My gaming pc

[Anonymous]

I know its older than most of your brilliant pcs, but it can play HL2 alright, so im happy.

Asus K8V SE Deluxe (non aria, sry)
Athlon 64 +3000, socket 754, 2.3ghz overclocked (aria)
1gb Aria value ram
Radeon 9250 (my other post shows that im upgrading to a 512mb X1600Pro.) Non aria sry.
DL DVD writer from aria.
80gb hard drive from aria
40gb old backup drive
x64 windows (dont moan at the ram bottleneck, dont want to go illegal on XP, and was using linux, need to use it so i can game. waiting for a cheap vista when i make my new system.)


Upgrading in the summer to: (if no new sockets and cpus come out)

X4200 X2 (or more powerful if i can) socket 940(am2)
(any £70 mobo)
(OCZ 1gb ram)
(X1600 bravo, probibly going to be something completely different, seeing as how fast the market changes, must be a DX10 card tho)
(stock cooling until i hate my cpu, and overclock it coz i think its too slow.)
Vista,(hate windows) but cant afford to buy a gaming emulator for linux.
(SATA 2 drive, any size i can get cheaply.)

A almost full upgrade, apart from DVD drive and extra hard drives.

[Barley]

You'll be needing 2GB of RAM, not 1GB.

[Galoku]

wow sounds pretty good.. but if you are going for the X1600pro you might aswel go all the way for X1900 or wait for those thingamajigs.. what they called again..?... The DX10 GFX :shock: :shock: :shock:

[mac124]

X1600pro is pants tbh sorry but it is there are much better cards out there for the same money or less, 7300gt being the case in point.

Either get a 7300gt ddr3, it MUST be ddr3 or look at getting something even more powerful as previously suggested.

If you don't believe me about how bad a 1600pro is check this out.

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=3694&s=4 note the 7600gs beats it quite convincingly.

I also posted some links in this thread (http://www.aria.co.uk/lucy/viewtopic.php?t=589) too, so compare how the 7300gt ddr3 does to the 7600gs in that thread then see how the 7600gs compares the the 1600pro in the linky above.

[Anonymous]

Is there a point to buying cheap 2gb instead of good 1gb?

Also, there is no agp version in ddr3, if you didnt know, the largest ram interface is ddr2, in agp.

[mac124]

I'd recommend 7600gs then for around the same price.

I assume you will be moving to pcie come upgrade to new pc time then :wink: sorry im a bit out of touch with agp technology :shock:


If your not overclocking the 2gb of any ram would be preferable for games and even if you are you can run the memory on a divider to keep it at stock(ish) speeds.

[Barley]

Yeah, what mac said, some newish games, and probably all the forthcoming games will require 2GB of RAM, it's a good investment to make now.

[Anonymous]

I need an agp for now, but when i fully upgrade it will be to a better pci-e card. Also, thanks for the ram advice, that was worthwhile to know.