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FRain
July 21st, 2009, 10:05 PM
And i'm thinking of upgrading my computer parts. I already know I can not upgrade my mobo without getting a new everything, but, I wanted to upgrade my grafix carddz and my RAM. I have 2 slots of DDR 266 (or 400, not sure) and an AGP 8x slot (haha laugh at me, shut up). Any reccomendations?
annihilation
July 21st, 2009, 10:11 PM
How much RAM do you have right now?
What kind of graphics cars?
FRain
July 21st, 2009, 10:25 PM
Computer specs next to my name.

Also, budget: >$100
legionaire45
July 21st, 2009, 10:28 PM
Save up and buy a better more modern system. Throwing $200 or $300 more at the computer will be much more cost effective since pretty much any of the "newer" AGP GPUs are going to be insanely bottlenecked by that CPU.
Amit
July 21st, 2009, 10:41 PM
Do they even make AGP cards anymore?
Atty
July 21st, 2009, 10:44 PM
who cares, pci-e 2.0 and shit are all compatible with AGP

didn't you know?
FRain
July 21st, 2009, 10:50 PM
yah brosef i laik trid to fit my agp card into my pci areaz but it goez in wrong wayz so i be like, i jam it in there, and then it didt fit brosef so i tore out a back audio piece.
343guiltymc
July 21st, 2009, 11:18 PM
Do they even make AGP cards anymore?
Sure, ATI recently made the 4670 compatible for AGP.
Cojafoji
July 22nd, 2009, 09:45 AM
do not buy anything for that motherboard. you will kick yourself later. you can blow 500 on a new system that's upgradable for years and be fine.
Warsaw
July 24th, 2009, 06:55 PM
What Cojafoji said.

$500 can get you a new mobo, some 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a Phenom II X3, and an HD4850/4770.
klange
July 24th, 2009, 07:09 PM
$500 can get you a new mobo, some 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a Phenom II X3, and an HD4850/4770.
Worked for me, but I got an nVidia card (better Linux drivers). Eh, I'm also on a Phenom II X4, but alas, my RAM is DDR2...
Cojafoji
July 24th, 2009, 07:19 PM
Worked for me, but I got an nVidia card (better Linux drivers). Eh, I'm also on a Phenom II X4, but alas, my RAM is DDR2...
smart move to stay with the ddr2. much lower cas latency.

wasn't directed at you bacon, was just throwing that out there for frain.
Warsaw
July 24th, 2009, 07:25 PM
Depends. You can get DDR3 1600 with acceptable CAS latencies, enough so that the difference between DDR2 and DDR3 is overtaken by the speed of the DDR3 RAM itself. You are just ponying up a little more though.

Also, yes Bacon, you can probably get an X4 for that price now (but is it Black Box? :aaaaa:). I was just stating a setup that I priced out for Abdurahman back in May. Times are a changin'. :D