PC Performance Increasing : Buying New CPU,Motherboard and Screen Card

[Immortal]

Screen Card: I dont know where can i find it? 
Motherboard: I dont know where can i find it? 
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
RAM:2.01 GHz 2gb

im thinking of
FOXCONN motherboard on socket 775, and processor Intel Core2 Duo E8400 3,0GHz or Intel Core2 Quad

but i need suggestions and pls give me pictures of them 

[Yihka]

I suggest buying this:

a Nvidia PCI-E 2.0 card ... ( 9800 would do. 9800GX2 would be the best if you plan to keep your computer for some years)

Motherboard. before you buy one, search ALOT on the internet if its a good one and what problems it can give.



CPU ... Buying a Core 2 duo would be the best thing to do. Replace it once the quad core gets cheaper! Unless you are someone who does multiple things, quad core might be better.

RAM ... Buy ATLEAST 4GB ... DDR3 would be best over time (There is also XDR2, even faster but expensive I think) Search those RAM sticks everywhere, some are better!



If you do not hate vista or so, just buy Vista 64 bit! You wont regret it, it works fine! It will also give a performance boost with 64 bit chips and so on.

[Immortal]

Well i dont wanna buy RAM
btw arent they better than urs?
I just wanna play good games... not about making a show man 

[Wash]

Adding RAM is the thing that will give the FASTEST preformance increase, I guess..

If you want awsome Graphics, get a nVidia GTX 280 (I have it), it's in the new range from nVidia, but it's quite expensive..

Getting a quad core would also be better for gaming, the Quad Core means you can play games, while converting a DVD while doing so..

[Immortal]

nice thank u very much Wash 

[Yihka]

Well, RAM is very important for new computers.

I myself use DDR2 ram, but I have 8GB ram... It is slower than DDR3 RAM. My motherboard cant support DDR3 ram unfortunately



But since DDR3 ram is cheaper nowadays (it was expensive when I wanted to buy it), you can get 4GB ram for 100 euro / dollar easily.




If you are going to play the latest games and you are willing to keep the computer above the "recommended" area for more than 2 years, get 4gb DDR3 ram

[Bilbo]

Yihka.. you don't need 4Gb of RAM. :P It' just useless since my PC never even requires that 2Gb I have currently.. so 4Gb = Waste of your $$$. Also, if Immo has XP x32 -bit, it supports only 3Gb of ram. :P

[Immortal]

lol

[Yihka]

Eh 4GB ram isnt waste of money



If you want your computer to work without any lag 4GB is recommended


And in 1-2 years game will use more than 1GB of ram (if they dont already)

Currently 25% of 100% memory is used for me ..  8 : 4 = 2 GB being used...

But I use DDR2, maybe DDR3 would need less, I dont know 

[Kessu]

Adding RAM is the thing that will give the FASTEST preformance increase, I guess..

If you want awsome Graphics, get a nVidia GTX 280 (I have it), it's in the new range from nVidia, but it's quite expensive..

Getting a quad core would also be better for gaming, the Quad Core means you can play games, while converting a DVD while doing so..

Nope. Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 beats every Intel Core 2 Quad ingame. So far as any program won't support Quad processor, I would suggest you to buy E8500.

For Video Card I would suggest HD 4870 as it is best vid card on perfomance/price comparing.

For Motherboard I would suggest Asus P5E Deluxe.

4 Gb 800 MHz DDR2 (very cheap nowadays)

And of course 500W+ PSU to run all of those


-Kessu

[Wash]

My Core 2 Quad X6700 Overclocked running @ 3.2GHz would most probably own that E8500..

[martenest]

I wouldn't do it in-game, as long as the game is only more-or-less much power requesting program working.

[Yihka]

Doesnt Farcry 2 use quad core...

If it does that means upcoming games will use it too, meaning that you should buy one now because all upcoming games will support it meaning that a quad core would be best to buy for the future