UPDATE:

Until I decide what to do I have re-installed my old Asus P4T/P4 1.7GHz/1gb Rambus with my newer ATi 9250 256MB P.O.C. Miracle of Miracles... I can play BF2 without it freezing up :) ...

Yeah, I just checked it out... thanks

AMD Athlon 64 3200+(CG,SledgeHammer,130nm,L2-512KB) 1600
- OK!

Cool, so now I am switching focus... I'm gonna bite the bullet (use plastic) and get the Athlon64 3200+ and the 6600GT. You only live once, right? Thanks for all the input.

rs

Yes, but what about what Cocnut Monkey said?



The reality is I have already purchased this. My older mobo is not upwardly scalable and it wouldn't take more than a 2.4GHz, not much of an...

OK, now I'm looking at the X700 PCIe. Will the PCI express interface work in a standard PCI slot? I don't think my mobo has the PCI express interface.

Ok, thanks for the advice. I will probably wait a few months and get the right card the first time. You mentioned the 6600GT, but it is not listed in the BF2 supprted video cards. Will it still do...

approx. $80 - $85 USD

I didn't know... thanks for the education. I am glad to hear that the technology in the Sempron is superior. I began to have my doubts about the 9250 becasue I was pretty sure that a less than 10%...

I need some objective feedback on the following situation. Opinions are welcome (AMD vs. Intel, etc...) but I need some feedback from you hardcore techies on how to proceed. Thanks in advance.

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Yeah, I got the Gigabyte GA-K8NS mobo with the AMD Sempron 2800+ (1.61GHz) cpu, and 1 stick of PC3200 DDR 512MB.

It clocks a little slower than what I had (Intel P4 1.7GHz) but I believe it...

wow, great minds must think alike... I just went out today and picked up a mobo/cpu/ram combo for $195 (no rebate tho' - damn). Got it all back together and here I am. Seems to be working out very...

Help an old newbie out. I am looking to buy an Intel P4 2.4 GHz cpu for my Asus P4T-E mobo. Lame, I know, but it's all I've got. The mobo has 400 MHz FSB. The proc. I'm looking at has a 800MHz bus...