Last Upgrade on a skt754 board... a Good idea?

[Beren]

Hi,

Finally decided to scrape together a couple of hundred quid to upgrade my system. I think I have decided to try and make this a final upgrade that should hopefully give me an ok system till I build a new rig next year.

Currently on a A64 @ 2.2ghz
1gig ddr 400 ram
80 gig hardrive
5900xt 128meg ram (clocked about 20%ish)
Audigy 4 sound card

As I'm on a skt 754 AGP board I am thinking that the
7800GS 256meg card
160gig Sata Samsung Spinpoint
Would give me enough life to play pretty much everything out now.

My main concern is that I have just wandered into the world of BF2 and want to get back into eve. And my current rig really isnt up to that.

Am I missing something really obvious? or is that a good move.

Cheers

 

[Beren]

Yeah I know my gig of ram is starting to be an issue, but then if I start mucking about with that the CPU is also a bottleneck... and then I would need to change the motherboard...

What I am looking to do is make this the last upgrade on this machine so I can then let the good lady wife inherit it in 9-12 months when I buy a nice new shiny dual/quad core machine.

And yeah I am down to the last 10gigs on this drive, and figured that going SATA over IDE would do a lot to improve loading times if I cant do the 2 gigs of ram thing.

I might do the ram thing in a month and keep the gig lying around if I am sure that I can take the 2 gigs forward into my new system. But not sure if there are going to be DDR2/DDR3/DDR4?? motherboards by then to cope with quad core machines.

 

[Beren]

Mmm will definitely bear the 2gig ram in mind... will flog off the 5900xt... and if I can get more than £30 quid for it it will make the £110 for a 2gig geil kit more of an option.

Already have my A64 up from 1.8gigs to 2.2... and thats using a reasonable flower cooler. Not sure how much more I should expect to be able to get out of the chip tbh. I prefer to run a stable system than on the outer limits of what is possible.

Ahh well will be picking the bits up tommorow so all being well will post the changes it makes... I am expecting large ones