Hey guys, I'm upgrading my computer in a few weeks. MOHAA runs slow as a butter knife cutting through a frozen block of butter. What would be your recommendations of a good system upgrade for under $600? Im so far lookin at an Asus motherboard w/ AMD Athlon support (1.4Ghz), 512 Ram, 120 GB HD, and a GeForce 3 TI. Right now, my average MOHAA FPS is between 5 and 10 fps. So can a few of you recommend what would be a great system configuration? Thanks guys.

In my opinion, i'd say hold off on that 120 Gig HD, that'd put you out about 250.... If you're gonna get a new proccesor, check out the Athlon XP's... Those things gimme a hardon, for about $350, you can get a fast as hell AMD XP 2000+ (1.67 Ghz), spend on some nice RAM that can handle a lil overclocking, graphics card you might have to do some homework on, but that lil setup will get you some nice FPS's.... damn i wish i had money to blow

hahaha thanks man.

I recomend a G-Force 3 V8200 T5
With my P-4,512mb of DDR Ram and Gf3
I've had liquid-smooth framerates on Omaha...
and I mean on the beach...

I built a cpu for under $400, and it runs MOHAA beautifully. Its got a Shuttle AI61 Slot A Motherboard w/ AMD Athlon 900 CPU, 256MB of ram, 40GB Hard-Drive, and a TNT2 video card with 32MB of ram. That meats all of the recomended requirements of the game. FPS are around 50 to 70 at 800x600.

make sure you buy an ATI card http://www.alliedassault.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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I'd say a ATI 8500 would be the way to go. Latest tech, but the drivers may be a little flaky (the only draw back which ATI is addressing).

Go with AMD as well, screw Intel and their high prices.

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I say go with the highest Athlon XP, Abit RK7A and add the most DDR you can afford. Then get a Geforce 3 or Radeon (I got a GF3 Ti200) while remaining in your budget.

This should keep you goin' for a while.

Take a look at the Elitegroup ECS K7S5A motherboard. It's only $99 Cdn ($0.50 American?), which frees up a fair bit of extra coin to jump a step higher up the MHz ramp. Through the extra hundred into a 1.6 GHz Palomino or higher if the price is right. The board is stable, and runs just slightly slower than the MSI KT266A which is at least $130 more expensive. Comes with onboard LAN, which saves on a PCI slot. The onboard video and soundcard suck though, but who the hell uses onboard vid and sound unless they've got an N-Force anyway!!!

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Is onboard LAN reliable?

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