Tom's Hardware > Forum > CPU & Components > CPUs > Need Upgrading suggestions.

Need Upgrading suggestions.

Forum CPU & Components : CPUs - Need Upgrading suggestions.

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Word :    Username :           
 

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.

Signature X__________________________ <-- Sign here please.

Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.

- 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.

Reply to Anonymous

- 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.

Reply to Anonymous

Ditch the Radeon SDR card, it was crap from the day it was made. In fact it was easily waisted by a $40 Radeon LE, which was a DDR card.

If you want a good inexpensive performer, you can get a Radeon 8500 cheap now.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Reply to Crashman

To sum up:

- 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.

Good luck!

DIY: read, buy, test, learn, reward yourself!

Reply to baldurga

not terribly much

the cpu is fine
the ram is fine, alltough 512mb may be an option if you find windows doing alot of drive swapping

get rid of that SDR graphics card... bad for games.

and what are u doing with a 5400rpm hard drive?
7200 is MUCH better.

and integrated sound... hmmm... depends on the quality of the built in sound chip



<font color=purple>All advice I offer has been
Audited by Arthur Anderson.</font color=purple>

Reply to lhgpoobaa
Tom's Hardware > Forum > CPU & Components > CPUs > Need Upgrading suggestions.
Go to:

There are 1101 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them
  • 01:00 vianescute won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 meywd won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 nayega won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 gpfear won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 Conrad925 won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 skythra won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 Ckaz won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 james59 won the Uniformed badge
  • 01:00 snarl won the Uniformed badge
  • 01:00 patlabor44 won the Uniformed badge