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Hi,

I was wondering what would be best i.e. most price worthy to upgrade
in my current configuration:


1 Gb RAM 333 (PC2700) 2x512
MSI FX5200 128Mb
AMD 2500 xp Athlon
HD 2x(WD 80 Gb )
ASUS NF7S (SATA,LAN,SOUNDCARD, can run with faster ram)

is it right time to upgrade the processor to 3Ghz or shall one
wait a bit moer (max speed for MB is 3Ghz)

what makes a difference in performance?

tia/ak
 
" ASUS NF7S (SATA,LAN,SOUNDCARD, can run with faster ram) "


The NF7-S is an Abit motherboard, not Asus. Anyway, first you would need to
say what you use your system for, as I could certainly recommend upgrading
that video card for gaming. You can get 3200+ performance out of that 2500+
if you upgraded to PC3200 RAM and set the CPU FSB to 200.
 
ak said:
is it right time to upgrade the processor to 3Ghz or shall one
wait a bit moer (max speed for MB is 3Ghz)
Click to expand...

Personally I would wait a little while and upgrade to an Athlon64 system,
but if you have money to blow...
 
is it right time to upgrade the processor to 3Ghz or shall one
wait a bit moer (max speed for MB is 3Ghz)
Click to expand...

Are there currently any 3GHz processors that would fit on that mobo? or did
you mean 3000+?
 
ah yes, sorry abit it was

mainly gaming i.e. shooters/rts/mmorpg

that sounds like a good idea, maybe I will do that although it is a bit
pity getting the 2700 mem chips and then not using them.

what about a SATA drive, would that increase performance a lot?

tia
ak
 
yes well I was planning on buying a amd64 system later this autumn
when the prices have come down a bit to have a second system, my wife
are playing to play mmorpgs this autumn together (well I am planning
that at least <g>).

/ak
 
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