried playing bf2 on a server & get loads of connection probs & ping going everywhere, but pings ok if I dont do anything thats why I thought its the gpu & ram that eare at fault.

spawner · 17 Jun 2007 at 18:29

So you have a 9800pro for sale then

I hear you about the processor, but wanted to do this on a budget & looks like I cant :eek:

never mind.

Cheers

spawner · 17 Jun 2007 at 18:44

With the ram, I have been looking on Ebay from the fastmemoryman, he sells a lot of cheap sticks but all high density, he told me to check my mobo manufacture but im lost here lol

Mobo according to dxdiag = System Model: KM266-8235

So im currently looking if this will take high density :confused:

spawner · 18 Jun 2007 at 10:25

Well, last night i got caught up in a bidding battle on ebay, god i hate that, should have stopped when i said to myself to, but carried on, doh.

Well I won a 'Pine Technology XFX® GeForce® 6800 Xtreme, AGP (256 MB)' but I cant find them on any sites to do a price comaprison :confused:

GPU Clock Speed: 400 MHz
Memory Clock Speed: 1,000 MHz

its ddr3 and hope it will work in my system, so im looking out for more ram now.On the ram, how would one know if it could take 'high density' I have looked on google but cant find any reference to weither it takes high density or it doesnt
mobo: KM266-8235

Cheers

spawner · 18 Jun 2007 at 15:59

I wish I could find a gig for that price, the only ones i can see are for 45-50, pc2100 are rare so might get 3200 or 2700 with im sure my mobo can take

spawner · 18 Jun 2007 at 16:11

ok thanks, I will keep an eye out cheers

spawner · 21 Jun 2007 at 15:52

erm, not getting much feedback from the memory thread, so dont suppose any of you could help me please, I have copied my post from that thread

I have scanned my pc using the crucial systemscanner >>>RESULTS<<<
Im a little confused, its showing 128Meg x 64, I thought this was high density??
This is the same stick as the scanner said was fine >>>OCUK<<<

Is this a noob question,
am i a noob,
all answers on a postcard please...

spawner · 21 Jun 2007 at 16:08

Nice program, I ran it but doesnt say either high/low density or how the modules are configured. :confused:

spawner · 21 Jun 2007 at 19:19

another month haha it has taken me 2 months for 18 posts

spawner · 22 Jun 2007 at 21:48

erm, help again

got this card (Pine Technology XFX®, GeForce® 6800 (256 MB) ...)on its way but, been chatting to a gaming friend online & he said 'gpu will burn your cpu' is he talking balls???

im worried now, think i have dropped a bollok on this...

spec would be=
CPU =Athlon 2400+
RAM =2gig
gpu =GeForce® 6800

All i want to run is bf2, nothing i do on pc is more hungry than that.

spawner · 22 Jun 2007 at 22:39

& nothing will burn out because of it?

Sorry for sounding dumb, but when someone puts doubt in your mind its hard to think otherwise.

spawner · 22 Jun 2007 at 23:05

ok thanks Lanz

I did upgrade the psu around two years ago for a COLORSit 480watt, so by unstable do you mean the dreaded bsod?? or just gaming problems?

spawner · 23 Jun 2007 at 21:27

ok, another problem...

Card came today, fitted it within minutes, pluged it all back toagether,
bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppppppppppppppp

Removed side panel, looked at card properly this time

& it needed a power supply

so put lead onto it, booted pc back up, no bleepin i might add, and windows froze, i played around with it for about 1 hour, gave up & put old card back in, thats how i can write this now,

so, I looked at the box, because the instruction manual was a bit vaige, it needs a bloody 500 watt psu minimum :confused:

my psu is 480watt would 20 watt make that much difference??

Also its agp8x, i think mine is only 4x, are agp cards backward compatable???

Im just glad old card still worked lol.

spawner · 24 Jun 2007 at 06:22

the psu i have only has 2 lines one for mobo & the other the hd is connected on, I did remove the dvd disk drives from the psu so only the hd & gpu was on that line & that didnt work.

spawner · 24 Jun 2007 at 06:23

you think maybe put old psu back in?? stock 250watt??