No AGP 6800GTs ???

[arandalle]

It is probably a good idea to upgrade your motherboard to one that incorporates PCI Experss technology. AGP 8x is quickly beccoming obsolete in favor of the faster PCI Express x16 slot. A new p4 board shouldn't cost more than $140. Unfortunatly, I do not think Intel manufactures a PCI Express board for the Northwood P4 processors, which would require you to purchase a new processor as well. Furthermore, you would probably have to buy DDR2 memory as well, as DDR and DDR2 are not cross compatable. (Intel motherboards now use DDR2 RAM)

Regards,

 

[Igetshockedalot]

I don't think I'm in a position to go through the expense / trouble of building a new system... Yet. And no, they do not (to my knowledge) make a PCI-E mobo in socket 478. They are all LGA 775, 939, or 940. So yeah, I would end up getting a new CPU too.... Bleh.

 

[PZEROFGH]

just buy either a 6800GT OC to ultra speeds. or stick with your 9600XT for about a year or two, save some moeny with that 300 dollars, and go full out blast with the new dual core proecssors and 8Gbs of ram

 

[EdoKoi]

8Gbs of ram

if that's not excessive.....i don't know what is.

however i'm sure that will be the norm...

in 2010.

 

[PZEROFGH]

more in the year 2010 it will be 2terabytes for a regular home user and 4terabytes for a mean gaming machine

 

[Nubius]

not necessarily...maybe 1mb will be all that's needed but the bandwidth will be 1000x of what it is now