Upgrade time

ZUTON · 24 Dec 2006 at 19:40

Hello People , i am still new to PC , so i am not very hot on idea`s only what i read from magazine`s and that can be mind blowing as you all well know

£700 Max as baby on the way

I wish to upgrade my system , any ways i can improve my system

Logitech MX Revolution Advanced Cordless x2
Logitech Cordless G7
19 "Viewsonic 912B
Windows XP Pro
ViewSonic VX912B 8ms
OCZ GameXStream 700w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply
FX 57 @ 3.0 Mhz
Asus A8N-SLi SE nForce4
2GB PC3200 400 DDR
7800 GTX 256 500MHz/1.30 GHz
160GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 SATA 7200
250GB Western Digital My Book
160GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 SATA 7200
CreativeLabs Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS

As for upgrading my 7800GTX which is running at 500MHz/1.30 GHz , not sure about DX10 , i think buying a high-end DX9 would be madness as Vista is just around the corner , but what happends if Vista is horrible and what if DX10 does receive mainstream support for more then a year or holding out and waiting for R600 ?

At the moment i only play games in 1028 x 1024 res

I was thinking of changing too Western Digital Raptor X 150GB WD1500AHFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache but only 1 or if my motherboard takes SATA II

I know Maxor have a bad name , mine are just over a year old and still spinning ok

I would like to change the RAM , will i get any extra performance ?

lumpeh · 24 Dec 2006 at 19:51

Seems pretty fast already :eek:

Save for that R600/G81 imho ;p

Trusty · 24 Dec 2006 at 20:14

seems fine for the moment but if you have to upgrade. sell your 7800 gtx and get a 8800 gtx. dunno if your fx-57 will bottleneck it tho.

ZUTON · 24 Dec 2006 at 20:18

Thermaltake said:
seems fine for the moment but if you have to upgrade. sell your 7800 gtx and get a 8800 gtx. dunno if your fx-57 will bottleneck it tho.

Hope someone can tell me if my FX57 will run ok with 8800 GTX ? ie bottle neck , not sure what that means so i hope someone can tell me or explain , sorry to be thick

Trusty · 24 Dec 2006 at 22:48

Bottlenecking is just when one component isnt running to its full potential due to another component holding it back basically.

I.E, a football team probably wont win the premiership if they have an amazing goalie but a rubbish defense!

Anyways, the gtx and the cpu need to work together for games, so the fx-57 could hold it back.

Actually i think it would hold it back, would need probably a 6600 in there for it to be working to its max!

ZUTON · 24 Dec 2006 at 23:04

would it say or not if i visited Nvidia web-site to see if i can run my FX57 with 88GTX ?

Trusty · 24 Dec 2006 at 23:10

no it wouldnt mate.

Dark_Angel · 25 Dec 2006 at 00:14

Assuming you have PCI-E, and a good enough PSU, then the FX-57 should run. It will be a bit to slow to really fully use the GTX, so I would recommend saving a few bucks, and getting the GTS instead. Which is a stonking card.