So my rig is nearly two years old now, and I'm starting to run into major problems. My mobo only supports socket 754 and AGP Graphics, and my CPU and GFX are becoming outdated, at least for the newer, more demanding games. Here are the specs:
I will have probably ~$300 to spend to upgrade my rig I built from Newegg. The only things I've really upgraded in the past two years are a Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra from a Radeon 9800PRO and +1GB of additional RAM onto the 1 GB I had from the beginning. Specs are:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ "Newcastle" 2.0GHz Socket 754 Processor
2.00GB DDR 400 SDRAM
NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra 256-bit 256MB DDR3
Windows XP
I'm pretty limited and I understand that it's a pretty old rig, but I can't really afford a complete upgrade... I'm eyeing the ATI X1950PRO 512MB graphics card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814103024) but I'm not sure which is more necessary - a processor upgrade or a graphics upgrade, especially for V:SOH, which forces me to run on lowest settings. Any advice?
I will have probably ~$300 to spend to upgrade my rig I built from Newegg. The only things I've really upgraded in the past two years are a Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra from a Radeon 9800PRO and +1GB of additional RAM onto the 1 GB I had from the beginning. Specs are:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ "Newcastle" 2.0GHz Socket 754 Processor
2.00GB DDR 400 SDRAM
NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra 256-bit 256MB DDR3
Windows XP
I'm pretty limited and I understand that it's a pretty old rig, but I can't really afford a complete upgrade... I'm eyeing the ATI X1950PRO 512MB graphics card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814103024) but I'm not sure which is more necessary - a processor upgrade or a graphics upgrade, especially for V:SOH, which forces me to run on lowest settings. Any advice?