This is my current system:
- Athlon XP 1700+ (not overclocked)
- 256MB PC2100 Mushkin Memory
- Soyo Dragon Plus (Running at 133Mhz FSB)
- ATi Radeon 32mb SDR AGP
- Western Digital Caviar 60GB 5400rpm ATA/100
- Dragon Plus Integrated Sound
I would like to know what things I would get a big performance increase by upgrading.
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- overclocking Athlon XP 1700+ to round 1900+
- overclocking cpu/memory FSB
- overclocking 256MB PC2100 Mushkin Memory
- overclocking ATi Radeon 32mb SDR AGP gpu+memory
- upgrading Western Digital Caviar 60GB 5400rpm ATA/100 to a 7200RPM hard disk.
- overclocking Athlon XP 1700+ to round 1900+
- overclocking cpu/memory FSB
- overclocking 256MB PC2100 Mushkin Memory
- overclocking ATi Radeon 32mb SDR AGP gpu+memory
- upgrading Western Digital Caviar 60GB 5400rpm ATA/100 to a 7200RPM hard disk.
- buy a better graphic card, now is your bottleneck in games (Do you play with yous computer? Then higly recomended)
- buy a HD, specially if you do hard working with it. Personally I use my comp just for games, internet and Office and I have a 5400 rpm. Works well enough, it produces less heat and more silent.
The rest of the components are ok. Just overclock if you want some more power. Increasing FSB will increase overall performance, but also stress all components. Lock if you can your AGP/PCI bus, but I think as long as you don't overclock agresively there is no problem. You can also unlock your CPU, but this is a little bit more complicate. Just read THG article about it.
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