Well let me first say I recently tried to stay with my 478 socket processor and upgraded the AGP to a 7800GS card.. Games did not run very well at all I was EXTREMELY disappointed.
I'm ordering an 805 pentium D/Abit dual PCI-E mobo and will OC the processor just a little, not to much though keep it nice and stable and cool.
I'm also adding 2gb's of Corsairs DDR2-800 ram
Now for my main question:
I want to compliment the above setup with a new PCI-E video card for under $350 total, is there one asingle card I should consider for that price over all others? OR is there a cheaper card I could buy two of and pair for the price and have better results than all others for the price?
I currently play games like: CS:S/HL2/BF2/Quake4/COD2. I'd also like to be able to run the newer games that are coming out soon.. Maybe that wont be possible with my setup/budget? Let me know what you guys think, lord knows I haven't a clue.
Hopefully that makes some sense!!
I'm ordering an 805 pentium D/Abit dual PCI-E mobo and will OC the processor just a little, not to much though keep it nice and stable and cool.
I'm also adding 2gb's of Corsairs DDR2-800 ram
Now for my main question:
I want to compliment the above setup with a new PCI-E video card for under $350 total, is there one asingle card I should consider for that price over all others? OR is there a cheaper card I could buy two of and pair for the price and have better results than all others for the price?
I currently play games like: CS:S/HL2/BF2/Quake4/COD2. I'd also like to be able to run the newer games that are coming out soon.. Maybe that wont be possible with my setup/budget? Let me know what you guys think, lord knows I haven't a clue.
Hopefully that makes some sense!!