Thinking About An Upgrade...

demon8991 · 23 Mar 2006 at 09:17

My current spec.

AMD Barton Xp 3200+
ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition 256mb
2GB Crucial 3200 Ram
17" Hyundai Flat Screen
Abit NF7 v2.0 Motherboard
460w Enermax Psu
Antec PlusView 1000AMG Case
200gb Western Digital 7200rpm 8mb Cache Hard Drives (1 x 120gb, 1 x 80gb), Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Sound Card
Logitech Z-2200 THX® Certified 2.1 200 Watts Speakers
Logitech MX500
Icemat 2nd Edition
Logitech Internet Keyboard
Pipex 2Mb ADSL

Im thinking that my CPU is a bottle neck, i am looking at a AMD 4000+ with a Socket 939 AGP board, what do you guys think, will i see a noticable difference?

PS i play a lot of HL2 & CSS

demon8991 · 23 Mar 2006 at 09:41

Im not looking at spending that much, i dont see much wrong with my graphics card.

demon8991 · 23 Mar 2006 at 09:51

Yer i see where you are coming from but i was sure that my graphics card was still pretty good.

demon8991 · 23 Mar 2006 at 14:25

Yer its AGP coz its the old Socket A CPU.

demon8991 · 24 Mar 2006 at 08:05

Are these mobo good perfomance wise?

demon8991 · 24 Mar 2006 at 10:06

Yer im still unsure as to what mobo to get, do Abit do a dual AGP and PCI express mobo?

demon8991 · 24 Mar 2006 at 10:37

My major conerns with the board are that there are problems when upgrading from AGP to PCI Express at a later date.

Also i am not sure what programs/operating systems/games actually take advantage of dual core yet therefore not sure if i can justify a huge amount of money on a CPU when AMD M2 is round the corner (not that i know much about that either but its another generation isnt it).

I just need some solid advice advising me what is best...

demon8991 · 24 Mar 2006 at 11:27

I have read the 55 page thread on it mate there are known issues when upgrading of getting blue screens and no input messages on the screen.

demon8991 · 25 Mar 2006 at 12:55

demon8991 said:
My major conerns with the board are that there are problems when upgrading from AGP to PCI Express at a later date.

Also i am not sure what programs/operating systems/games actually take advantage of dual core yet therefore not sure if i can justify a huge amount of money on a CPU when AMD M2 is round the corner (not that i know much about that either but its another generation isnt it).

I just need some solid advice advising me what is best...

What you guys think?