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Ok here's the scenario.
I currently have a good gaming rig that works great. I also have my old computer that got me through college that I have upgraded over the years to keep me gaming until I built my new rig. I would like to use that old computer to run a bot/secondary account for some games. Even ones I'm currently beta testing that the NDA prevents me from discussing much further.
Here's the current specs of my older system.
Old Intel Socket 478 mobo.
Intel P4 2.6Ghz (Upgraded to the fastest P4 the mobo could take)
1GB (2x512MB) PC2100 266Mhz DDR SDRAM (Have to check when I get home if the mobo can handle 2x1GB of this memory)
Antec Earthwatts 430W PSU (Recent Upgrade from the old 165W PoS that was in it originally)
ATI Radeon X700pro 256MB AGP 4X Video Card
WD 40Gig HDD IDE(Might have to upgrade that soon.)
Windows XP Pro 32-bit
17" Samsung LCD (1280 x 1024)
Right now the system can handle itself ok in some games with the settings turned pretty far down. I'm thinking if I can upgrade to 2GB of memory and upgrade the graphics card again I may be able to get smooth framerates in games on the system. Also possibly play upcoming games that are coming out not named Warhammer: Age of Reckoning that I may or may not be beta testing atm.
As I stated I need to check and verify that my mobo can support 2GB of memory.
For the graphics card, I saw the Radeon 3850 is being released on the AGP bus. That being said, my CPU will bottleneck the crap out of that card. Big waste of $$$ for my situation imo. I also feel that the X1950pro will also be bottlenecked by my CPU.
So I'm leaning towards the X1650pro. I dont believe that the 256MB vs the 512MB card matters in this situation since I'm gaming at 1280 x 1024.
My question is this. Do you guys feel that my 2.6Ghz P4 Socket 478 will bottleneck the X1650pro? Would it even bottleneck the X1650?
Any other suggestions for cards? I want to try to get the cheapest/best card for this system without spending too much on a card that is bottlenecked.
Thanks for any help.
I currently have a good gaming rig that works great. I also have my old computer that got me through college that I have upgraded over the years to keep me gaming until I built my new rig. I would like to use that old computer to run a bot/secondary account for some games. Even ones I'm currently beta testing that the NDA prevents me from discussing much further.
Here's the current specs of my older system.
Old Intel Socket 478 mobo.
Intel P4 2.6Ghz (Upgraded to the fastest P4 the mobo could take)
1GB (2x512MB) PC2100 266Mhz DDR SDRAM (Have to check when I get home if the mobo can handle 2x1GB of this memory)
Antec Earthwatts 430W PSU (Recent Upgrade from the old 165W PoS that was in it originally)
ATI Radeon X700pro 256MB AGP 4X Video Card
WD 40Gig HDD IDE(Might have to upgrade that soon.)
Windows XP Pro 32-bit
17" Samsung LCD (1280 x 1024)
Right now the system can handle itself ok in some games with the settings turned pretty far down. I'm thinking if I can upgrade to 2GB of memory and upgrade the graphics card again I may be able to get smooth framerates in games on the system. Also possibly play upcoming games that are coming out not named Warhammer: Age of Reckoning that I may or may not be beta testing atm.
As I stated I need to check and verify that my mobo can support 2GB of memory.
For the graphics card, I saw the Radeon 3850 is being released on the AGP bus. That being said, my CPU will bottleneck the crap out of that card. Big waste of $$$ for my situation imo. I also feel that the X1950pro will also be bottlenecked by my CPU.
So I'm leaning towards the X1650pro. I dont believe that the 256MB vs the 512MB card matters in this situation since I'm gaming at 1280 x 1024.
My question is this. Do you guys feel that my 2.6Ghz P4 Socket 478 will bottleneck the X1650pro? Would it even bottleneck the X1650?
Any other suggestions for cards? I want to try to get the cheapest/best card for this system without spending too much on a card that is bottlenecked.
Thanks for any help.