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Cheese · 06-29-2006, 10:16 AM

ok, my computer is 3 years old now, its a dell Pentium 4 2.8 HT with 768 mb PC3200 (i believe, thats the 400mhz right?) and ait radeon 9800 pro 128mb version. i've built my own computers before so im not clueless and not afraid to go into messing with them. however, the past several years i've spent a lot of my free time reading more about car stuff than computer stuff so i really dont know much about what's out there right now. i just tried to read up a little bit to see what top of the line is and what is decent for the money, but there's a lot of info to take in.

i just sold my integra and i've been wanting to upgrade this computer for a while now because it feels like it's lagging with some things, bf2 is slow and i have to turn down hdr and some of the other fancy things in css. i'm not looking to spend a huge amount, maybe like $500 bucks. i had been looking at athlon 64s earlier in the year, but now dual cores are out. would dual core be something to go with now or should i stick with an a64 chip? i know i need more ram, do i or should i get some new stuff or should i just use my old pc3200 stuff?

i read something earlier this morning about being able to overclock a pentium D 805 to 4ghz and outperforming pentium E something or other chips that cost like a grand. that sounds like something i'd want to do, they used a zalman fan to cool up to like 3.8ghz and then had to go water cooled for 4.1ghz. but i think 3.8 would be good enough for me, especially for the price of the chip. the motherboards they listed though were all like 200+ boards and i dont know if i want to spend that much on that. i wasnt sure if you could still get away with overclocking like that with a cheaper board. i think they used the 975x and 955x intel chipsets. would any board with those chipsets work or no?

also, is the 9800 pro outdated now? should i get another video card or just stick with what i have for a little more time?

here's a link to the overclocking of the 805 chip, it's tomshardware, which i know chem doesnt like, but i dunno, seems legit to me. http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/..._41_ghz_cores/

06-29-2006, 10:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
Cheese Senior Member Mercenary Posts: 787 Shouts: 0 Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: VA Age: 22 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	thinking of upgrading ok, my computer is 3 years old now, its a dell Pentium 4 2.8 HT with 768 mb PC3200 (i believe, thats the 400mhz right?) and ait radeon 9800 pro 128mb version. i've built my own computers before so im not clueless and not afraid to go into messing with them. however, the past several years i've spent a lot of my free time reading more about car stuff than computer stuff so i really dont know much about what's out there right now. i just tried to read up a little bit to see what top of the line is and what is decent for the money, but there's a lot of info to take in. i just sold my integra and i've been wanting to upgrade this computer for a while now because it feels like it's lagging with some things, bf2 is slow and i have to turn down hdr and some of the other fancy things in css. i'm not looking to spend a huge amount, maybe like $500 bucks. i had been looking at athlon 64s earlier in the year, but now dual cores are out. would dual core be something to go with now or should i stick with an a64 chip? i know i need more ram, do i or should i get some new stuff or should i just use my old pc3200 stuff? i read something earlier this morning about being able to overclock a pentium D 805 to 4ghz and outperforming pentium E something or other chips that cost like a grand. that sounds like something i'd want to do, they used a zalman fan to cool up to like 3.8ghz and then had to go water cooled for 4.1ghz. but i think 3.8 would be good enough for me, especially for the price of the chip. the motherboards they listed though were all like 200+ boards and i dont know if i want to spend that much on that. i wasnt sure if you could still get away with overclocking like that with a cheaper board. i think they used the 975x and 955x intel chipsets. would any board with those chipsets work or no? also, is the 9800 pro outdated now? should i get another video card or just stick with what i have for a little more time? here's a link to the overclocking of the 805 chip, it's tomshardware, which i know chem doesnt like, but i dunno, seems legit to me. http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/..._41_ghz_cores/

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