[Ulundel]

All right, here's the deal.
My computer's getting old, no, I mean, really old. Only 64megs of ram and some stupid 8megs video card.  yeah, I know
Also, I need a CD burner. So, what should I buy first: more ram, a nice geforce or CD burner.

[KillMeNow]

hmmmmmmmm a nice shiny geforce will only do you of good if you got a nice shiney newish processor to go with it - save up and buy a whole new computer  nif its gettign old

i recomend the athlon range over the p4 far more bang for your buck

[Stunaep]

Well, if you don't have the bucks to get a new one, I'd suggest more RAM. A CD burner... well, you can always call me and a new video card won't do you any good without a new processor.

[Ulundel]

Originally posted by Stunaep
and a new video card won't do you any good without a new processor.

Like...why?

[Redfang]

What's your processor speed? Also, CD burner doesn't add speed (:doh: , I guess you know it) so if you want speed, you should buy something else first.
 
My computer is crap too, but I hope I'm going to get new one pretty soon.
 
Edit:

Originally posted by Ten of Twelve
Like...why?

 
I know you didn't quote me, but like I should care.

Anyway, if you have good a video card but a slow processor and/or not enough ram, the processor/ram/whatever will be bottleneck, and the video card will not help you much.

[Ulundel]

600 Mhz (actually 601 but who cares)
My first one had 12 Mhz

[KillMeNow]

well at 600 you might benefit from a geforce 2 but i doubt you notice much difference if you got the 3 or 4  on the upside the 2 is quite abit cheaper and that should leave you with enough to pick up some ram too which will help even just another 64mb would probally make quite a differnce

[Ulundel]

Thanks.
*runs*

[Bobboau]

I got a 450mhz p3
and an 8mb card
got the 1337 syS73|V|
 oh ya

[Ulundel]

Originally posted by Bobboau
I got a 450mhz p3
and an 8mb card
got the 1337 syS73|V|
 oh ya

I'm feeling better right now. At least I'm not the only one here...

[Redfang]

Originally posted by Bobboau
I got a 450mhz p3
and an 8mb card
got the 1337 syS73|V|
 oh ya

• 466MHz Celeron
  
• Integrated video card, 8MB
• 160MB Ram

:headz:

[Stunaep]

stupid ATI 4 mb. video card....
would be the right comment here.

Luckily, I'll get a new comp. by the end of the summer (actually I could get one tomorrow, but I don't see the point, since I do not use it in June-july-august. An 4 months make a huge difference)

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Originally posted by Ten of Twelve
600 Mhz (actually 601 but who cares)
My first one had 12 Mhz

I have a 600Mhz too, runs everything i have perfectly

okay: got 400Mb of RAM in there (128+256 but Pc can't do it's math and says 391 )

geforce2 GTS

and two large and fast harddrives

[an0n]

The first thing you should do is shell out for a nice new motherboard. Something in the £160 range with lots of slot and dual processot support, then plug all your old crap into it and gradually add things like a GC and RAM when you got the spare cash. The motherboard should always be the first candidate for upgrading.

[Ulundel]

I'll buy some ram and a new video card so I could play Morrowind, return to castle wolfenstein and any other.

New computer comes later.

[Redfang]

Originally posted by an0n
dual processot support

 
Um, why that? That's only useful for renderers (well, maybe some other things benefit from dual processors, too) who need very fast computers, and it might even give problems, or decrease performance in some things.
 
Edit: But I agree, a good motherboard is important. But if you don't have to upgrade it for new processor, you shouldn't. And changing to DDR-ram from SDR-ram isn't very good reason to upgrade motherboard, either. Of course if you have the money...

[Ulundel]

Originally posted by Redfang

 
Um, why that? That's only useful for renderers

[Redfang]

Originally posted by Ten of Twelve

 
I know you render, but dual processor doesn't even double performance, and it's not going to be cheap. I forgot to say that actually when computer is used for only rendering, and/or it's doing much rendering, only then should you have dual-processor system (I hope you can understand that, it was badly written).
 
It's expensive, but of course it's up to you to decide do you want dual-processor system (but remember, it doesn't help gaming performance, might even decrease that, and cause problems).
 
Edit: Also dual-processor system would be good for them who just have the money and want more performance for rendering.

[wEvil]

Depends if you're running POS default MAX or lightwave renderers or some good software like Mental Ray or PRman.

the second processor gave me a 30% speed improvement with the MAX renderer (YIPES!).

it gave me 100% on mental ray.

Duals aren't worth it if you dont EXCESSIVELY render animations.  For stills a single will still do you fine, more or less.

As for graphics cards...geforces are fine......provided you like graphical glitches all over the shop.

But then again decent pro 3D cards are way expensive (mine was £400)

If i were you i'd get a new mobo and processor first with memory.  make it DDR and make sure the mobo sports the best chipset around (KT266a or Nforce).  DO NOT get a cheapo motherboard (PCchips...bleurgh), go for a good solid brand name like Asus, Abit or Tyan etc. (sorry if i left anyones' favourite out)

Upgrade the graphics card later...this christmas a few manufacturers are releasing things that most people would kill for (i dont mean Nvidia or ATI, either, since all their designs are just higher clocked or DDRed versions of the same fricking chip)

[KillMeNow]

while i agree a good motherboard is a start - its not always the best idea to do it like you suggest - motherboard dont support all processors so if hes got a p3 at the moment perhaps in the up[grade he want s to switch to athlon etc - also dual processor support is only really needed if you planning on doing some serious rendering so if you just want to play games mostly then why shell out the extra fora  dual board espcially is finacaes dictate you can only afford one chip for the moment when the non dual chips are running at faster speeds

on the other hand if you wanted to do animations and some serious renders then dual is brilliant for that hehe =) i can vouch for this since i have one