damn! nice website. u know anymore like those? they have the 7600 for $173 and it required a minimum of 350W power supply and of course everything else i have! and today i got 1 more GB of ram so i am at 2GB and finally! do i really need to upgrade to 3.2GHz? i tried finding a P4 3.2GHz but its not on any of the sites i know. so wat do u recommend?
Is your motherboard a LGA775 socket? If yes I would look at one of these two, Just make sure your board supports The new Duo Cores. http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=25297&vpn=BX80557E6550&manufacture=Intel or http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=25298&vpn=BX80557E6750&manufacture=Intel Either one will smoke a p3.6
Well if you're runnning a P4 below 3.0Ghz, chances are its a socket 478, which doesnt support duel cores, only P4s, and that all you can get. If you buy a new mobo, you can get a 775 duel core, or quad core. Btw, the one you found for $204 is a socket 775, which wont work. The highest you can get is a 3.2 I believe. I cant seem to find one right now, but this one should be fine: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116027
The best advice would be to get a new MOBO and either of the CPU's in my previous post. These 3 are good boards, and at a reasonable price. http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=24650&vpn=GA-P35-DS3R&manufacture=Gigabyte http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=25369&vpn=GA-P35-DS3L&manufacture=Gigabyte http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=19355&vpn=90-MBB4E5-G0UAYZ&manufacture=ASUS Hope this helps.
see the problem with gettin a new mobo and stuff is that its just like buying a new cpu. if u total it all up its gonna be about $500. y not just get a new comp for $300 and upgrade a couple of things and thas it! but thas if ur a hardcore gamer! i and just gonna play games here and there. not even everyday! i hope u get wat i am tryin to say. now i have 2 GB of ram and just need the card and processor. NCIX doesn't have a p4 processor but they do have the 7600. i wanted to buy them together to save money but i guess i can't. so wats do i do now!
Well, what you can do is just get the 7600gs for now, The processor will bottneck it some what, but it'll be better than what you have now. Or you can just live with the 9200 for now and just keep saving til you have enough for a new MOBO, processor and a pci-e card. The problem you have is that if you buy the agp card, your just buying old technogly. I would just save up til you have enough to do a proper upgrade.
ok u know wat. i'll stick with this for now. and prolly look for just a new dual core or quad core CPU that might be on sale on boxing day or somthin. and if i need to i'll upgrade it little bit and thas it. just final question. my current CPU has DDR2-400 RAM, do the new dual core/quad core CPUs support this type of ram?