Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:11 am Post subject: Re: Need to upgrade one of my pc's
21yearsinthai wrote:
I have a duron 700 that needs to be upgraded to play some of the latest games.
I just want to buy cpu and mainboard--dont need onboard raid, video, or wifi.
--and need to reuse ram hard disk, case, cd etc..
any suggestions?
Sempron any good??
The socket 754 / A64-based Sempron 3100+ is a good CPU, it's faster than all of the old Athlon XP. Chaintech makes a good nforce3 socket 754 motherboard that sells for $75 here in the US.
The other Sempron chips based on Socket A are a little slow, a Sempron 2800+ is maybe as fast as Athlon XP 2500+ ? If you don't want the Sempron 3100+ you can just buy an Athlon XP 2000+ - 2500+.
Your old memory is probably either SDRAM or very slow DDR RAM so you will probably need to buy one stick of 512 MB PC3200 DDR RAM.
Good video cards ($100 - 200 here in the US)
[ slow ] Radeon 9600 Pro, 9600 XT, 9800 Pro, nVidia fx 6600 GT [ fast ]
Be careful not to get a PCI-E / PCI-Express video card, you need AGP. _________________ There are only 2 certainties in life.
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