Drooling over the Xmas special on that BFG 8800 GTS (£299.61 Inc. VAT)...I was going to splash out on the X1950 Pro AGP (£205) but now I am wondering if I sold my current card and mobo to claw back some monies (on a tight budget: £300 to £400 max), would there be a possibility for me to keep current CPU & Ram and just buy a PCI-e mobo? Will my PSU work with it(connections and power)?
Or is the harsh reality that I need to go down the DDR2 memory, x2 CPU and bigger PSU route?
I know that if I upgrade to the X1950 Pro AGP card I would most likely get 5300 3DMarks in 3DMark06 compared to 2136 3DMarks with my X800XT PE now.
I think the GTS kicks in at 10000+ 3D Marks, but that's most probably with a pretty modern system.
My current system:
Opty 146 @2.7 (1.4 Vcore/on air)
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC4000 Dual Channel Platinum Series EB-DDR CAS3
Asus A8V Deluxe mobo (AGP)
OCZ PowerStream 520w Power Supply
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 250GB 6V250F0 SATA-II 16MB Cache
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 250GB SATA 16MB Cache
Asus X800XT PE graphics cards (AGP)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro Sound card
Dell 24" LCD
Coolermaster ATC-110 Case
Windows XP Pro
Any advice would be much appreciated
Cheers
S!ap
Or is the harsh reality that I need to go down the DDR2 memory, x2 CPU and bigger PSU route?
I know that if I upgrade to the X1950 Pro AGP card I would most likely get 5300 3DMarks in 3DMark06 compared to 2136 3DMarks with my X800XT PE now.
I think the GTS kicks in at 10000+ 3D Marks, but that's most probably with a pretty modern system.
My current system:
Opty 146 @2.7 (1.4 Vcore/on air)
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC4000 Dual Channel Platinum Series EB-DDR CAS3
Asus A8V Deluxe mobo (AGP)
OCZ PowerStream 520w Power Supply
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 250GB 6V250F0 SATA-II 16MB Cache
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 250GB SATA 16MB Cache
Asus X800XT PE graphics cards (AGP)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro Sound card
Dell 24" LCD
Coolermaster ATC-110 Case
Windows XP Pro
Any advice would be much appreciated
Cheers
S!ap