- Nov 9, 2000
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With three kids and wife a stay at home mom, I don't have an unlimited budget. I do have some options to upgrade my box and was wondering which would give me the most boost in performance.
Here is my setup:
2.4 p4 northwood 533fsb
512 Meg
Intel d845pebt2 mobo
ATI 9700 PRO 128meg
Here are my options:
upgrade to a faster cpu ~$80
upgrade video card to 9800pro ~$50
Add 512 Meg ram ~$80
swap ATA HD for SATA HD ~$50
Possible motherboard upgrade although I do not think that is the bottleneck.
Doom3 runs choppy even at 640X480 with all details but no AA. I close most memory resident programs like anti-virus, popfile, winamp agent , etc. And it still runs like crap.
Here is my setup:
2.4 p4 northwood 533fsb
512 Meg
Intel d845pebt2 mobo
ATI 9700 PRO 128meg
Here are my options:
upgrade to a faster cpu ~$80
upgrade video card to 9800pro ~$50
Add 512 Meg ram ~$80
swap ATA HD for SATA HD ~$50
Possible motherboard upgrade although I do not think that is the bottleneck.
Doom3 runs choppy even at 640X480 with all details but no AA. I close most memory resident programs like anti-virus, popfile, winamp agent , etc. And it still runs like crap.