I am going to buy new motherboard, processor, graphics gard and more memory, but i haven't enough money for all of them! Which I should buy first? The compatibility is problem. If I buy now e.g. new motherboard and my old processor doesn't fit it. Btw. what kind of memory does motherboards use nowadays? And are the all (modern) graphic gards compatible with all modern motherboards?
Edit: And what effects more to watching divx movies, new processor or new graphic card? (I have 1Ghz and GeForce II)
ShadowCaster ... it seems there a lot of users not knowing a thing posting here ... and few knowing something.
The Leadtek A360TD is based on the new Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 chip. Its a faster replacement of the disappointing FX 5600 card that was clearly slower than the Radeon 9600 PRO. The new GeForce FX 5700 brings Nvidia on an equal level with ATIs Radeon 9600 PRO/XT. Which one is better is not that easy to tell. One card will lead a bit in one test, the other in another. It is a fact though that the Radeon card generally leads in more test, especially in DX9 tests. Radeon cards seem to perform better with DX9, antialiasing and anisotrophic filtering than GeForce FX cards do. While nvidias driver release 5x.xx seems to have improved things I still feel that at present time a Radeon card is the best buy. And Im even an old Nvidia fan way back with TNT, TNT2, Geforce 2 PRO, Geforce 4 TI4200 cards in the past.
The Leadtek may have 256 mb ram ... but forget that. No game today can use 256 mb ram. Even though you have it, it will not be used. By the time 256 mb ram is really necessary you most likely want a new graphics card anyways.
Oh, and a really good and serious english based website to find about hardware is: www.tomshardware.com .
These guys test beta hardware as well as the retail stuff and they know what they do. They are the ones who made AMD change their thermal diodes in the Athlon XP, as they showed what happened when the cooler was removed ... the cpu simply burned to death ... 300 degrees celcius ... auch!
They also dicovered that MSI had implemented a smart (and well hidden) FSB overclocking facility in its recent motherboards giving them higher scores in tests. And lots more. They also do frequent buyers articles with recommandations to what to buy ... in case you need a computer and dont know what to buy ...
Indeed. You can easily make drivers that run a game real slow no matter how fast the card is. Also back when the first Radeon cards appeared (7xxx and 8xxx series) ATI had a lot of driver problems. Many (at that time new) games had severe grapchical distortion.
Fenner[Crazy_Productions]: "Ahh crap my Radeon 9600XT card keeps corrupting the graphics in 3d games. anyboby know why this is?"
It could be a lot of things. First of all, is it all games? What games are you playing? Do you use the latest driver from ATI?
If its all games its most likely a problem with drivers. Make sure you use the latest. Make sure you have the latest bios for your motherboard. Check for drivers to your motherboard.
-Pyry-: "a-lot-of-words"
Simply wait a while until you have more money. Then buy at least a motherboard, cpu and ram at once so that they match in speed. The graphics card could wait a bit. A GeForce 2 is not all outdated yet.
All new graphics cards will run with any new computer.
Cpu power is most important when watching divx/xvid/mpeg/etc movies.
A 256 meg card will only perform better in games which make use of it. Most games today don't need 256 megs, and won't see a performance increase. New and future games will see an increase from a 256 meg card.
99 percent chance that the above post is 100 percent correct.
HOSJ, The only trouble with a GeForce FX 5200 is, if you give it a DX9 game to play it will run it around 5-20 fps, which is to say the least, unplayable.
Bear in mind. If a game really needs 256 mb on your graphics card to run, it most likely also requires something faster than a Radeon 9600/GeForce FX 5700 chip. I would NOT EVER buy a graphics card with 256 mb unless its at least a Radeon 9800/GeForce FX 5950.
Thanks guys ^__^ I got the GeForce for $300 even after some searching. I can now play POP: SOT (which I did all this afternoon for about 10 hours straight, because it is the best game ever ).
BTW I generally found that while Radions are faster, they are less reliable than GeForces. I guess it depends on which you think is better in the long run. As for me, I chose reliability.
Mike
"Now I guess we're... 'Path-E-Tech Management'" -Dilbert
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