My hardware bottlenecks

Nathan Baum · 2007-07-23T13:30:10

I'm going to upgrade my computer's hardware, and am wondering what parts are likely to have the biggest effect on performance. I have a CPU that identifies itself as "AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+"; although it's certainly an Athlon, it's actually clocked at 1.6Ghz. My graphics card is an AGP Geforce 6200 with 256MB VRAM. I have 1GiB of PC3200 DDR RAM. I have a choice between two mainboard/CPU bundles: one is a 4000 Athlon64 with AGP motherboard, and the other is a 3800 Athlon64 with PCI-E motherboard. The latter requires I also buy a new graphics card. I can afford that -- e.g. a Geforce 7300 is well within my price range -- but I'd rather save the money to spend on something else, if I can. So what I need to know is whether the graphics card I have -- the AGP Geforce 6200 -- is likely to be my system's bottleneck for playing fairly recent games. Here, "fairly recent" means games like SupCom, NWN2, Oblivion or C&C3. Do you know? Or, can you point me towards a good resource from which I could figure it out for myself?

Hardware Discussion Technical

Started by Nathan Baum July 22, 2007 12:48 PM

31 comments, last by ExcessNeo 17 years, 2 months ago

Ravuya

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July 23, 2007 11:54 AM

Hardware goes in the Hardware forum.

Raghar

July 23, 2007 01:22 PM

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fortron 400W - 40$: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817104953

400W FSP ATX-400PNF pPFC PSU ATX 2.01 ATX12V upto 85% Eff' PCI-E SATA Ready - £32.49 Inc VAT

Woo, running kindly badly :( Didn't know the price differences would be that high.

These are not exactly the same PSU.