What's better in your opinion ?

[3dfx]

I have a little cash and I was wondering what would be best upgrade looking at my specs ?? memory or cpu ?

[CHHAS]

What exactly are you looking to improve ? That looks like a mighty fine rig to me.

[Gurm]

RAM. Seriously.

My machine went from "at times irritating" to "smooth as silk" (well as smooth as a single-chip machine can be) with the simple addition of an extra 256MB (bringing it to 768MB total).

- Gurm

[dbdg]

Yeah I'd go for Ram, went from 512 to 1024, I would never install less in a rig now.

[3dfx]

Thanks for the advice guys

[The PIT]

Why not do both???

[3dfx]

Now there's an idea

[The PIT]

£42.00 for an Xp 2000+ £42.00 quid for 256mb of Crucial ddr.

[bsdgeek]

3dfx how many RAM modules are you using now? Getting another would probably be a step back if you are using 2 now, as that would kill your dual channel nForce setup.

[3dfx]

I'm only using one, do you think I would get a big boost going from say my 1600 to a 2000 or 2200 ? I know it's a pretty stupid question Is it worth putting up the extra for the 2200?

[The PIT]

Well it's case of dimmishing returns. Unless you're doing some big number crunching/photo editing I doubt you'll notice much differance after a couple of days.

Bloat like Ut2003 may see a differance.

[3dfx]

Well I have spent a few moment trying to think what I really need, and I realised that I had completely forgot about something. A hard-drive would be nice tbh, I used to have a 40 and a 20 but the 40 recently fried and it was our of warranty.

So I think that getting a nice big 40 - 60 gig HD would be nice. At the moment the biggest quarrel I have with my computer is the laoding in games like unreal 2 which are really bad. memory is next on my list and then finally a nice new cpu, as I think that the 1600 can hold a little longer

I'm actually thinking of waiting for the athlon 64's could be a long wait though

[UtwigMU]

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My RIG!
AMD 1600 XP

I'd get Athlon 2000 to 2500+, 1600+ is IMO not letting R9700 to it's full potential.

Abit Nforce NV7-133R

Board - IMO socket A = end of line so it's not worth to upgrade. You could resell and get nF2.

512 Crucial DDR memory

RAM - depends if you're going over commit charges. Gurm is an XP fan so I understand his need for 768MB.

Matrox Parhelia 128 mb(Super! card)
Saphire Radeon 9700(using the
omega's based on Cat 3.1's)

Videocards - OK

Sound Blaster Live 5.1
PLEXTOR 24X writer
Sony 16x DVD drive

OK, you might consider DVD burner, if you intend to backup a lot of stuff that require either DVD format or big size.

Customised Coolercase Extreme XS case(NEON Light )

Case, it's aestetics, acoustics and space, you decide.

Cable Modem
21inch!! EIZO (Best purchase I ever made)

Razer Boomslang 2000 dpi(best gaming mouse)
and loads more ....

Logitech cordless desktop MX.

HDD, get one of WD JBs. Installed one of this for a friend in PII333. The thingie pwns, it's a whole new rig (also upped RAM to 256MB and installed 2k instead of 98).

[3dfx]

Thanks for your advice UtwigMU This has really cleared thing's up for me

[3dfx]

Western Digital Caviar 40GB Special Edition 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-004-WD) for Price: £46.00 (£54.05 Including VAT at 17.5%)

and

hopefully a 2400 XP brand new on Ebay for £50

there is a guy on ebay selling IBM 120Gb 180GXP 7200 2Mb Hard Drive-New-NR for like £70