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I am thinking of buying a Athlon 2100 or P4 2.5 - 2.8 gigahurt machine with perhaps a Geforce 4MX or a Radeon 9000 and 512 megs of ram, what do you think?

I am thinking of buying a Athlon 2100 or P4 2.5 - 2.8 gigahurt machine with perhaps a Geforce 4MX or a Radeon 9000 and 512 megs of ram, what do you think?

Ice Raider wrote:
> I am thinking of buying a Athlon 2100 or P4 2.5 - 2.8 gigahurt machine
> with perhaps a Geforce 4MX or a Radeon 9000 and 512 megs of ram, what
> do you think?

Personally i'd go for the Athlon but i'd boost it to about 2800, then i'd go with definately a GeForce as they seem to be the ones pulling the strings at the moment with Graphics cards and the memory seems fine. Also what HD you getting and which MOBO? two essential things and are you building it yourself?

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20021218/index.html

heres a performance comparison hope its of help

I'd go for the athlon radeon for price and P4 geforce for stabillity and overall performance (DO NOT GET AN GF MX tho) they are very cut down versions of high performance cards and will not make use of your new computer system.

Just ordered the bits for my new beast

ASUS A7N8X mobo
2 x 256MB Corsair 3200 RAM
Sapphire Radeon 9700 Pro
AMD 2400+ CPU
120GB 7200 8MB cache ata133 HD
Audigy 2
Inspire 6.1 6700 speakers
Iiyama Visionmaster 454
Shiny new broadband connection

I cannot wait to play counterstrike at 1600 x 1200 with all the filters on

:o)

Eek should have bought 9500 and 'upgraded' it to a 9700 pro

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1042058170

Ah well youll enjoy the new colours and resolutions anyway :)

I would wait a month or so and either get a brandnew Geforce FX card or wait till the GF 4's plummet in price.

definately Athlon, price/performance is good with Athlon's :)

yea maybe in the summer.....

Ice Raider wrote:
> I am thinking of buying a Athlon 2100 or P4 2.5 - 2.8 gigahurt machine
> with perhaps a Geforce 4MX or a Radeon 9000 and 512 megs of ram, what
> do you think?


I'd get the most powerfull processer P4 2.8 (even though Athalon is the best make) cos game are getting more processer reliable. I bought my Ath 1.5 last summer and it already sucks on games e.g. BF 1942.

dont get a GF4 MMX cos they suck i know ive got one :(

Get a GF4 TIE or w8 for the new GFFX coming out soon

RAM is spot on, dont stoop to a 256 cos it is the min amount for XP to run on

I only have an athlon 1ghz.... used to have a pentium 500mhz u know how it feels plus 512mb RAM only a geforce 2 tho but i dont play ut2k3 or BF.

§n][pe® wrote:
> I only have an athlon 1ghz.... used to have a pentium 500mhz u know
> how it feels plus 512mb RAM only a geforce 2 tho but i dont play ut2k3
> or BF.


Fastest computer I've ever owned was an Athlon 1Ghz. It ran out of legs slightly playing some high end games (Warcraft III and UT2K3 used to give it and its graphics card a very hard time) but it threw Windows around like no computer before or since.