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I am up grading my Athlon XP system for better gaming, particularly for Half-Life 2. I have a radeon 9200 128mb and the half life 2 demo was even laggy in 800x600! I am wanting to not just upgrade my video card to a 9700 (what do ya think?) but also want to do some thing with my athlon xp 2500 barton as well.
2 Choices of system upgrade +radeon 9700
buy
ABIT NF7-s 2.0 and overclock my Athlon 2500+ to 3200+ for $80
ABIT AV8 dual channel socket 939 mobo and 1.8GHZ Athlon 64 3000 with 2000MHz Hypertransport - 512kb cache for $250
What is your opinions on all of this? Is the Socket 939 setup worth $250? Will the overclock setup give me a huge boost in performance? Would the Radeon 9700 be enough by itself? Any Alternatives?
Here are my specs-
Athlon XP 2500+ @1980MHz 360fsb w/ Tt Silentboost
(CHEAP) ECS KT600- Socket 462 MB
2x256mb Mushkin Enhanced DDR400 2-2-2-5 @ 180MHz(DDR360)
ATI powercolor Radeon 9200 128mb 128bit
80gb WD 2mb
Samsung CD-RW
Hercules 400w?
Windows 98 (yeah I know!)
Remember i have hardly even $100 dollars for this right now!
(Hope I didnt leave anything out!)
2 Choices of system upgrade +radeon 9700
buy
ABIT NF7-s 2.0 and overclock my Athlon 2500+ to 3200+ for $80
ABIT AV8 dual channel socket 939 mobo and 1.8GHZ Athlon 64 3000 with 2000MHz Hypertransport - 512kb cache for $250
What is your opinions on all of this? Is the Socket 939 setup worth $250? Will the overclock setup give me a huge boost in performance? Would the Radeon 9700 be enough by itself? Any Alternatives?
Here are my specs-
Athlon XP 2500+ @1980MHz 360fsb w/ Tt Silentboost
(CHEAP) ECS KT600- Socket 462 MB
2x256mb Mushkin Enhanced DDR400 2-2-2-5 @ 180MHz(DDR360)
ATI powercolor Radeon 9200 128mb 128bit
80gb WD 2mb
Samsung CD-RW
Hercules 400w?
Windows 98 (yeah I know!)
Remember i have hardly even $100 dollars for this right now!
(Hope I didnt leave anything out!)