New harware, and questions !

[Rimfaxe]

Hi all!

Long time no post, uh!

I am buying some new hardware. *grin*

So, my questions are:
What do you think about it?
What do you think my fps will be at Counter Strike? I have had problems with 800x600... (With amd k6-3@450MHz) Do you think that I am able to go up to 1024*768 and play at 30 fps at worst?
What OS is best do you think? XP, 2000 or ME? Some people says 98SE is best but...
Sure, I can wait but it is hard... I want to tell someone about my system too
Later when I get online I will tell u my score.

New hardware is:
Asus A7V266-E
2*256MB DDR OCZ Cas2 PC2100 (Micron)
AMD AthlonXP 1800+ (Palomino)
Zalman CNP5001 CU
SB Audigy player bulk
Antec SX635 (350W)

And from my old one, this will be in my new computer:
Matrox G400MAX
MAGXJ810 (19")
UltrapleX 40MAX
Plexiwriter 4-12
Intellimouse Explorer USB
Netgear311
10MBit LAN to internet

About everything... I think this computer will rock! But, Matrox, will u please get me a new gaming card! It is the only thing left for me to upgrade now.

Bye now, frag u later.

[RichL]

Your old PC sounds similar in spec to my old PC which I recently upgraded from a K6III/475 with 160mb to a Duron 1ghz with 256mb.

My FPS under Half-Life TFC is 50-60fps at 800x600 in 16bit colour on my new system (before I swapped my 20gb Hdd for a 60gb RAID system)

According to a lot of people around here, and from my experience too, G400s benefit from higher clock speeds up to about 800mhz, then gains are minimal from 800 upwards. I think someone said that over 1200 there just isnt any FPS gain.

You might have more success by overclocking your FSB and making the AGP bus run faster - G400s will apparently work okay with AGP bus speeds upto 89mhz!

[Rimfaxe]

Hmm, Ok! Thanks for the fast reply.

But can U overclock the G400MAX and turn up the FSB?
How much can U overclock a G400MAX? Will it help bring up my fps any?

[RichL]

Depending on exactly what Motherboard you have depends on how much you can do.
My motherboard gets its AGP and PCI speeds from a fraction of the FSB speed - usually 1/3 for PCI and 2/3 for AGP for a 100mb FSB - so when I pushed the FBS from 100 to 112, my PCI bus speed increased to 37 and AGP to 75mhz.
Increasing my FSB also pushed my ram speed from 133 to 149

I cant quite tell you how much an increase this will give your FPS in Half-Life, as I quit playing it after the last patch screwed everything up except the cheaters!

[Greebe]

Most Max's can only handle ~10% OC