mrjohnstrange
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I have an old PC that has an Athlon64 3200+, 512mb PC3200 and a Geforce FX5950. The motherboard doesn't have any PCI-E slots.
I really don't use it enough to justify spending a lot of money on a real upgrade but would like to try out a few newer and upcoming games like Stalker, Fallout 3, etc.
It seems that for around £100 I can either upgrade the ram to 2GB and add a new graphics card (would a 3850 be going too far?) or I can upgrade the ram and swap out the motherboard and cpu for say an Athlon x2 5200+ which would give me integrated graphics (better than the geforce FX?).
Anyways what would give me the best bang for my buck? I know that upgrading the motherboard would allow me to get a PCI-E graphics card, however I probably wouldn't do that as I don't want to spend much more than £100 and just want a little more oomf! So what graphics card/motherboard/processor?
thanks ! !
I really don't use it enough to justify spending a lot of money on a real upgrade but would like to try out a few newer and upcoming games like Stalker, Fallout 3, etc.
It seems that for around £100 I can either upgrade the ram to 2GB and add a new graphics card (would a 3850 be going too far?) or I can upgrade the ram and swap out the motherboard and cpu for say an Athlon x2 5200+ which would give me integrated graphics (better than the geforce FX?).
Anyways what would give me the best bang for my buck? I know that upgrading the motherboard would allow me to get a PCI-E graphics card, however I probably wouldn't do that as I don't want to spend much more than £100 and just want a little more oomf! So what graphics card/motherboard/processor?
thanks ! !