Hello Everyone,
I need some suggestions on what or how I can best spend my very limited budget of $500.
I use my pc mostly for gaming (AOE3, WOW) and the occasional music cd and dvd movie. However, I've noticed that there are the occasional lockups and slowdown in WOW and I'm sure thats because of my inferior system since the lag meter reading is fine.
I'd like to try and salvage as much of my previous hardware as much as possible. This is what I have so far :
AMD XP 1800+
ECS K7S5A MB (4x AGP only)
2x512 MB PC-2700 (333) - total 1gig of RAM.
ATI 9600XT 256MB
2x40GB Maxtor
500Watt Generic ATX PSU (only 6mos old - my original died after 2 years)
I'm looking for the best gaming upgrade I can get for my $500 - and please dont make fun of me.. I know I'm poor I've slowly added and upgraded to my existing system. Just 3mos ago, I was still using a GEFORCE4 MMX400 64MB videocard!
Also, if I upgrade to a pc3200 only MB, will my pc-2700 ram still work on it?
Thanks for any help!
I need some suggestions on what or how I can best spend my very limited budget of $500.
I use my pc mostly for gaming (AOE3, WOW) and the occasional music cd and dvd movie. However, I've noticed that there are the occasional lockups and slowdown in WOW and I'm sure thats because of my inferior system since the lag meter reading is fine.
I'd like to try and salvage as much of my previous hardware as much as possible. This is what I have so far :
AMD XP 1800+
ECS K7S5A MB (4x AGP only)
2x512 MB PC-2700 (333) - total 1gig of RAM.
ATI 9600XT 256MB
2x40GB Maxtor
500Watt Generic ATX PSU (only 6mos old - my original died after 2 years)
I'm looking for the best gaming upgrade I can get for my $500 - and please dont make fun of me.. I know I'm poor I've slowly added and upgraded to my existing system. Just 3mos ago, I was still using a GEFORCE4 MMX400 64MB videocard!
Also, if I upgrade to a pc3200 only MB, will my pc-2700 ram still work on it?
Thanks for any help!