| I'm sure you'll be able to push more life into that P4 of yours.. considering its a once mighty Northwood, get that thing up to like 3.2Ghz then you'll be less limited.. Or look for a cheapo 2nd hand Northwood that is capable of doing 3.2-3.4Ghz..
But thats if ur certain you want to stay with AGP (which is not all that bad considering there's the 7800GS+ 512MB around), just as long as u have a high speced CPU and ample amount of mem to feed it..
AGP upgrade list would be
£320 for a 7800GS+ Bliss 512MB
£70 for a 2nd hand Northwood that does 3.4Ghz (or clock yours to 3.4Ghz)
£60 for another pair of 512MB sticks to make it 2GB..
Total = £450 (or £380), you'll get a almost limited system on a super graphic card..
PCI-E upgrade list
£200 for a weaker 7900GT 256MB
£60 decent 939 board from Asus or Abit
£110 Opteron 146
£110 for a pair of 1Gb sticks non XMS stuff..
Total = £480
Sell your old bits on HEXUS, return = £110+
Total - £370ish.. and overclock that 146 to 2.8Ghz to get a system that will totally smack your old P4.. regardless whether its BLISS or not..
If your AGP system was say an MSI Neo 2 Platinum running an FX-53 or Athlon 64 3200+ bits then things would be different..
My XPS 16 = fail
Good that it RATs into my lab's 1024 node cluster..  |