Originally posted by RT and his SE:
If your computer is 3 years old you probably won't notice any performance difference between 4x and 8x AGP. For the future you may want to think about a change. Rambus is expensive and dead, Intel was the biggest user and they don't use it anymore. So your money may go further if you gut your machine. I'm talking new motherboard, DDR memory and CPU. A 512MB Rambus stick will run you about $170? For about $30 more you can have a good board(8x AGP), 512MB of good DDR memory and a fast AMD CPU. Plus you'll be using technology that's still in use and fairly cheap to upgrade going forward. Yes your current drives and videocard will still work with this new stuff!



Thanks for the tip. My biggest problem is that I'm not too computer savy. I've added memory and switched vid cards but that's about the extent of my computer knowledge. I would love to build a whole new system from scratch but with my limited knowledge I think I might end up in over my head and that's why I was considering upgrades to this machine. How can I find out what other motherboard/cpu/powersupply would fit this case? Right now it's a pentium 4 1.3 ghz. I'm not sure what kind of motherboard and power supply it has now but I could dive into the system and find out. I also need a new hard drive because this one is running out of space "20 gb". I know I basically need all new components but I'm not sure I could complete this project and get it working correctly. The only components I would likely keep would be my new vid card and my dvd burner which is fairly new. Thanks for the advice, as you can see I'm a novice and could use it.

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