[Rocket]

Hey fellas, I'm getting sick of 25.0 fps, so I'm thinking of plunking down a few bucks to upgrade. I'll list what I have, and what I'm thinking about going to.

Now:
Board: Epox 8KTA+
Chip: AMD Athlon 750
Vid: ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 32mb vid
Memory: 128mb PC133 ram

Future ideas:
Board: ECS K7S5A
Chip: AMD Athlon XP ~ 1800-2100
Vid: ATI RADEON 7000 64MB DDR or GeForce4 MX 440 64MB
Memory: 256 DDR ram

What do you think? Should I go to the extra effort of the new MB/chip combo? Should I just get a new video card and call it even? Should I just expand my current memory to 256 or 512? I want to keep my costs down as much as possible, but I don't want to sell myself short. All told, this upgrade would probably run me under $200, depending on the options I take.

[Mr_nStuff]

Well if your planning on using WinXP.. 256RAM will be annoyingly slow no matter what board/cpu you have..

[Rocket]

Going with Win2K, most likely, unless someone has a good suggestion about going to something like XP with 512mb of ram (or higher).

[makaveli1604]

i upgraded to this
athlon xp 1700+
and a gf4ti4200
+another 256 stick off p133 sdram
did the trick for me and i still have a shite motherboard sis sucks!!!!!
with com_maxfps 0 typed into the console on most maps my fps is between 100/250 biggrin:

[apache01]

Well I think I would upgrade my ram as much as possible, vid card looks good, but I suggest you get the latest drivers.
If you upgrade too 1 meg of ddr ram, and you still dont get a lot of improvement, you can put in new comp.
I bought 1meg of samsung ram fot less than $100.00 on one of the online auctions. Good Luck[/list]

[Bazooka_Joe]

Video card is where it's at man. Don't waste your money on an MX card. Go for at least a RADEON 7500 or a GeForce 4 Ti 4200.

[Scorpio]

Here is my opinion. Do the upgrade. If you just upgrade the card and don't see much of a performance increase then you would be disappointed. (CPU bottleneck) Also, if you can swing it, 512mb of ram.

Scorpio