Upgrades!

[[AK]Abaddon]

Okay, I'm trying to hold off on a full PC upgrade until next year sometime. I have a P4 3.2 Northwood with 2 gigs of PC3700 DDR memory. My motherboard is a Chaintech 9CJS Zenith with an Intel 975 chipset. It is an AGP 8X board.

I currently have an Nvidia 6800GT in the system, but I just ordered an ATI X1950XT card -- it just became available in AGP format.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814241049

Based on the manufacturer's recommendation, I also upgraded my power supply to a 600W one. (I had an Antec Truepower 430 previously).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817194001

I hope these two pieces will breathe enough life into my system to keep it chugging along for a while

[[AK]Brorlis]

Keep it chugging?? Sounds like a pretty respectable rig IMHO.

Should provide you some time before you have to drop some major cash

[[AK]The Beast]

I agree with Brorlis! I'm still running an Athlon XP 2700, 1 GB PC 3200, and a GeForce 6600 something-or-other. I haven't run into a game with major performance problems yet, though--even STALKER runs quite well with a surprisingly large number of settings tweaked to "on". I did piecemeal upgrades on that box for quite a while but I'm at the point now that I will probably just save my money to buy a whole new rig when I have real problems.

[[AK]Squidly]

I just bought a Mac Pro (quad core) 2.66 GHZ machine, 2 Gig Memory, 1 TB disk. ATI Radeon 1900 video card. Dual boots OSX/Vista with 100 Gig devoted to the Vista partition.

WoW plays at 60fps at 2560x1600 all settings maxed.

Photos

[[AK]Devil_Dog]

That is a real nice box Squidly!!!
Does the cute kid come with or is that an extra option???

Beast - I am running just about the same system as you...

[[AK]Squidly]

That is a real nice box Squidly!!!
Does the cute kid come with or is that an extra option???

Beast - I am running the just about the same system as you...

It's an extra "build your own" option. That option comes with a tax credit though.