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Right first the bad news:
I currently have the following system.
Intel Pentium 4 3.4ghz(s478) 30 capper
1Gb of Geil PC3500 Golden Dragon RAM
GF4 ti4200 128mb AGP
Sound Blaster Audigy 5.1 sound card
Samsung Spinpoint PATA Hard drive 2mb cache 80gb
NEC 4x DVD+RW
Antec Truepower 430w PSU
Lian Li pc60 aluminium case
It was a little better (until my 9800xt died
) and until i had to put my 160gig WD into another PC, but its good for browsing etc. I used to play a lot of games, but seeing as a gf4 isn't ideal for any source based games, I'd kinda stopped.
Now the good news:
I've started a new job so I have a little bit of money coming in. Now, bearing in mind that I feel a 3.4ghz P4 is still a pretty damn good chip (good overclocker too) I was thinking about an upgrade. There are 2 routes I could go down with my setup imo:
Bearing in mind, i'm a HL2 fanboy and I'd be looking to run the game comfortably with lots of eyecandy at around 1280x1024(max). Any other releases coming up dont really interest me that much.
The top spend is anywhere from £300-£500.
Opinions Guys?
[edit: I've just discovered there are a few motherboards available which support both s478 & pci-express via the intel 915G Chipset. Does anyone have any experience with them? It could be a good choice for an upgrade (best of both worlds!)]
I currently have the following system.
Intel Pentium 4 3.4ghz(s478) 30 capper
1Gb of Geil PC3500 Golden Dragon RAM
GF4 ti4200 128mb AGP
Sound Blaster Audigy 5.1 sound card
Samsung Spinpoint PATA Hard drive 2mb cache 80gb
NEC 4x DVD+RW
Antec Truepower 430w PSU
Lian Li pc60 aluminium case
It was a little better (until my 9800xt died
) and until i had to put my 160gig WD into another PC, but its good for browsing etc. I used to play a lot of games, but seeing as a gf4 isn't ideal for any source based games, I'd kinda stopped. Now the good news:
I've started a new job so I have a little bit of money coming in. Now, bearing in mind that I feel a 3.4ghz P4 is still a pretty damn good chip (good overclocker too) I was thinking about an upgrade. There are 2 routes I could go down with my setup imo:
- Buy a new AGP graphics card which will probably see me fine for another year or so, as well as maybe some more ram and storage.
- Upgrade the motherboard to an Asrock mobo and s939 and go down the PCI-E Route. Then further upgradeability in the future is far easier.
Bearing in mind, i'm a HL2 fanboy and I'd be looking to run the game comfortably with lots of eyecandy at around 1280x1024(max). Any other releases coming up dont really interest me that much.
The top spend is anywhere from £300-£500.
Opinions Guys?
[edit: I've just discovered there are a few motherboards available which support both s478 & pci-express via the intel 915G Chipset. Does anyone have any experience with them? It could be a good choice for an upgrade (best of both worlds!)]
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