It has been two years since my last PC building obsession... and I am now two years behind the times... my main desktop is the one in red below in my sig with the 98000 Pro. If I added an AGP X800 series video card and perhaps another GB or Ram, where would my bottleneck be?
Would it be my mobile Barton running around 2.4 GHz? Would it be the NF7-S motherboard chipset? And with these bottlenecks in mind, would going from 1GB to 2 GB in Ram give me anything in performance? In addition, with going from a 9800 Pro to an X800 series AGP card give me much either?
If my CPU and motherboard cannot make excellent use of a ram increase and a video card upgrade, then I will noit do it. But if it can, I might consider, for it looks like I should wait another year to build anew from scratch.
Please just give me a sense of what is going on in my system in terms of performance and limitations. NWN2 will likely be my main game, but I do like a nice FPS game now and then...
Would it be my mobile Barton running around 2.4 GHz? Would it be the NF7-S motherboard chipset? And with these bottlenecks in mind, would going from 1GB to 2 GB in Ram give me anything in performance? In addition, with going from a 9800 Pro to an X800 series AGP card give me much either?
If my CPU and motherboard cannot make excellent use of a ram increase and a video card upgrade, then I will noit do it. But if it can, I might consider, for it looks like I should wait another year to build anew from scratch.
Please just give me a sense of what is going on in my system in terms of performance and limitations. NWN2 will likely be my main game, but I do like a nice FPS game now and then...