uzziah
Headphoneus Supremus
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so, this system has been a great "investment". i've been able to do a couple minor upgrades, and unless i'm very much mistaken (and let me know if i am), it still can run most games today pretty well. my thinking is that i'll probably do one more upgrade on this system in a year or so: video card, and then i'll replace the whole thing.
here it is:
asrock dual-sata2 mobo s939 (considered a great overclocker, i have yet to try but will do so)
9600gt gpu
a64 4000 x2 dual core cpu
2gb basic DDR ram
standard 7200rpm 250gb hdd (will probably nab a bigger one eventually and add it in
excellent cpu cooling and good overall case cooling; recently dug out all the dust that had accumulated and jesus did that make a difference, this box is 5 years old or so, i originally had a basic gpu, and a single core cpu, and 1gb of ram; i upgraded those three only a year ago or less, and got great deals on the upgrades since at that point they were already off the bleeding edge
now, this machine isn't just for gaming, but that is the only thing i do to tax the system; will be doing a little audio and video editing, but nothing major
now, the question i wanted to ask is: i am going to do a windows reinstall real soon, should i put win7 on it? will it be faster or slower with that? i really don't want to hear about "future proofing", because first: it's a laughable idea with computers (yeah, we all got our money's worth with our 64-bits on our athlon cpus : ) ), and this computer is only going to be with me for another year or two, maybe three max if i stop to care about high end games. even now i'm not asking to run the high end stuff on max.
i'd like to be able to run new games on medium graphics, and games that are a few years old on high, or nearly high
since i wrote all this i guess i'll actually ask all the questions i wanted to:
1. should i install xp or win7? will be doing so VERY soon
2. am i correct that with gaming my GPU is still my weakest point? am i right that a gpu upgrad at some time would be the last worthwhile thing to do? getting a new cpu or ram for this is silly as it is a very old platform
3. adjunct: i am assuming that the fact that i have DDR ram, an older cpu architecture and mobo architecture is not THAT big a deal. Am i right about that? i'm assuming that even though my architecture is pretty old, that it still is nearly as fast as today's systems, yes?
thanks for the help. money is an issue. i'm all about the bang for buck, and i'm not doing any upgrades right now; i have been using my xbox360 for games, and this system (i'm afraid to admit) has mostly just been sitting unused. since i mostly play games alone i'm planning to sell off the ybox and all games and such and just use the PC (i also want a good driving wheel and flightstick.......if you could suggest i would appreciate.....and games to match). i already have the wired xbox360 controller that is the perfect gamepad, and of course coming from headfi i have kickass headphones and a zhaolu outboard dac/amp
ok.............i typed far too much, but i want to thank y'all in advance for helping a brotha out
here it is:
asrock dual-sata2 mobo s939 (considered a great overclocker, i have yet to try but will do so)
9600gt gpu
a64 4000 x2 dual core cpu
2gb basic DDR ram
standard 7200rpm 250gb hdd (will probably nab a bigger one eventually and add it in
excellent cpu cooling and good overall case cooling; recently dug out all the dust that had accumulated and jesus did that make a difference, this box is 5 years old or so, i originally had a basic gpu, and a single core cpu, and 1gb of ram; i upgraded those three only a year ago or less, and got great deals on the upgrades since at that point they were already off the bleeding edge
now, this machine isn't just for gaming, but that is the only thing i do to tax the system; will be doing a little audio and video editing, but nothing major
now, the question i wanted to ask is: i am going to do a windows reinstall real soon, should i put win7 on it? will it be faster or slower with that? i really don't want to hear about "future proofing", because first: it's a laughable idea with computers (yeah, we all got our money's worth with our 64-bits on our athlon cpus : ) ), and this computer is only going to be with me for another year or two, maybe three max if i stop to care about high end games. even now i'm not asking to run the high end stuff on max.
i'd like to be able to run new games on medium graphics, and games that are a few years old on high, or nearly high
since i wrote all this i guess i'll actually ask all the questions i wanted to:
1. should i install xp or win7? will be doing so VERY soon
2. am i correct that with gaming my GPU is still my weakest point? am i right that a gpu upgrad at some time would be the last worthwhile thing to do? getting a new cpu or ram for this is silly as it is a very old platform
3. adjunct: i am assuming that the fact that i have DDR ram, an older cpu architecture and mobo architecture is not THAT big a deal. Am i right about that? i'm assuming that even though my architecture is pretty old, that it still is nearly as fast as today's systems, yes?
thanks for the help. money is an issue. i'm all about the bang for buck, and i'm not doing any upgrades right now; i have been using my xbox360 for games, and this system (i'm afraid to admit) has mostly just been sitting unused. since i mostly play games alone i'm planning to sell off the ybox and all games and such and just use the PC (i also want a good driving wheel and flightstick.......if you could suggest i would appreciate.....and games to match). i already have the wired xbox360 controller that is the perfect gamepad, and of course coming from headfi i have kickass headphones and a zhaolu outboard dac/amp
ok.............i typed far too much, but i want to thank y'all in advance for helping a brotha out
