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Do you think there is goin to be any bottlenecks in my system if i brought a geforce 6800 gt? if there is, what card do ya recomend?

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AMD Athlon XP 3200
PC2700 512mb
Geforce fx 5200 oc'ed
Gigabyte GA-7S748-L
Windows XP Professional With service pack 2
400 watt PSU
48x dvdrom
120G 7200rpm hard disk
3MB cable

No you are good. The 6800GT will improve preformance a lot vs the card that you have in there now.

The only future bottleneck I see in your system is the AMD Athlon XP 3200+. It's fast now don't get me wrong but when 64 bit becomes mainstream you are going to have to upgrade to a 64bit system, because games are going to start to jump onboard the 64 bit bandwagon as soon as Windows 64 becomes mainstream.

For now you are pretty much set to go for at least a year. The only thing I would suggest if you aren't running it now is dual channel. I see you have 512mb of ram but is it dual channel? If not go out and get the same exact 512mb of ram and use it for dual channel, that way it your system will run even better plus you will have 1gb of ram and the more ram the better.

nice one Cobra_R. nah it int dual-channel, so wen i get payed, ill buy another stick ov it.

cheers again m8 well said :D

AMD Athlon XP 3200
PC2700 512mb
Geforce fx 5200 oc'ed
Gigabyte GA-7S748-L
Windows XP Professional With service pack 2
400 watt PSU
48x dvdrom
120G 7200rpm hard disk
3MB cable

"Do you think there is goin to be any bottlenecks in my system"

Contrary to what you've been told, dual channel is of little or no benefit on a Socket A system. Your 3200+ CPU has a bandwidth of 3200MB/s...a single stick of PC3200 running at 200MHz has a throughput of 3200MB/s. Adding a another stick to run in dual channel will increase the RAM throughput to 6400MB/s, but the CPU will become the bottleneck. Save the dual channel for your A64 rig - single channel PC3200 is all you need for an XP3200+.

BTW, if you're currently running your PC2700 RAM at 166MHz, your RAM throughput is only 2700MB/s, so your system's already bottlenecked by the RAM. If you can overclock your RAM to 200MHz, do it! If you can't, replace it with PC3200.

Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @ 8 x 210MHz
512MB PC3200
Asus Ti4800SE 128MB
WinME/WinXP Pro

nice one jam
cheers both of yaz!

AMD Athlon XP 2800
PC2700 512mb
Geforce fx 5200 oc'ed
Gigabyte GA-7S748-L
Windows XP Professional With service pack 2
400 watt PSU
48x dvdrom
15G 5200rpm hard disk :
Standere

Well i'm going to have to debate that point.

DualDDR Memory Architecture

DualDDR is able to deliver the highest overall system performance for both integrated graphics systems and systems with graphics add-in cards. The NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM)2 DualDDR memory architecture optimizes system performance by increasing bandwidth and reducing memory latency.

Features of DualDDR memory architecture include:

Highest memory bandwidth: DualDDR combines the power of DDR400 with two independent memory controllers, which yields a staggering 6.4GB per second of memory bandwidth—twice the memory bandwidth of other DDR400 chipsets. Increased memory bandwidth delivers better system and graphics performance, resulting in more overall productivity.

Lowest latency: Both memory controllers operate concurrently with each other to hide latencies associated with typical chipsets. For example, controller "A" reads or writes to main memory while controller "B" prepares for the next access, and vice versa. As important is the second-generation DASP (dynamic adaptive speculative preprocessor), which has been re-architected for improved performance.

Most stable and flexible memory system: End-users can now populate higher density DIMMs, up to 1GB each, to utilize the entire 3GB memory address map. This large memory map allows more applications, audio and video streams to coexist without conflict.

So Contrary to what you've been told DualDDR is the way to go to improve overall preformance for your system.