Recent content by wilsonstark35

Thanks very much for all your answers. I'm going with the Sapphire 4350 suggestions, especially since there's a fanless option, but I'm giving the best answer to nitrous simply because that chart is such an awesome resource, and I didn't manage to find it despite all kinds of google effort :)

I'm building a new PC, which is going quite well and not actually why I'm asking. My question is actually about how to make my old PC a bit more environmentally friendly as a home server. It was a gaming system, so it doesn't have any on-board graphics options (and my current GPU is going into...

Thanks all, appreciate the feedback. Will go hit the low-end forums and system builder forums for more info on doing my board/CPU/RAM upgrade as affordably as possible.

Argh, very sorry. I updated the poll and now folks votes are gone. For the record, it was 6 votes on processor, 2 for memory (with 2 options possible). So basically all respondents so far are saying "upgrade your CPU".

Sorry, my bad. The memory is PC2700 (333MHz) DDR. Should have been more specific :) Also added a vote slot for motherboard, specs of which can be found here: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=939SLI32-eSATA2&s=Archives I haven't asked about hard disks because a: doubt it is...

Okay, I'm sure you guys get a ton of annoying "what's my bottleneck questions, so if I make it simple as a poll maybe I'll get decent responses. If you feel I'm wasting your time, my apologies. I'm not really sure what the problem is, I have been assuming processor. For those saying "That's...