WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM?
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Some random comments for you, Roland. I have had your graphics card and an Abit motherboard since about the start of the year.

I'm curious what kind of in game performance levels you are getting with what you have now. It seems like it should already be a pretty nice rig, but the CPU probably can't keep up. If the card came with Farcry, what kind of settings and FPS are you getting? Just curious.

6800OC attached to a 15" monitor sounds like a Yugo with nitros :rolleyes: I'm sure 15" monitor is plenty big enough for all practical purposes though. If you really want overkill, try to unlock the pixel pipelines using RivaTuner.

I have an Abit motherboard, but it is the AV8 (Athlon64 rather than Pentium 4). So far, so good. If you like to mess around with overclocking, you will probably like the microGuru, which can allow you to make a specific group of voltage/fan/FSB settings, save it, and then flop it on at any time without needing to reboot. You can even bind such a profile to specific programs, such that everytime you run "diablo.exe" you automatically get a more agressive overclocking to provide the necessary performance boost for such intensive software. (Advanced memory settings and some other things can only be changed in BIOS). The practical side of me, however, has never seen enough performance boost from overclocking to justify the added heat and potential stability problems. And if your current memory is PC2100, it may be even less practical to overclock.

The main problems I've heard about with Abit mobos in the past involved northbridge fans. I don't know if those issues apply to the current models or not. My model does not seem to have any fans at all, just the funky blue heatsinks, so problem solved.

There is at least a decent chance that your memory will be able to run in dual channel if you do go through with this motherboard/processor upgrade. As gnollguy said, there is really no such thing as "dual channel RAM". It is just a matched pair of DDR SDRAM. You already have that, just older and slower, so it might work in dual channel configuration with very conservative memory settings.

Since you already have the AGP 6800, and I'm betting you have a few things that demand a regular PCI slot, it is probably a good choice to avoid the PCI-Express motherboards for now.
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WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-04-2005, 02:02 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Caeles - 02-04-2005, 02:20 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Kevin - 02-04-2005, 04:26 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Drasca - 02-04-2005, 08:38 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Thecla - 02-04-2005, 08:42 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Drasca - 02-04-2005, 08:44 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-04-2005, 09:46 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Ruvanal - 02-04-2005, 10:50 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-04-2005, 10:56 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-04-2005, 01:53 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-04-2005, 02:38 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Malakar - 02-04-2005, 03:26 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Caeles - 02-04-2005, 09:50 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Boutros - 02-04-2005, 11:02 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Ruvanal - 02-04-2005, 11:37 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Nystul - 02-04-2005, 11:46 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Kevin - 02-04-2005, 11:54 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by mjdoom - 02-05-2005, 12:12 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Drasca - 02-05-2005, 12:28 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Yuen - 02-05-2005, 06:00 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by swirly - 02-05-2005, 08:53 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-05-2005, 11:08 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Quark - 02-05-2005, 01:17 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-05-2005, 02:45 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Leshy - 02-05-2005, 02:53 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-05-2005, 03:09 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Kevin - 02-05-2005, 03:17 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-05-2005, 04:17 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-05-2005, 04:26 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-05-2005, 05:29 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Tharn - 02-05-2005, 08:17 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-05-2005, 09:34 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Tharn - 02-05-2005, 10:42 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-06-2005, 09:19 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-06-2005, 12:15 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-06-2005, 03:48 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-06-2005, 04:19 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Kevin - 02-06-2005, 05:21 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Nystul - 02-06-2005, 05:21 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-06-2005, 05:36 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Nystul - 02-06-2005, 06:11 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-06-2005, 06:57 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Drasca - 02-06-2005, 09:53 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-06-2005, 10:17 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Nystul - 02-06-2005, 10:52 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Drasca - 02-07-2005, 01:50 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-07-2005, 07:03 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Drasca - 02-07-2005, 08:48 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Tharn - 02-07-2005, 09:05 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by nobbie - 02-07-2005, 09:56 AM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-07-2005, 02:21 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-07-2005, 02:27 PM
WOW - New Graphics Card or more RAM? - by Roland - 02-08-2005, 01:11 AM
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