Been awhile so I need some help.

[DiSTuRbEd]

Alright, I am getting kinda annoyed at the lack of performance my XP 3000+ and ram are doing, so I just want to do a slight upgrade inside. Thinking around the lines of a 64 3200+ and a workable mobo with an AGP slot for my X800 Pro. I really don't want to go crazy because I am thinking of building another one in a year or so, I just want this to hold me over.

So basically a 3200+ 64 cpu(whichever socket you think I should get), a good mobo that will run the cpu and my agp card. My PSU is perfectly fine for this upgrade its a TruePower 480W, so that isn't an issue, neither is my hdd's.

Any help on this is appreciated.

 

[giant384]

umm why dont you overclock if you can you wont get a huge boost in performance. so just save up for the newer rig

 

[Asus]

There are not that many AGP boards out there but there are a few.
I'd pick either this one since it's Nvidia's chipset or this Asus board.

Athlon 64 3200+ here @ 169$ and Athlon 64 3500+ here @ 200$.
Or you could be funky and get an Opteron Socket 939 with 1MB L2 cache for 199$ and OC to the max.

FYI AMD's new stuff will be launching sometime in June with DDR2 (800 speed) memory and new socket.

 

[Fliko]

Get phase cooling and overclock. You don't play Battlefield 2 anymore so it won't affect the gameplay, but should increase it. (Battlefield 2 doesn't agree with overclocking.)

 

[Sam]

If you upgrade I would go socket 939, will make it easier to upgrade later if you do it a bit at a time.

 

[Drackard]

He doesnt want to upgrade later he is going to be building a new one but yeah, i'd suggest socket 939 aswell, however the mobo might be a lil bit tricky.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

Yeah, I am not big into OC'ing myself. I like warranties and stuff like that. Thanks Asus for the posts same to everyone else 3500+ for $200 shit, thats cheap!

Yeah like I said in about a year or so I will be doing a whole new pc. I just need to get a few new internals to hold off till then. I need to buy things that I need more right now than a $1000+ pc.