amd system upgrade

Dilbert-FirestormDilbert-Firestorm Nuclear Wasteland, Gretna, LA New
edited March 2005 in Hardware
hey all..

I'm looking to upgrade my pentium 3 1ghz system to and an AMD system.

would like suggestions on AMD CPU, motherboard and Video. will be getting Kingston ram with it.

Comments

  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited March 2005
    Basically figure out how much you want to spend and spend it. AMD pricing is pretty linear so the more you spend the better you are going to get as far as the CPU's go. For mother boards I'd recomend something with the NForce3 chipset on it because they have great audio and built in LAN. Video cards are a personal prefrence for me I prefer Nvidia over ATI not because they are neccessarily better performance wise but they just seem to be more stable when it comes to drivers.

    As for what card specifically again price is the limit as they scale up fairly linearly I'd recomend something though with at least 128 ram or 256 if you can swing it. For specificd make/models other people on here are more suited then I since I'm not pushing my home rig for a game machine.

    Though for my luck at home and at work I've had best success with Asus products all the way around. MSI would be my next choice though l8ly (not me) others have been having issues with the MSI mobo's.

    One other issue is SATA vs IDE most boards now come with both so you are fine, but if you are planning on upgrading from an older machine and bringing your drives with you just make sure whatever new board you are getting is compatible. Also if you are going with an NForce chipset you need to match your ram for the best response. So for example 2 256 sticks will work far better then 1 512.
  • aspire-comptechaspire-comptech New
    edited March 2005
    Amd budget system:

    amd athlon 64 3000+ $140
    512 mb ram $60
    Motherboard priced around $80-$90 dollars
    case with at least 3 fans $60
    graphics card 6600 leadtek from newegg $109
    Hard drives i think youll be using your old ones
    optical drives scavenge some old one from your p-3 system
    Total cost is about $460
  • Dilbert-FirestormDilbert-Firestorm Nuclear Wasteland, Gretna, LA New
    edited March 2005
    well, hows the AMD Athlon 64 3500 sound?
    prolly will get 1 gig of ram

    is the 6600 leadtek good for 3d animations? if not, what then?
  • aspire-comptechaspire-comptech New
    edited March 2005
    Dilbert Firestorm wrote:
    well, hows the AMD Athlon 64 3500 sound?
    prolly will get 1 gig of ram

    is the 6600 leadtek good for 3d animations? if not, what then?

    Hell ya thats a great processor esp. for gamin you can overclock it to hell and it'll still perform. 1 gig of ram is kinda overkill unless you want to spend the money. You dont need that much unless your planning on running a ton of apps at the same time
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited March 2005
    aspire.comptech wrote:
    Hell ya thats a great processor esp. for gamin you can overclock it to hell and it'll still perform. 1 gig of ram is kinda overkill unless you want to spend the money. You dont need that much unless your planning on running a ton of apps at the same time


    1gig isn't all the expensive now and if you are doing gaming or any graphic work it's a huge improvement.
  • SSR_06SSR_06 Iowa
    edited March 2005
    1 gig is almost standard for any newer games.
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