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Time to upgrade my PC? Need help deciding what to buy, etc

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mbsurfer:
My PC's so bad, that when I just try to open the Bioshock Demo the game just crashes. :D

Loafie, Hero of Dreams:
I'm in the same boat as you, with a 6600GT and a 2.2 ghz Athlon 64. unfortunately the 939 socket is going to way of the dodo, but it is making it cheaper to pick up multi core cpus for it

DaDude:
Apparantly, I've been screwed then. I don't need/want the full PC upgrade, as my PC plays most my games just fine. Unfortunatly, to get the one thing I need updated (the video card), I need to upgrade pretty much everything as stated. Many people have reccommended the ATI x1950. How old is that card anyway? Unfortunatly, it doesn't seem to support Direct X 10.0, I believe. So it looks like I'll just follow my original plan... damn, a year without Bioshock? That sucks. Oh well.

Oh yes, for sound, I like good quality as I'm a pretty big music wise guy.

Also, on a side note, I think I can get another GB of RAM, shouldn't be too hard... well, actually, when I looked for it half a year ago, I couldn't find anyway. Oh well.

FlyBMXer4130:
Well, it really all depends on exactly what you want... example: for me, I have a Pentium 4 3.0ghz CPU, ATi x700 256mb, and 2GB of RAM (and 7.1 optical surround).  Every game I play (GR:AW 2 probably being the most stressful) plays perfectly on high settings, and that's a $30 video card.

Now what I intend on doing is waiting about another 6 months and hope to get a decent DX10 card for around $250, then after that I'll have to give up and go dual-core (or quad core perhaps :-p)...

So basically, it's up to you if you want to spend the money on your system and most likely be outdated for new games in about 6 months, or just suck it up and wait.  Otherwise, maybe just pick up a new video card without spending too much.  Your RAM and CPU seem fine...

olileauk:
The problem is that major technical upgrades occured 2 years or so ago with DDR2 and PCIe and new CPU sockets for AMD and Intel. Unfortunately, you missed all of that and have old-tech. This leaves you with 2 options. Do what I did and buy a motherboard supporting AGP and PCIe as well as DDR and DDR2, along with a new processor, then upgrade the RAM and Graphics card later (I've just upgraded my RAM having had my Core 2 Duo for nearly a year, and the graphics card will come with a new motherboard because this one runs the PCIe slot at 4x not 16x :( )

Or, save up and buy a whole new machine. This of course involves saving up uberloads, and bearing in mind the existing DX10 cards (in other words, the nVidia 8 seris and the ATi x2000 series) don't perform as well as they should in DX10, that also involves a wait for the new DX10 cards if you plan on playing DX10 games. Of course many, many games will still be DX9 enabled, because else DX10 games would be limited to those who own Windows Vista.

Regardless, you need to have a look at your options and weigh up the better choice for you. Mine was a slow upgrade, because my PC was pretty decent to start with.

Just bear in mind you have what is now considered an old-tech PC, and prices for upgrades are only going to go up because DDR is not going to be made for much longer - DDR3 is already out - and AGP is on the last ever card unless ATi or nVidia surprise us. Also, just so you know, you won't be able to get a better processor for that CPU socket anymore, at least not for cheap, because they aren't being made.

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