When SHould I upgrade

[Paul87]

Hi Im new to these forums but often visit the site. With the upcomming release of some new tech sucha s the R600 and AMD quad cores this year I am wondering when would be a good idea to update my system this year?

AMD64 Newcastle Skt754 3200+
1.5GB 3200 RAM
Sapphire X800 Pro 256MB AGP
Abit KV8 3rd Eye
240GB HD RAID 0
XFI Xtreme Music

I like to play games at there best and with this system things are starting to be strained. Sadly I would just upgrade my Graphics card but i have a AGP motherboard as far as I know dx10 cards wont be agp.

 

[uri]

1. About the AGP from what I've seen there is a good chance that there will be a R600 AGP cards. ATI claimed at interview that it should work. (though your CPU could be a bottleneck for the card)

2. You should upgrade when your system just isn't enough. If you can play the games you like at good settings then wait. If not I would wait till the middle of May when CPU prices will drop (will happen on April 22) and there should be enough competition on the DX10 arena.

enjoy

 

[miro84]

hi there and welcome to forum

I suggest you should get a new card now,something like x1950pro AGP ver and then upgrade hole system at the end of year

 

[Paul87]

thank you for the suggestions. Im in a pretty difficult spot witha skt754 will there be a memory bottleneck due to it being only single channel and would a cheap CPU upgrade (from ebay) if possible help?

I can in fairness still play games around medium still but i can see that things are starting to take a strain on it especially CPU, to which id probably go for a E6600 or a E6650 when they come out if there still up for release.

 

[melarcky]

sure if you can find something good why not, good luck if not you can save cash up and get a nice C2D system these days for not too much