Possibly Upgrade time ???

conuk · 6 Apr 2006 at 15:30

Ok at the mo I got :

BFG 6800 GT OC (this can go to ultra no problem)
Asus K8vSE deluxe board (754)
Athlon 64 3400 (this can clock to 2.5 no problem...)
2 x 36gb raptors in raid
1 x 120gb Ibm backup drive
1 x gb ram
1 DVD writer

2 x NEC 1810x LCDs

My question is this ... the games I tend to play are :

Rfactor
GTR
GT legends
Lock On Flaming Cliffs...
just getting into Oblivion

Thing is Im pretty much stuck at 1280 x 1024 resolution...

Obviously my next upgrade has to be full CPU - memory - GFX etc - but would an upgrade be overkill for the resolutions I can goto ?

SLI is cool etc - 16x and above no problem - but would I be just bottle necking a newer card and cpu at 1280 ?

The reason I was thinking of upgrading was thought id fried the 6800 (but now fixed... see another thread

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fenderbass86 · 6 Apr 2006 at 16:21

If you were to do a full CPU/MB/RAM/GFX upgrade, what would you have to spend on it?

conuk · 6 Apr 2006 at 16:26

would probs think about 1k as I got the drives... monitors... etc

fenderbass86 · 6 Apr 2006 at 16:34

REFERENCE DESCRIPTION QUANTITY PRICE COST
CP-127-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA4400CDBOX) (CP-127-AM) 1
£279.95 £279.95
MB-046-MS MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-046-MS) 1
£64.95 £64.95
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL) 1
£89.95 £89.95
GX-048-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-PC) 1
£194.95 £194.95
Subtotal £629.80
VAT £110.22
Total £740.02

I think this will easily be good enough for those games. As this is way under your budget, you could think about taking the graphics card up a notch to the X1900XT.