Upgrade gaming spec help

super-saint · 12 Oct 2006 at 23:27

My current PC is starting to show the stain on current games GTR2, Half Life2, Call of Juarez etc & I think I need to upgrade..... I have detailed my current spec (bottom of page ) & assume i need to upgrade processor, mother board, graphics card & ram. I have picked out the following from this site...should this do the job or do you guys reccomend anything else for around the same price ? :confused:

Thks in advance

Wants;
Intel Pentium 4 945 Dual Core "LGA775 Presler" 3.4GHz (800FSB) - Retail (CP-132-IN)
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-062-GI)
BFG GeForce 7900 GS OC 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-033-BG)
or
HIS ATI Radeon X1900 XT ICEQ 3 SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-061-HT)

MY SPEC
Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 2400 MHz (18 x 133)
Motherboard Name ECS L4S8A2 (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 CNR, 3 DIMM, Audio)
Motherboard Chipset SiS 648
System Memory 768 MB (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (11/20/02)

Display:
Video Adapter RADEON 9600 SERIES - Secondary (256 MB)
Video Adapter RADEON 9600 SERIES (256 MB)
3D Accelerator ATI Radeon 9600 XT (RV360)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Creative SB Live! 5.1 Sound Card

Pajeh · 12 Oct 2006 at 23:36

Would probably change CPU for Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

Also the X1900 is superior

Hesky82 · 12 Oct 2006 at 23:41

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM (CP-135-IN)
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-061-GI)
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-CO)

cheaper setup and much better for gaming imo

super-saint · 13 Oct 2006 at 08:34

Cheers for your response guys....2 questions

1. Are you saying that Dual Core is probably not needed then as games do not take advantage of this ?

2. Will the intergrated sound card on motherboard be better than my Creative 5.1 ?

Cheers

Saint

wizardmaxx · 13 Oct 2006 at 08:38

1. Core2Duo is dual core
2. The creative will probably give u a better quality sound and reduce cpu load slightly.

Hesky82 · 13 Oct 2006 at 20:03

no harm in trying both is there

super-saint · 16 Oct 2006 at 14:44

Thanks for your response guys.

So if I upgrade to above, will I see a massive difference in performance or will be just minimal over my existing set up?

Cheers

wizardmaxx · 16 Oct 2006 at 14:52

Massive

spb251272 · 16 Oct 2006 at 15:54

Don't forget to get some new DDR2 to go in that new motherboard