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Name: Asakura-2pm- Date: August 24, 2003 at 22:26:40 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: Athlon Xp 1700
Comment:
Okay i have a ? i have a AMD Athlon XP 1700 and Geforce 4 TI 4200 and 1280 Ram yes 1280 ram not 128 What should i buy first Geforce FX 5900 256mb or AMD Athlon XP 3000+
Name: darkfriend Date: August 24, 2003 at 23:03:01 Pacific
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IMO buy the video card. I updated my processor considerably but was severly limited by my 64MB video card and saw only slight 3D improvements. You can OC the 1700 to 3000 specs easy anyhow, but the 3000 remains an unknown OC'r and may not even OC that well. I'm a little off topic here. And I have no idea how that much ram affects performance, so I cannot correlate that factor. dark.
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Response Number 2
Name: Asakura-2pm- Date: August 25, 2003 at 08:50:48 Pacific
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How do i over clock???
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Response Number 3
Name: darkfriend Date: August 25, 2003 at 10:28:36 Pacific
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That's a whole other world. There is an overclocking forum here at computing.net.
Wow...did I say you could get the 1700 to 3000 specs. That may be a little optimistic, but it will do well. Check the OC forum here for newbie stuff and hit google for overclock info. It simply involves increasing the Front Side Bus speed of the motherboard and some other stuff. dark.
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Response Number 4
Name: MTatton Date: August 25, 2003 at 16:36:35 Pacific
Reply:
definetly get a new video card..and as soon as you get it, update your drivers....then your ready for gaming,
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