OK john calm down Im not gonna buy replace or whatever now. That's why Im here in the forums so that I could conduct my own research and will not be noob anymore. Once, I look in the processor by its frequency but know I realize that frequency is really that matter as long as you have a nice grfx card right?
My budget is $200 to be exact. This $200 will not increase nor decrease of course in this 1 whole year. This is just an excess of my tuition fee. I understand what you want to pertain which is the futuristic side of the motherboard isn't? So that I can upgrade in the future whenever need comes right?
Well I understand that of course and I WANT THAT really. But since im stuck into the $200 budget, I have no choice but for this setup only
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice Socket 754 $114.99
ASUS K8N-E $ 64.00
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$178.99
So in that price I still have change
. Well my reason is, I am, yeah, a gamer but not into those resource hog games. A slight bit increase in performance if I choose the setup above will be ok to me. I don't need something that I can max out all details effects and others (well in my dreams I want it
) I am just thinking whether if I switch to AMD board with identical price or somehow not too much higher than my setup now will give me at least SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT of performance, I am already contented.
And last, at least I could focus on save money for a high end AGP8X video card although I know that it will cost me much more, at least I will not think anything else to earn.
This is my final choice of processor and mobo. Well again, Im not buying yet. Just picking out now.
So my question is, will my preferred setup of $178.99 will give me a SLIGHT improvements of performance rather than my Pentium 4 setup now? If I could for example be able to buy a GeForce 6600 video card, will it boost my gaming performance from my setup now? Because if I switch to the AMD setup, I'll stick first to my old 5200 while hunting some bucks somewhere
. Besides, Im annoyed to the noise created by Pentium 4 fan and most of people use AMD especially gamers that's why I came to stuck here in the first place