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"Upgrade advice welcome"

Hi, note to those who have been following the 256-512mb graphics thread i started, I did well at my art exhibition and now have £500+ to spend upgrading my PC. Wahoo.

Anyway here are my current specs;

AMD Athlon XP2000+ (1.67ghz) processor

512 ram

nvidia ge force 4mmx 440-se

Dont need any peripherals just a kick ass machine that will do Half life 2 and the rest of the upcoming games justice.

Cheers Dedhed.

Also, wait for the socket 939 Atlon64s and buy a mobo that uses that, I don't know why it's better but i'm sure other forumite will be able to point it out.

Actually I think it's better to wait for the PCI Express boards to come out; they should be due late Summer from what I've heard, well before HL2 comes out. PCI Ex graphic cards should come soon after, and while they won't offer any performance increase, the set will bode well for future upgrades.

Found the x800 xt for £339 (anyone heard any better offers?)
Anyone know about compliant mother-boards for Athlon 64 processors and RAM upgrades from 512 to 1 gig

Found an AMD Athlon 64 2800+ 1.8GHZ, socket 754, 512 cache, OEM for £109 is this good?

cool, cheers, i'll check these out thanks

In this order:

Upgrade graphics card to the Geforce 6800 FX or Radeon X800
Upgrade RAM to 1Gig RAM

And if you have enough money, upgrade your motherboard to a Athlon64 compliant one, and buy a new Athlon64 processor.

Hi, note to those who have been following the 256-512mb graphics thread i started, I did well at my art exhibition and now have £500+ to spend upgrading my PC. Wahoo.

Anyway here are my current specs;

AMD Athlon XP2000+ (1.67ghz) processor

512 ram

nvidia ge force 4mmx 440-se

Dont need any peripherals just a kick ass machine that will do Half life 2 and the rest of the upcoming games justice.

Cheers Dedhed.