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Jacobman

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ASrock mobo with 3200 venice or a new AGP card like a 6800GT or x800pro. There are no other exceptions of getting a PCI-E card or new PSU or anything else.
 
The ASRock mobo and A64 will be better. You'll be fine with that 9800 until you can get money for something like a 7800GT, but a 9800XT to a X800PRO isn't really worth it. Plus with the new AGP/PCI-E mobo you'll have a bit of future-proofing.
 
If I was forced to choose, I'd pick up the Board and CPU. It also depends on what you do mostly.

But if it were me, I would hold off until I could upgrade my entire system.

Maybe sell your entire system and use that $250 or so for an entire upgrade?
 
board and cpu. it'll probably give you the best performance upgrade.

or nexus realized's selling your entire system is a plausible idea.
 
No its just that my dad is getting a new system so he said he would help me out with a new card. So i was thinking that maybe a mobo+cpu combo would be better for now, but idk. I just wanna be able to play fear and COD2.

*EDIT* Well if i were to get a card then it would be cheaper to buy the cpu and mobo later on vs. a card. But bottom line is that i want to play fear and cod2.
 
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my 6600GT plays COD2 with med settings and 1280x960 res fine and fear plays ok on my systems.So your 9800XT is fine for right now until you go pci-e
 
It doesn't make sense either way. If you're going to spend the money on a new board and processor you're so much better off getting one with PCIe and getting a new video card. Your video card is pretty good as it stands.
 
tom10167 said:
It doesn't make sense either way. If you're going to spend the money on a new board and processor you're so much better off getting one with PCIe and getting a new video card.
AFAIK the mobo he's talking about is the one with AGP and PCI-E, so he can upgrade the video card later when he gets more money. That way makes sense. ;)
 
Soichiro said:
AFAIK the mobo he's talking about is the one with AGP and PCI-E, so he can upgrade the video card later when he gets more money. That way makes sense. ;)

Yes, thanks for clearing that up for him. It just ****es me off when people keep saying no just get a nice $300 card to go with it, and should i just pull the money out of my @$$. Plus as i stated above i am not buying any of this.
 
I didn't mean pull the money out of your ***, I meant save. :)


But yeah, the motherboard idea is a pretty good one, seeing as how when that money does end up in your *** you can pull it out and buy a PCIe card. :)
 
I would say a new Asus mobo if you can $$$ it and the new cpu what ever youur choice be probly AMD 3800+ but the 3500+ will get you buy if you OC good enough. I have ATI but I would get NVIDIA but if you can only get ATI then get the GTO or get the NVIDIA 6800GS its the best card for the money and will last you a long time.
 
FEAR and COD2 are both hella demanding graphical games, I'd go with a new graphics card. Not only will you need those 256megs of texture memory, but you're going to want all the next gen shaders and extra pixel pipelines to see all the special effects. Your Barton is overclocked pretty high, I doubt you'd see any performance increase with a low end A64 chip and an AsRock motherboard surely won't yield better results than your Asus.
 
fuzzba11 said:
FEAR and COD2 are both hella demanding graphical games, I'd go with a new graphics card. Not only will you need those 256megs of texture memory, but you're going to want all the next gen shaders and extra pixel pipelines to see all the special effects. Your Barton is overclocked pretty high, I doubt you'd see any performance increase with a low end A64 chip and an AsRock motherboard surely won't yield better results than your Asus.

I agree. Go for one of the highest end AGP cards you can get your hands on.
 
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