Hi all, Just reading a few posts in the forum and I am interested in upgrading my Asus A7N8X-X mobo with socket A AMD Athlon 2083 Mhz CPU with on-board Nvidia Geforce FX5200 128mb and 1 gig RAM (combo of DDR-SDRAM PC3200 (200 MHz) - [DDR-400] and DDR-SDRAM PC2700 (166 MHz) - [DDR-333], which is what I could afford at the time. I got those specs off PC Wizard so I hope I quoted correctly?. I wanted to upgrade the mobo and cpu. I tried to run Oblivion - Elder Scrolls 3 and the frame rate was soooooo sloooooow and the mouse froze up. Can anyone suggest a good mobo (on board graphics) and cpu that would run Elder Scrolls 3 decently?. Most of my other applications are fine it is just games that suffer. On just another note, if I upgraded would I need to re-install Windows or would this boot off the hard drive I now have it installed on. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks all.
oblivion runs great on mine see specs below it runs ok on my sons he has a P4 3ghz 1 gig of ram and an fx5900xt graphics card i think the graphics is where people are having the main problems. Try a better graphics card first
Thanks but I was looking at upgrading the mobo and cpu and wanting to know if any mobo's have enough on-board graphics 'grunt'. Also if you want to quote prices could that be in AUS$ as I am from Australia. Thanks
If you want to be gaming with any new rig, you really need to avoid on board graphics. There is never going to be any board with graphics built in, that will give you a good gaming experience they are just not kitted out with descent gpu's. If you really can't afford to get a seperate mobo and gpu then you should wait, otherwise you are wasting what money you do have available. If you actually provide a top sum of money you can afford, then you'll no doubt get plenty of other options.
BigDk, Would I be best off just getting a graphics card like a GeForce 7600GT sonic?. Will my mobo and cpu supports this?. Thanks
The only version of the 7600GT sonic i can find is a PCI-e card, which won't fit onto that board as it is AGP only. Not sure exactly what the board you're using is, as I search at ASUS and the board shows up without any integrated graphics on it. http://uk.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=1&model=219&l1=3&l2=13&l3=58 You are always going to be limited by the CPU no matter what card you use, but something like a 6600GT would be a reasonable upgrade to that setup. Depending on what game you are playing and how much memory it requires from the gpu will affect the performance. You need to set the agp aperture to a least 32mb, probably best at about 64 mb with that card, best to try it set to both.
