Originally posted by SVTdriver762:
First of all, if you're going to upgrade you might want to think about getting something a little better than an AMD 2400+. That's not much of a step up from the 1700+. And if you had a decent motherboard, which I'm sure you don't, you'd be able to overclock your 1700+ close to 2400+ speeds. Aside from that, if you're hoping to play DooM3 at anywhere near an acceptable frame rate you better return that POS 2400+, and save for a couple more months. I don't know if you've been paying attention or not, but the technology DooM3 is running CG-style state of the art graphics. There aren't any video cards on the market for $150 worth purchasing. ESPECIALLY if you want to run DooM3.

I have a P4 3.5GHz with 1GB of PC4000 RAM and an ATI 9800XT with the 875P chipset, and I still don't manage great framerates in DooM3.

Since you're obviously too "busy" to do any research on your own, lemme give you MAP OUT a system for you that would run DooM3 nicely.

P4 3GHz+ CPU, Motherboard with 875p chipset, 1-1.5GB or RAM, and an NVidia 6800GT/ATI Radeon X800PRO.

And a note to the technological advisor on the board who said "It's not worth buying a 9800 because you can just buy a 9800 PRO for a little more and the performance increase is worth the extra money."

The only difference between a 9800 and a 9800PRO are the core/memory speeds, which, GUESS WHAT? You can simply change with a BIOS flash.

There are some differences between certain 9800's. Some are 128MB, some are 256MB. You have to pay attention.

Good luck.
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Disclaimer: I let my friend post this.



haha, your friend is so geeky, yet not as geeky as I used to be, in fact, the computer i'm upgrading is near 2 years old and watercooled, back when watercooling was 1337 at the lan parties, back before you could buy a pre-modded case, back when a neon light was like $60.

That blue around the front intake fans are just the tops of plastic bowls
You can even see the Compaq I modded for a friend to the right.



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