Just Wondering

[bond0079]

Please give me you educated guess!!!

I have...

Intel 2.0 Ghz OCed @ 2.6 Ghz Socket 478 533MHz Pro 512 Cache NO HT
Asus P4800 SE Motherboard
1x 1gb Samsung DDR 400 MHz
1 X 512Mb Samsung DDR 400 Mhz
1 X 512mb Samsung DDR 400 Mhz
Asus N6600 AGP 8X 128 Meg Video 300Mhz Eng 550MHz Mem
Maxtor 60Gb IDE 7200 RPM 8 Meg Cache
SoundBlaster live 5.1 Sound
Enermax 550 PSU



Few Questions
will I notice a difference in game if I...

current from a 2.0 @ 2.6 533 Mhz 478 NO HT
Upgrade to a 3.0E 800 Mhz 478 with HT and same board

current IDE 60Gb 7200 RPM
upgrade to SATA 80Gb 150mbit's 8 Mb CacheDrive

Drive I would buy like ASAP and CPU maybe in a month or so although I am thinking I can get the same board with socket 775 processor will that help?

I dont want to spend money if i wont gain performance and stability I know my video is not that great.... I could get a 6800 if I sell the parts

Q # 2

What do you think my settings should be for the current system I have now
Currently I am running
1024X768
med
med
med
med
med
off
off
off
Low
view 100
sometimes choppy and rare stales at 15fps
FPS RANGE 32 60 in plane or chopper
AVG Ping 40 60

[John Edmo]

Re: Just Wondering

I've got the same board and cpu, and also 2GB ram. I've got a 6800GT . I'm running everything on high with 4x anti aliasing and max distance etc.
Looks great.

[megawhompertoo]

Re: Just Wondering

Few Questions
will I notice a difference in game if I...

current from a 2.0 @ 2.6 533 Mhz 478 NO HT
Upgrade to a 3.0E 800 Mhz 478 with HT and same board

current IDE 60Gb 7200 RPM
upgrade to SATA 80Gb 150mbit's 8 Mb CacheDrive

Drive I would buy like ASAP and CPU maybe in a month or so although I am thinking I can get the same board with socket 775 processor will that help?

I dont want to spend money if i wont gain performance and stability I know my video is not that great.... I could get a 6800 if I sell the parts

The 3.0E prescott might make bf2 run a little faster; I have one and I had an asus p4m-800mx before a dying psu smoked the mobo. It will definitely help out in more CPU-intensive games like RTS's, and those based on the Source engine (the physics of throwing things around taxes the processor).

A hd with a larger cache will decrease the loading/verifying client time. Hard to say how much, but just for kicks I had (at one time) installed bf2 to an old 7200rpm fujitsu 19gb w/512mb cache...and it would sometimes take half-a-round to get in the game.

it's difficult to justify dropping ~$170 (current prices on a 6800gt) on an lower-end agp gpu. For another $130, you could have a dual-core pentium D, a new mobo compatible with both ddr (your memory) and ddr2 AND will support Core 2 if you decide to upgrade, and a gpu that will play bf2 on medium/high. see post number 6 in this thread:

http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92220