I have: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (2.08 GHz) 1 GIG RAM Nvidia Geforce 6600 I want to upgrade My CPU and Video Card; But only have the money for one right now.. Which Would be better to upgrade in getting my PC ready for new games such as Starcraft 2? My Motherboard has a 939 Socket for processor and a PCI Express slot for video card. Can any one recommend a: Which is best to upgrade 1st and b: With what processor/card in the 150~$ range. Thanks!
No its not. Lol, 2.08 cant even keep up with today's games. Maybe 2.2. Unless its a generic computer, change the CPU to a AMD Dual Core or maybe a cheap AMD 4000+ For vid card, i recommend anything above Gforce 8800 or ATI HD 2400+ Dont change the CPU UNLESS ITS GENERIC. On something like a eMachines or a Dell, it wont work. Good luck on finding 939's, those actually just became discontinued. I have one of the last 939 MoBo's from gigabyte lol.
I built the computer Myself, as for finding 939's Tell me about it -_-. but if you _HAD_ to pick just one component to upgrade which do you think would have a better impact? Thanks!
I would upgrade your processor. Go buy yourself a nice Dual Core. 3.0 should suffice. It'll run ya $170-200.
I say get a graphics card (maybe an nVidia 8000 series, however an ATi would run better with an AMD processor) and maybe overclock your CPU a little. That should do the trick... hopefully
hey. i have a 2.01 processor and it plays gears of war smoothly, not on full graphics 'coz i have a crappy card
CPU, especially if you aim for SC2. It's generally a good idea to have a more powerful CPU because you can lower graphics settings but you can't lower physics and other crucial calculations.
Hmmmm, definatley a better CPU. But try definatly to get a vid card and a CPU. Newegg.com Tigerdirect.com
