upgrade needed or not?

[ExcaliburFX]

hi i have a question, i have a mobile athlon 2500+ at 2500 mhz (200x12.5) using a gig of dual mushkin lvl 2 ddr400 and a msi geforce5900xt. i have 400 euros to spend for summer,should i buy an a64cpu and motherboard or should i go for a better vga card? like 6800gt. opinions needed thanks.

 

[eastley]

Well if you get the upgrade you'll probaly benifeit form a whole faster computer. But if u got a better graphics card you'll only benifeit from better game play and multimedia stuff. But the card you have is easily good enough to run any game with the right system behind it, and like i have read before in this forum somewhere, playing games at 100 frames per second dont seem to make much of a difference from playing them at 200 fps. Personally i'll go for the AMD Athlon64 cause that are probably the fastest game playing chip around. And of cause you'll need another Motherboard as well.

 

[oldman420]

if it were me i would invest in scsi you already have a VERY fast machine the bottleneck is in the ide or sata bus get scsi 320 and you will notice a difference.

 

[ExcaliburFX]

this is so hard i tell you mobile athlons are an addiction.the fact that im using xp2500mobile operating at its numbered frequency is so nice. but to be honest i saw my friend use a64 clocked to 2500 mhz and it totally smokes away the competition plus its quiet.i was holding out for s939 but realised there is not much performance gain, plus its expensive. think i will upgrade to a64 on scoket 754 with msi platiniu, board, and oc as much as i can.

 

[oldman420]

my freind was over yesterday and i asked him how he thaught the box was running he said "well it couldnt get much faster and if it did you might not even be able to tell". he had a point there. it seems there is a point that you get to when more speed wont realy be that noticable. i still say get scsi and hold off for a while till 64 bit stuff realy is supported. you will notice a lot of performance from scsi. a year from now amd 64 xp3400 cpus will be all over the place and many of the bugs will be worked out. get scsi now save up and then combine 64 bit scsi with 64 bit chip and os.
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