Upgrade advice

[airwot4]

Battlefield is painfully slow, I've reformatted my computer to get it better but it still feels like I'm playing a slide show.

I don't think my spec is too bad, what's the weakest link? Should I just go for a new system? I've not got much of a budget for a big upgrade.

2.80 Ghz P4
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
1Gb RAM
(Board: TriGem Computer NETHERLANDS Advent Series Ver1.0
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz)

[Andre2142]

Re: Upgrade advice

you defenetly need an Upgrade of CPU and Video card :|:

[venny]

Re: Upgrade advice

i would say, get 1gb ram extra. and get a 7900gt gfx card. solves alotta problems.

[LT_SE7EN11]

Re: Upgrade advice

Your CPU is fine. Take venny's advice and grab at least 1 more GB RAM and upgrade that video card to at least nVidia 7800. (btw: check out www.tigerdirect.com for some pretty good deals on hardware)

You're looking at about $350 max.

[thelast500]

Re: Upgrade advice

ok keep ecerything exept the gfx card. I have a 6800gt and it plays really well wit one gig of ram. so get anything above this card.

[Timewarp]

Re: Upgrade advice

I aggree ram is the key... My specs are not much better yet BF2 runs fine for me...

P4 2.55 Ghz
2.5 gb ram
Radeon 9800 Pro

[John Edmo]

Re: Upgrade advice

Yep. More Ram and a GForce 7900 or 7950. I'm using a 6800GT with 2GB ram and believe it or not a Celeron 2.6GB cpu with the 478 chipset. I run everything on high with 4x anti-aliasing and am only just having lag problems since the new patch. My next card will be a 7950.

[SFR-MAINE]

Re: Upgrade advice

Yep. More Ram and a GForce 7900 or 7950. I'm using a 6800GT with 2GB ram and believe it or not a Celeron 2.6GB cpu with the 478 chipset. I run everything on high with 4x anti-aliasing and am only just having lag problems since the new patch. My next card will be a 7950.

Except he is on AGP so the best AGP card he could get would be the 7800GS, or the 7600GS.

[-(PK)-DarkIllusion]

Re: Upgrade advice

A better graphics card would benefit him here.... The cpu and ram are FINE, he doesn't mention he wants to play @ ultra high settings,etc...
Anything above 6600GT would b fine..

this looks nice...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150157

[Merlin]

Re: Upgrade advice

Battlefield is painfully slow, I've reformatted my computer to get it better but it still feels like I'm playing a slide show.

I don't think my spec is too bad, what's the weakest link? Should I just go for a new system? I've not got much of a budget for a big upgrade.

2.80 Ghz P4
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
1Gb RAM
(Board: TriGem Computer NETHERLANDS Advent Series Ver1.0
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz)

Is that an AGP mobo & graphics card? If it is then you would be limited to a 7900GS as the GTX and GT are not available in AGP.

[SFR-MAINE]

Re: Upgrade advice

Is that an AGP mobo & graphics card? If it is then you would be limited to a 7900GS as the GTX and GT are not available in AGP.

There is no 7900GS, only 7800GS.

[megawhompertoo]

Re: Upgrade advice

Best bet for AGP (IMHO) is to buy x800xt/x850xt or a 6600gt off Ebay and save your pennies for a new system. The 7800gs is a great card, but isn't worth ~$300 going into an AGP system. You could get a new MOBO + 64-bit fast, quiet, cool CPU + mid/high end PCI-E gpu for $100 more than the 7800gs alone.

Just curious, but which P4 is that 2.8 of yours? Northwood or Prescott? I have a 3.0E Prescott that used to sound like a typhoon under load.