buying 8800 GT little help

Hi Im thinking about replacing my graphic card 7300 GT with GeForce 8800GT or 9600GT
my configuration is Pentium D presler 3.2 GHz 1 GB DDR2 667 MGz. Will be enough to handle new graphic card ? or it will be botleneck
Thx

Regardless, every CPU creates a "bottleneck" of some sort. It is just that older CPU's tend to hinder the GPU more than a better performing one. As you climb into the higher end CPUs there really is much less of a bottleneck created and no real benefit to having the top dog CPU to make your games look good.
A 8800GT will still run much better than a 7300GT but you will be held back by your CPU. I'd go for the 8800GT over the 9600Gt unless you are constrained by cost. It's worth the extra money for the 8800 though.
Save your $$ for a better mobo and CPU after that. What mobo do you have? some of the 775 socket boards will run a Core2 800MHz CPU with a BIOS update. It would be work checking out as those CPU's are Cheapo.

I dont worry about my 1 Gb DDR2 ram. DDR2 ram is very cheap so i can buy another 1 GB so that's not a problem. Sure i need new PSU my is 380W or smth like that... mother board is with chipest i945G so it has PCI express slot about 8800GTS 512 forget it cuz it's expensive where i live. So if i want to change the CPU sure im gonna need to change my mother board too so that's a lot of money

OK, so I guess it looks like this:
- step 1: 8800GT+PSU
- step 2 (later): MB+CPU+another 1GB of RAM. Look at GA-P35-DS3L.
- step 3 get a faster HDD like the Seagate 7200.11 320GB.

Even if the 8800GT is bottlenecked by the old CPU and lack of RAM, I think it will still make a big difference.

That's a solid motherboard. I wouldn't get "another 1GB" or ran. You pay as well just get 2 or 4GB of DDR2 800 or higher memory.

I wouldn't go by what Everest is telling you. its probably a board using the 945G chipset, but you may have to crack your PC open and look to see what brand and model it is. All the 945G chipsets I see support a core2.

Well im not strong in money... but i think i have for ram and GPU but very hard for new CPU anyway

thx for your help jay2tall and aevm. i'll keep that in mind

it's Foxconn 945G7MA
Computer it's not some well known brand like Dell,HP....
It's build one

There seem to be 5 models that are all called 945G7MA + something or other, and FoxConn doesn't claim Core 2 compatibility for any of them. This doesn't mean it wouldn't work, but I wouldn't count on it.

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/sear [...] ey=945G7MA

Oh well, you can just upgrade the PSU and GPU for now and you'll still see a big improvement in games. Later when you have saved $300 or whatever you can take care of the rest, for example with a GA-P35-DS3L and a Q6600.

Edit: jay2tall answered first, I hadn't seen the reply above this one. So, it's sure that the board won't work with Core 2?

Take his advice and heres the product.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231098

2x1GB 800Mhz $47 Free shipping. NICE

Edit, just found this. If you want to go ALL out this is awesome.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820211188

4GB(2x2) 800Mhz $76 Free shipping. NICE

Thx a lot
Well Q6600 is still too much for me for this time and i havent seen any E8400 in our stores. I dont buy via net that's my country.
Thx again

Sure it's around 160 euros but still i need new motherboard for that processor

It's sad for the shareholders, yeah. As a consumer I love the trend. I honestly think it will end soon, unfortunately. AFAIK the low prices on DDR2 now are happening because RAM manufacturers expected Vista to be fabulous and to generate lots of demand.

For me it's sad cuz i bought my computer last year, it's not even 1 year old then "ddv" (dunno how to write in english) droped from 19% to 5% for all computer components and whole prices fell down, if i had those money now i would've buy computer with E6750 on it 3Gb ram and GeForce 8600GT that configuration is amazing performance - price

Computer parts depreciate in price faster than you can blink. I'm willing to bet your system didn't cost tons of money, compared to other and whoever build it put some cheaper parts in it and now you are feeling it a year later. That's why I always steer people to build it themselves or have someone build it for them if they are a gamer at all. Anyone who builds a decent system will make sure you are have the hardware you need and even if you have to upgrade a year later you don't have to upgrade everything at once. Like I just upgraded my video this year, I built my PC a 1.5 years ago and had a $350 video card, sold it for $100 on ebay. Its a horrible market, but things are getting cheaper, but must be replaced more frequently.

Well dunno how it's in your country but i see by your computer components you spend lot's of money on them (here we can dream about those unless someone dont buy Alienwere on internet). In my country you can hard find any GeForce 8800 GTX or Ultra and imposible to find 9800 GX2.
My computer wasnt so cheap but i have 4 computers in my home so that's lot's of money spent on computers

LOL. I'm still playing Diablo 2, after 8 years

well the College im planning to go it's pretty hard. My friend says i could lose my health there bcz there is nothing there but studying but i wont go there without computer