Upgrade questions with an Athlon 2400 and the X800

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With the arrival of the new X800 cards, the upgrade question begs to
be asked. I'm running an Athlon 2400XP on 1 GB of PC2700 DDR-RAM. I'm
currently running a Geforce Ti4200 128MB card. Obviously, it's time
for this card to go..

Games such as Far Cry and Battlefield Vietnam are seriously
unplayable. As you can imagine. I have considered purchasing a $1200
motherboard/cpu/ upgrade to go along with the X800 card, but taking
that deep of a financial plunge right now seems a bit unrealistic.
With that question out of the way for a moment, could I just put in
this X800 Pro/Platinum card and expect a considerable performance
increase in FPS for these power hungry games? Or is the Athlon 2400
just too much of a bottleneck to even consider adding the high end
cards or not without doing a complete upgrade? I thank you for any
help you guys can offer me on this situation. I'm really hoping that I
don't have to upgrade the CPU just yet, even though I probably should.

 

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Hi
How are you running your 2400
At 133 X 15 or 166 X 12?
most 2400s will hit 2.3-2.5 Ghz

Smiffy

 

[Maniac]

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John Smith <zilch@zilch.com> wrote:

> most 2400s will hit 2.3-2.5 Ghz

Of course, sure...

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maniac(at)chello.pl

 

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> most 2400s will hit 2.3-2.5 Ghz

Will most likely not.
Not everybody are using dryice as a cooler.