Help for an old pc

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

Lanz · 18 Jun 2007 at 11:03

The gpu will be good for BF2. But dont risk getting that cheapo high density ram, just find a 1Gb stick of PC2100/PC2700 crucial or corsiar value for about £25ish.

Your board only support 266mhz FSB, so PC2100 ram is good enough.

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

ergonomics · 18 Jun 2007 at 16:05

Lanz said:
The gpu will be good for BF2. But dont risk getting that cheapo high density ram, just find a 1Gb stick of PC2100/PC2700 crucial or corsiar value for about £25ish.

Your board only support 266mhz FSB, so PC2100 ram is good enough.

DEFINATELY do not buy that high density ram unless you know 100% it will work. people i know have bought 4gb of it, nothing out of em. wasted a LOT of money as you cant get a refund usually

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...

deadeyedic30 · 21 Jun 2007 at 15:59

Run CPUZ, it will tell yo what sort of memory you have.

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:

Lanz · 21 Jun 2007 at 16:58

I have 1GB of PC3200 you can have for £35, its on the members market.

semi-pro waster · 21 Jun 2007 at 18:14

Lanz, bit redundant that offer since spawner can't access the MM yet as he needs another 230+ posts and to be here for another month I think.

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.

Lanz · 22 Jun 2007 at 22:04

Your new GPU will be great for BF2 (once u got more memory that is)

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.

Lanz · 22 Jun 2007 at 22:41

No, it'll be fine.

If your PSU is crappy, then it might not be very stable.

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?

Lanz · 22 Jun 2007 at 23:11

You should be ok then, stop worrying

ergonomics · 22 Jun 2007 at 23:37

no need to worry about power supply trust me, i was using my generic 'come-with-case' 400watt psu when i got my 6600gt. it wont be a problem at all. its only on the later 7 series where cards to start to eat a lot more juice.

and your cpu is fine. i was using an athlon 2600+ for bf2 with the 6600gt and with 1gb it will run fine.

semi-pro waster · 23 Jun 2007 at 08:38

I'm not sure what your friend means "GPU will burn your CPU"? Get him to clarify maybe. Your CPU is fine and the graphics card won't cause any problems - there may be a minor bottleneck because it isn't the quickest CPU around but the benefits of having a faster graphics card will more than offset any problem.

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.