For about $550
 

A friend is looking to upgrade. Is this good enough if he really just plays Call of Duty?

ASUS K8N4-E DELUXE Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce4 ATX AMD Motherboard - $104.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131533


AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Newcastle 800MHz FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket 754 Processor - $193.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103483


ATI RADEON 9800PRO 128M Radeon 9800PRO 128MB 256-bit DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card - $136.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814102286


CREATIVE Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit - $29.00
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Buy a 6600

yeah radeon pro 9800 - 1.5 shaders
gt 6600 - 3.0

Sorry to get offtopic, but I have a question I've been meaning to ask.

I have a 6800 (not GT) in my new computer. How do they compare to other cards? It seems to run fine for me, and it's definately an upgrade from my old FX5200

[quote="Cool Fool":0fb51]yeah radeon pro 9800 - 1.5 shaders
gt 6600 - 3.0[/quote:0fb51]

I see no 3.0, so I am assuming you mean 2.0.

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well jin roh on the box it says 3.0? maybe im mistaken...but well get a newer card, not an ati radeon pro 9800...like a x700 or something

A 6600GT would be better, but as you asked - it WILL run COD pretty well. How much RAM would you put in it? I'd recommend a gig. This setup would also run bf2 (should you get it) on low/medium settings (as long as you have the gig ram)

I agree

That mobo sucks, if you want to go s754 (not sure why you would since s939 is the same price...) Get the [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136147:b949a]DFI Lanparty UT nF3[/url:b949a] It's the best s754 by far.


Video card, definitely get a 6600GT. It rapes everything in that price range.

If he plans on using that computer for a couple years why not go with a socket 939? 64 bit is only going to get more popular why not be thinking ahead?
and a 6600 GT is a wonderfull card, i have one myself and seems to stomp on any ATI card in its price range.

hell i could run on high if it was a gt6600

i got a 2.0 ghz amd, 1 gb ram, soundblaster 24 bit, gt6600...runs fine on high

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yeah wtf ati dosent even have anything close to competing with Nvidias high end cards

[quote="Simo Häyhä":77905]yeah wtf ati dosent even have anything close to competing with Nvidias high end cards[/quote:77905]

wtf... stupid: