I'm not only a newbie, but also an old-bee retiree and not much tech enabled...
I'm jumping from 32 bit to 64 bit and just bought an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester 2.2GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor and a Foxconn 6150K8MA-8EKRS 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard with 1000 FSB which I will run with 2 GB DDR 400 ram.
I am now running an Intel Celeron D 340 2.93 GHZ on a MachSpeed PT88AS with 533 FSB with 1 GB DDR 400 ram and an 8x AGP FX 5200 Ultra 264 video card.
My questions are:
Given the jump in overall system resources, will the on-board 6150 perform at least as well as the FX 5200 I'm used to?
I am not a gamer, but like fast jpeg loading and crisp graphics images. I also may wind up with 64 bit Windows Vista and wonder if the 6150 would adequatley support Aeros features.
If I should get a stand-alone card, I'd appreciate any budget-minded recommendations in that regard.
Thanks in advance for your help and for this forum.
I'm jumping from 32 bit to 64 bit and just bought an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester 2.2GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor and a Foxconn 6150K8MA-8EKRS 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard with 1000 FSB which I will run with 2 GB DDR 400 ram.
I am now running an Intel Celeron D 340 2.93 GHZ on a MachSpeed PT88AS with 533 FSB with 1 GB DDR 400 ram and an 8x AGP FX 5200 Ultra 264 video card.
My questions are:
Given the jump in overall system resources, will the on-board 6150 perform at least as well as the FX 5200 I'm used to?
I am not a gamer, but like fast jpeg loading and crisp graphics images. I also may wind up with 64 bit Windows Vista and wonder if the 6150 would adequatley support Aeros features.
If I should get a stand-alone card, I'd appreciate any budget-minded recommendations in that regard.
Thanks in advance for your help and for this forum.