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Old 07-26-2005, 07:21 PM
John@Smith.com
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Default Re: Advice on upgrade (cpu/motherboard/gcard)

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:38:43 GMT, "Schrodinger" <no@way.com> wrote:

>
>Thanks to both Kony and yourself for your in depth advice!
>
>Having looked at the options bearing in mind your advice I decided to
>upgrade just my video card altogether, it looked like my only other
>realistic alternative was to upgrade MB, CPU, RAM and Gcard all at once -
>even taking sale of old ones into account that was just too much for now!
>
>I should still get maybe £60 for the old one and the new cost £130 incl
>delivery. It's the Gigabyte silent pipe AGP, which seems to be the fastest
>of the bunch and should give the gaming boost I'm after.
>
>Thanks again.


OK but I wanted to repeat there are 939 AMD 64 boards with AGP but
youll still should buy 3200 mem for it.

If you upgrade your graphics card it will be AGP so youll still be
stuck with AGP later on when you upgrade the MB unless you sell the
video card.



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