Gundamflare
07-23-07, 06:54 PM
As it stands right now, my friend asked me for an upgrade, his following specs are:
1.5gb ram (2x 256 1x 1gb) DDR
AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (clocked at 2.15 ghz)
ASUSTeK A7V8X-X which seems to be locked into AMD Athlon XPs and Socket A processors
and a pretty solid GeForce6800XT video card.
I was thinking about the best way to upgrade this, getting the most performance without actually overhauling the whole machine.
Seeing as the board is locked to those specific processors, I don't think I can go to that much higher up on the processor ladder (does newegg even sell socket A athlon XPs??)
But a new board would definitely be DDR2 rather than DDR, so if I got a new board I'd have to get new RAM.
Is there any happy medium for me? IE get a new board but keep the ram, or keep the board and get the best Athlon XP AMD chip?
1.5gb ram (2x 256 1x 1gb) DDR
AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (clocked at 2.15 ghz)
ASUSTeK A7V8X-X which seems to be locked into AMD Athlon XPs and Socket A processors
and a pretty solid GeForce6800XT video card.
I was thinking about the best way to upgrade this, getting the most performance without actually overhauling the whole machine.
Seeing as the board is locked to those specific processors, I don't think I can go to that much higher up on the processor ladder (does newegg even sell socket A athlon XPs??)
But a new board would definitely be DDR2 rather than DDR, so if I got a new board I'd have to get new RAM.
Is there any happy medium for me? IE get a new board but keep the ram, or keep the board and get the best Athlon XP AMD chip?