Ok right now I play alot of computer games and plan on doing alot of video editing etc. I use 2 different computers and I would like to upgrade one of them and I am on a 200-300$ budget. Here are the specs of the computers.
home made built over a year ago.
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
Asus A7N8X Motherboard
768 MB DDR 2700 ram
ATI Radeon 9600 SE 128 mb 8x agp
120GB Maxtor hard drive
160GB Maxtir hard drive
Windows XP pro
Pacific Digital 8x DVDRW Drive
17" Samsung LCD
Logitech mx510
The other computer is a dell dimension 3000 with
p4 2.8 533 fsb
80GB hard drive
512 MB DDR pc3200 400 mhz dual channel memory
Intel Extreme graphics 2
(I bought this not knowing there was no agp slot and it appears that the memory only runs at 333mhz)
What I was planning on doing with the athlon is getting an athlon xp 3200 and putting the dells memory into it and then getting either a radeon 9800 pro (OEM probably) or a Radeon X700 XT or I could get a new motherboard and then get the athlon 3200 64 instead of the xp. Another nice part about the athlon 64 is that I can get 1024 cache memory instead of the 512 on the athlon xp.
With the dell I could get a new motherboard and sell the current one on ebay then basically do the same things im doing to the athlon except with a p4 2.8. The only problem with this is the memory in it only runs at 333 mhz because it is 533 fsb.
Any suggestions would help also looking for some suggestions on the video card but I did not want to spend more then 200$ on the video card. Also if someone can tell me if the dell dimension 3000 has a pci express architecture it would help. (im not at home so i cant check). I really like the radeon x700 XT because it uses the GDDR3 memory and is PCI EXpress which as I read is faster then 8x agp but the downside to this is I will definatly need a new motherboard.
home made built over a year ago.
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
Asus A7N8X Motherboard
768 MB DDR 2700 ram
ATI Radeon 9600 SE 128 mb 8x agp
120GB Maxtor hard drive
160GB Maxtir hard drive
Windows XP pro
Pacific Digital 8x DVDRW Drive
17" Samsung LCD
Logitech mx510
The other computer is a dell dimension 3000 with
p4 2.8 533 fsb
80GB hard drive
512 MB DDR pc3200 400 mhz dual channel memory
Intel Extreme graphics 2
(I bought this not knowing there was no agp slot and it appears that the memory only runs at 333mhz)
What I was planning on doing with the athlon is getting an athlon xp 3200 and putting the dells memory into it and then getting either a radeon 9800 pro (OEM probably) or a Radeon X700 XT or I could get a new motherboard and then get the athlon 3200 64 instead of the xp. Another nice part about the athlon 64 is that I can get 1024 cache memory instead of the 512 on the athlon xp.
With the dell I could get a new motherboard and sell the current one on ebay then basically do the same things im doing to the athlon except with a p4 2.8. The only problem with this is the memory in it only runs at 333 mhz because it is 533 fsb.
Any suggestions would help also looking for some suggestions on the video card but I did not want to spend more then 200$ on the video card. Also if someone can tell me if the dell dimension 3000 has a pci express architecture it would help. (im not at home so i cant check). I really like the radeon x700 XT because it uses the GDDR3 memory and is PCI EXpress which as I read is faster then 8x agp but the downside to this is I will definatly need a new motherboard.