theonetruewill
07-06-2007, 11:09 PM
OK, my mate has a fairly old PC and plays BF2142 for most of the day:rolleyes:, hence his gfx card hasn't needed to be super (bear in mind he is amazed at the new performance since he formerly had an X550)
he currently has;
Foxconn Motherboard - I will find the exact model, but it is fairly low end
AMD Athlon64 3000+ (S939) @stock, he refuses to oc:shadedshu........:p
2x512MB DDR (I will find out the speeds!)
Inno3d 7600GT (my former one - oc's like hell itself is urging it on) EDIT: sorry, it's pci-e
250GB Hitachi 7K250
350Watt CoolerMaster
Stock HSF for the CPU
WinXP Pro
He has got about £80-100 to spend and asked me for advice. I asked him the usual questions and it came down to some points I;ds like to discuss.
Now I'm a fan of dual-core so I suggested a 3800+ X2 (£50~) but to be honest he doesn't use multithreaded applications and doesn't multitask on his computer that much. For me that all chnaged once I was able to multitask, but of course everyone's different. So the other choice was the 4000+ single core. He plays games and regular college work mostly on the machine. However he does play Supreme Commander and it lags quite a bit. No this isn;t all to do with the gfx card as it ran with far less lag on my system. Due to this I recommmend the dual-core again as this drastically improves performance in this game. It is one of his favourites but of course he doesn't think it's worth spending a lot more on a much higher spec gfx card etc to keep it running fast.
I also recommeded another 2x512MB of RAM. I reckon this will help (especially with BF2142 and SupCom), but what do you guys think?
What would you do with that sort of cash for upgrades? Saving up takes too long for him:rolleyes: so something now and not the usual "wait a month or two" option please. Single Core or dual-core? More RAM? New Motherboard? Or just a waste of the cash?
he currently has;
Foxconn Motherboard - I will find the exact model, but it is fairly low end
AMD Athlon64 3000+ (S939) @stock, he refuses to oc:shadedshu........:p
2x512MB DDR (I will find out the speeds!)
Inno3d 7600GT (my former one - oc's like hell itself is urging it on) EDIT: sorry, it's pci-e
250GB Hitachi 7K250
350Watt CoolerMaster
Stock HSF for the CPU
WinXP Pro
He has got about £80-100 to spend and asked me for advice. I asked him the usual questions and it came down to some points I;ds like to discuss.
Now I'm a fan of dual-core so I suggested a 3800+ X2 (£50~) but to be honest he doesn't use multithreaded applications and doesn't multitask on his computer that much. For me that all chnaged once I was able to multitask, but of course everyone's different. So the other choice was the 4000+ single core. He plays games and regular college work mostly on the machine. However he does play Supreme Commander and it lags quite a bit. No this isn;t all to do with the gfx card as it ran with far less lag on my system. Due to this I recommmend the dual-core again as this drastically improves performance in this game. It is one of his favourites but of course he doesn't think it's worth spending a lot more on a much higher spec gfx card etc to keep it running fast.
I also recommeded another 2x512MB of RAM. I reckon this will help (especially with BF2142 and SupCom), but what do you guys think?
What would you do with that sort of cash for upgrades? Saving up takes too long for him:rolleyes: so something now and not the usual "wait a month or two" option please. Single Core or dual-core? More RAM? New Motherboard? Or just a waste of the cash?