Upgrade

[jlpicard1413]

I want to upgrade my system ... currently I have a lowly Athlon T'bird 1.33 GHz with 512MB PC2100 (266MHz) DDR RAM on an FIC AD11 motherboard ... and the graphics card I have is a Gainward "Golden Sample" Geforce 4 Ti4800SE. I am going to upgrade the motherboard, CPU and memory (on a budget of £250).... the new mobo would be a Gigabyte GA - K8NS (or K8NS Pro) with nForce 3 250 Chipset, an AMD 64 3000+ CPU and 2x256 (or 1 x 512MB) Corsair Value Select PC3200 DDR RAM. My intention is to keep my current graphics card. This is because I think I would have to invest a further £150 in a new graphics card to really notice a difference over the Ti 4800 .. albeit a Geforce 4 and not FX ... what I want someone to tell me is that although Geforce 4 is Direct 8 and FX is Direct X 9 that the Ti 4800 will be OK for a while longer ... and will give good performance with the above CPU and memory ...can anyone help on this please?
Thanks
JLP

 

[Mr5oh]

I had both a TI4600 and TI4400, both ran all the latest games fine. Both cards were even able to handle Doom3. On some DirectX9 titles, the frames per second were a little low, but not low enough that the games where choppy (Still faster enough for smooth game play). The 4800 should tide you over for a while longer, but new games are becoming more and more dependent on video card.

So, it will tide you over for a while, but you will eventually have to replace it.

My Desktop: <A HREF="http://Mr5oh.tripod.com/pc.html" target="_new">http://Mr5oh.tripod.com/pc.html</A>

 

[jlpicard1413]

THanks for the advice
JLP