On Jan 26, 7:43 am, "GT" <ContactGT_remo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Is it going to be possible to improve the performance of the following PCon
> a £100 (UK) budget. Performance improvement required for 3D gaming mainly
> and if possilbe, general windows use:
>
> Socket A Athlon 2500+ (undervolted to run cooler)
> Soltek SL75-DRV5 with 1GB + 0.5GB of DDR 333 memory.
> Radeon 8500 64MB AGP graphics.
> Samsung spinpoint 160GB EIDE drive.
>
> The processor is the fastest that the motherboard can handle
>
> The PC is completely silent:
> There is a Zalman silent flower cooler on the processor.
> There is a replacement, zalman cooler on the GPU.
> The case is modified (holes hacked in the back) with several undervolted
> fans which run silently.
>
> Any upgrade should not add too much noise.
>
> As I see it, the processor and graphics card are the slow points in the
> system, but to upgrade the processor means upgrading the motherboard, which
> probably means new style RAM and a PCI-E graphics card. This is not possible
> for the budget.
>
> New graphics cards such as a 7600GS or X1600 are available in AGP format,
> but is there any performance gain to be made for games, or would this
> processor significantly hold back a newer generation graphics card?

Don't spend money on it. The most you might do is overclock it, (out
of warranty by now anyway ;) )