Worth upgrading?

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Currently running the following system -

Athlon 64(1mb cache) @ 2.3ghz
2Gb DDR
x1950Pro AGP

Been considering upgrading to the following -

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1950 XT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail


Would it be worth the upgrade? Is my current system holding the x1950pro back much? I'm using a 22" Asus widescreen TFT so run at a res of 1680x1050.
 
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Are you meant to have 2 Core 2 Duos in there? ;)

You would also need new Ram so it would cost a fair bit extra although it might be mainly offset by selling off old parts. I'd probably not upgrade from there unless you feel the system is not playing games adequately. :)
 
At that resolution your A64 won't be holding back your gaming performance too much.

Depends on what you do really; if all you do is gaming then your current rig should be fine with all current games, although that 1950XT is a fair bit faster than the pro and is more suited to game at that screen's native resolution.

If you also do a lot of multitasking and other demanding apps besides gaming then the new rig maybe worth it.
 
VTR said:
Currently running the following system -

Athlon 64(1mb cache) @ 2.3ghz
2Gb DDR
x1950Pro AGP

Been considering upgrading to the following -

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1950 XT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail


Would it be worth the upgrade? Is my current system holding the x1950pro back much? I'm using a 22" Asus widescreen TFT so run at a res of 1680x1050.
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Perhaps I am missing something, but your GPU is AGP, and the board you listed is PCIE.

You will need to get an AGP 775 motherboard like the asrock one. look in the Motherboard forum at the asrock Dual 775 motherboard thread :)
 
Sorry bit of confusion in my original post! Meant to list 2GB of Geil DDR2 rather than 2 Core 2 Duos.

Gaming performance is ok at the moment, although I am noticing slight slowdown in Half Life 2: Episode 1 at the native TFT res. Think it's mainly down to my memory at the moment though, having trouble getting it to run at 1:1 in my Gigabyte NF250 board, currently it's only at 168mhz. (5:4)

As for the graphics card, I was thinking of selling my current AGP X1950PRO and going for a PCI-E X1950XT.

Would there be a big difference with the proposed system (overclocked to 2.8Ghz+ hopefully) with a X1950XT compared to my current system?
 
ouch - big screen! Must be a strain on the eyes! I think the answer to your question is to ask whether the upgrade will enable you to do anything you couldnt do before? If not, you'll probably find it all a big anticlimax. Youll spend all that time and money and get it running and then things will be a little quicker but not so much it will really excite you! Seems like a lot of effort to just get some extra frames from HL2 - you must reeeeeally like the game??! Why not just turn the gfx detail down a little for now.
 
Thanks for the advice so far...

Half Life 2 was just as an example, it's the only game I've really played much since upgrading to the x1950pro.

Think I may just leave the system as it is for now, give it a re-format and try and get the memory running at 1:1 and maybe buy a Raptor HD, should speed things up a bit :)
 
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