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Vikinger · 12-04-06, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

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Originally Posted by ABBAFAN

i dont know about the motherboard unless thats the mainboard which on mine is
GA-K8VT800 PRO

i have a 64 bit cpu but id like to get pentium 4 or something like that.is that ok with most games?

also my vid card was 256mb fx6200 which should be adequate but nothing of the games i have will run on it.

That board has PCI slots, not PCI-E. You should be able to pick up a nice PCI video card without breaking the bank.

Yeah its important that you pickup the right card for the slot you have or els it wont work on your computer. And like mookiemookie said, You should look for a card that have/support for PCI slot.

Gizzmoe · 12-05-06, 12:58 AM

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Originally Posted by ABBAFAN

i dont know about the motherboard unless thats the mainboard which on mine is GA-K8VT800 PRO

That board has an AGP slot.

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i have a 64 bit cpu but id like to get pentium 4 or something like that.is that ok with most games?

You can´t put a Pentium 4 on that board, it doesn´t fit. You could upgrade it with a faster AMD CPU for Socket 754.

12-05-06, 01:29 AM

Fastest AMD socket 754 CPU is the one I've got, an AMD 3000+; it's 2.0 Ghz.

Boris · 12-05-06, 01:30 AM

ABBAFAN, do you know how fast your CPU is?

From what I've seen the fastest Athlon 64 for for socket 754 available is the 3200.

If you have that already, I might consider not even bothering with a CPU upgrade. If you have something like a Sempron, you might want a bit more power though.

If you just have to have the best, then know you have to get a new motherboard as well. This could turn out expensive though. If you want to buy all current generation stuff, then you will need a new motherboard, new graphics, new CPU, AND... new RAM, since the newer boards are DDR2.
That could become real expensive.

So you options are:

Buy an older but faster AGP card, keep the old motherboard and CPU.

Buy a more recent motherboard with PCI-E, that supports DDR1... maybe a socket 939 or something. They still have decent CPUs for those. This would stunt your future CPU upgrades, though the next gen graphics cards would run fine on this too, if you wanted to upgrade again sometime.

Finally, if you have money to burn, buy the latest stuff, new Motherboard, RAM, CPU and graphics card.

12-05-06, 01:29 AM	#3
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12-05-06, 01:30 AM	#4
Boris Sea Lord Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Hamburg, Germany Posts: 1,691 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 0	ABBAFAN, do you know how fast your CPU is? From what I've seen the fastest Athlon 64 for for socket 754 available is the 3200. If you have that already, I might consider not even bothering with a CPU upgrade. If you have something like a Sempron, you might want a bit more power though. If you just have to have the best, then know you have to get a new motherboard as well. This could turn out expensive though. If you want to buy all current generation stuff, then you will need a new motherboard, new graphics, new CPU, AND... new RAM, since the newer boards are DDR2. That could become real expensive. So you options are: Buy an older but faster AGP card, keep the old motherboard and CPU. Buy a more recent motherboard with PCI-E, that supports DDR1... maybe a socket 939 or something. They still have decent CPUs for those. This would stunt your future CPU upgrades, though the next gen graphics cards would run fine on this too, if you wanted to upgrade again sometime. Finally, if you have money to burn, buy the latest stuff, new Motherboard, RAM, CPU and graphics card.