Upgrade Question???

[DLzone]

Right now I'm lucky enough to have some extra cash, which one of these upgrades would you reccomend. I'm going to use this computer mostly for gaming. So which one of these would give me the biggest improvement for that?

Radeon 9700 (not pro)
Granite Bay Motherboard
512 PC 2700

Current Set Up
Intel 845PE
P4 2.4B (533FSB)
128 PC 2700
Geforce4 TI4200

 

[Loman]

Ram.

 

[Budman]

You only have 128megs of ram!!!:Q My Video card has that much.

You seriously need to add more ram there,I feel 512megs the the lowest I will go and if prices drop a bit & will add more.

Unless you're running Windows 3.1 128 megs isnt going to cut it.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Loman
Ram.

You should have, as a bare minimum, 256MB of RAM. More is better.

 

[microAmp]

Originally posted by: Loman
Ram.

 

[amdskip]

Up the ram to 512 total and you will be good to go.

 

[AnAndAustin]

It would be pointless doing anything until you bring your RAM up to at least 384MB (adding 256MB) which won't cost much at all. P4 2.4ghz is a very fast CPU and 4200 though not the fastest is very fast and capable of playing ALL current games in high res with 2xAA enabled. If you want more you could get the Rad9700 but I'd wait a couple of months as prices will drop when we finally see NV30 and Rad10000 (9700+DDRII). Going for a TI4400, TI4600 or Rad9500PRO isn't going to give you a worth while boost over a 4200 (you o/c right?).

 

[DLzone]

Yeah, I OC everything. Thanks, for all the answers, looks like I'm throwing some ram in this rig