Upgrades!

2008-10-10 17:24:50

#1

Noobpatty: ʎʇʇɐdqoou; +194|6620|West NY

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.79 GHz
1 Gig Ram
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700LE

Yup, no pci-e slots; terrible, old processor.
What would be the best thing to do to kick up my frames on a strict budget?

2008-10-10 17:34:25

#2

TheEternalPessimist: Wibble; +412|6887|Mhz

How strict is strict? TBH the highest GPU i'd put in a rig with a CPU that old is an x1950 Pro (eBay), which is conveniantly about as good as an AGP card gets

I suppose another gig of ram wouldn't hurt too.

2008-10-10 17:36:40

#3

Jenspm: penis; +1,716|6999|St. Andrews / Oslo

how strict?

If we're talking around £300, get a new mobo, cpu, gpu, ram

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2008-10-10 17:38:09

#4

FatherTed: xD; +3,936|6767|so randum

Jenspm wrote:
how strict?

If we're talking around £300, get a new mobo, cpu, gpu, ram

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i got my 4850 512mb, E7200, good PSU and a P31 for that price.

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2008-10-10 18:09:05

#5

Noobpatty: ʎʇʇɐdqoou; +194|6620|West NY

Jenspm wrote:
how strict?

If we're talking around £300, get a new mobo, cpu, gpu, ram

If I had $600 I could get a new rig...
I only have pci slots on my current mobo.
Anyway I'm not sure, the processor isn't the biggest thing I should upgrade right now? I get constant fps spikes that no one else says they have in games, especially when rendering very open spaces viewing long distances...

2008-10-10 18:16:40

#6

Jenspm: penis; +1,716|6999|St. Andrews / Oslo

That would probably be your GPU.

But what is the budget?

2008-10-10 18:34:55

#7

Noobpatty: ʎʇʇɐdqoou; +194|6620|West NY

Uhh I'm not sure. Nothing above 200 usd...that's fer sure =/

2008-10-10 21:14:17

#8

wah1188: You orrible caaaaaaan't; +321|6727|UK

I would save up for a complete overhaul. You just have to bite the bullet.

2008-10-10 21:21:51

#9

ceslayer23: IN YOUR MIRROR; +142|6628|CLOSER THAN I APPEAR

wah1188 wrote:
I would save up for a complete overhaul. You just have to bite the bullet.

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2008-10-10 22:38:56

#10

Wallpaper: ☺; +303|6260|The pool

You wouldnt happen to have Fry's electronics in NY, would you? You could get a fairly good upgrade using them+eBay

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2008-10-11 04:15:58

#11

DUnlimited: got any popo lolo intersting?; +1,160|6730|cuntshitlake

You would need a better GPU, more and faster RAM and a better CPU as well. I really doubt your system is very upgradable at the moment. I'll dig some newegg to see if you could make anything nearly decent for $200.

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2008-10-11 05:14:37

#12

DUnlimited: got any popo lolo intersting?; +1,160|6730|cuntshitlake

I take it you won't need hard drive(s) / Case / Optical drives?

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Links:

PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6817341012
Memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820145177
Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 813128078R
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6819116052
GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814127306

I'd hurry. That's around $210 after mail-in-rebates. Won't be possible when they go off. If you want to go even cheaper, change the CPU to E1200. Not very good but certainly 4 times better than your current. Overall that computer is pretty leet, especially for the price.

That mobo/psu will leave you room to upgrade your CPU and video card later if needed.

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2008-10-11 05:16:21

#13

Noobpatty: ʎʇʇɐdqoou; +194|6620|West NY

DeathUnlimited wrote:
You would need a better GPU, more and faster RAM and a better CPU as well. I really doubt your system is very upgradable at the moment. I'll dig some newegg to see if you could make anything nearly decent for $200.

I guess I'll just wait until I get a job...right now I really have no source of income and I'm stuck playing counter strike source or some old 360 game...I just wanna up my frames for source so it isn't so annoying to be at like 20 frames and have it jump anywhere from there to 10 to 60 in a matter of seconds...on all low graphical settings

2008-10-11 05:18:23

#14

DUnlimited: got any popo lolo intersting?; +1,160|6730|cuntshitlake

Noobpatty wrote:
DeathUnlimited wrote:
You would need a better GPU, more and faster RAM and a better CPU as well. I really doubt your system is very upgradable at the moment. I'll dig some newegg to see if you could make anything nearly decent for $200.
I guess I'll just wait until I get a job...right now I really have no source of income and I'm stuck playing counter strike source or some old 360 game...I just wanna up my frames for source so it isn't so annoying to be at like 20 frames and have it jump anywhere from there to 10 to 60 in a matter of seconds...on all low graphical settings

^^ check my post ^^

That thing would run BF2 all high, and almost anything you throw at it on medium.

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2008-10-11 05:22:06

#15

Noobpatty: ʎʇʇɐdqoou; +194|6620|West NY

DeathUnlimited wrote:
Noobpatty wrote:
DeathUnlimited wrote:
You would need a better GPU, more and faster RAM and a better CPU as well. I really doubt your system is very upgradable at the moment. I'll dig some newegg to see if you could make anything nearly decent for $200.
I guess I'll just wait until I get a job...right now I really have no source of income and I'm stuck playing counter strike source or some old 360 game...I just wanna up my frames for source so it isn't so annoying to be at like 20 frames and have it jump anywhere from there to 10 to 60 in a matter of seconds...on all low graphical settings
^^ check my post ^^

That thing would run BF2 all high, and almost anything you throw at it on medium.

That is some crazy stuff you found there. I'll have to look it over later

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