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ES

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Since: Jan 27, 2004
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 2:55 am
Post subject: advice on gaming system upgrade
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Hey folks,

Let's say you had the following system:

AMD Athlon XP 2800+
ASUS A7N8X motherboard (for socket A chips)
1 GB Infineon DDR400 RAM (2x512 MB sticks)
Gainward NVIDA GeForce 4 Ti4200 AGP 8 with 128 MB
Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space soundcard
WinXP Home 2002 with SP1

And you had about 300 Euros / 380 US Dollars to spend on upgrading it. And
you wanted to play a mix of games like American Conquest, Mafia, Pro
Evolution Soccer 3, Mediaval Total War.

What you go buy next to get the best performance boost for your buck/Euro?

Thanks for any advice Smile

Cheers, ES

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Chris Stolworthy

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 2:55 am
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What kind of HDD? I ave noticed that those 8mb cache drives do speed the
system up considerably.

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 2:59 am
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Get one of the newer DX9 capable video cards, such as an nVidia FX 5700
Ultra. It would be a good match for your system.

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"ES" wrote in message

 > Hey folks,
 >
 > Let's say you had the following system:
 >
 > AMD Athlon XP 2800+
 > ASUS A7N8X motherboard (for socket A chips)
 > 1 GB Infineon DDR400 RAM (2x512 MB sticks)
 > Gainward NVIDA GeForce 4 Ti4200 AGP 8 with 128 MB
 > Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space soundcard
 > WinXP Home 2002 with SP1
 >
 > And you had about 300 Euros / 380 US Dollars to spend on upgrading it. And
 > you wanted to play a mix of games like American Conquest, Mafia, Pro
 > Evolution Soccer 3, Mediaval Total War.
 >
 > What you go buy next to get the best performance boost for your buck/Euro?
 >
 > Thanks for any advice Smile
 >
 > Cheers, ES
 >
 >
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stacey

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 3:50 am
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ES wrote:

 > Hey folks,
 >
 > Let's say you had the following system:
 >
 > AMD Athlon XP 2800+
 > ASUS A7N8X motherboard (for socket A chips)
 > 1 GB Infineon DDR400 RAM (2x512 MB sticks)
 > Gainward NVIDA GeForce 4 Ti4200 AGP 8 with 128 MB
 > Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space soundcard
 > WinXP Home 2002 with SP1
 >
 > And you had about 300 Euros / 380 US Dollars to spend on upgrading it. And
 > you wanted to play a mix of games like American Conquest, Mafia, Pro
 > Evolution Soccer 3, Mediaval Total War.
 >
 > What you go buy next to get the best performance boost for your buck/Euro?
 >


A killer video card. I went from the card you have to an ATI 9800 pro and
doubled + the frame rates. The rest of your system is plenty fast enough,
the video card is the bottle neck.

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ES

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:09 pm
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Thanks to everyone who replied. I just took your advice and ordered an
original ATI 9800 Pro. I'll also look into getting a faster hard drive.

Cheers!

ES

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 > A killer video card. I went from the card you have to an ATI 9800 pro and
 > doubled + the frame rates. The rest of your system is plenty fast enough,
 > the video card is the bottle neck.
 >
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 >
 > Stacey
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