MY next upgrade AMD Opteron, Intel P5 or getting X-BOX ?


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Looking at my rig listed below anybody will tell i need a Upgrade. But looking at the choices i have i m just not able to decide which should i opt for.

My sole goal is to be able to play any games at/above 75 FPS@ 1024*768 res. even with DirectX9 and its games are available.

I will start with AGP.

The graphic-card , AGP , whatever u call:-

Its the most imp part in our lives(OK rig). Its looks insane i have both Geforce 2 MX and Radeon 64mb (its another story). The choices i have is 2 go for either Geforce 4 ti 4200/4600 or ATI 8500 or go/wait for ATI R300 / Nvidia NV30(remember both Directx9EnabledCards are/will be 8X). Or should i get a X-box.

The last option is a little tricky. since i leave in Mumbai,India it will be really hard to find X BOX and its DVDs.

Cpu and MB:-

Hey i know Duron Sucks now, But what should i do? Should i go for P-4 2 giga with 850MB and 256 Rd-1026 Ram or AMD XP 2000+ Via KT333 mb and 256 MB 333 ram. (hey remember i want a 8X AGP slot MB).

Or better, wait for AMD Opteron and MBs supporting 8X AGP and DDR 400 and above.

Hey i don'nt have cash waiting to be dumped but my rig looks pale now.

It has served me for better part of year and there r no signs of slowing the most common things i do.

I would wait for your post and then say (OK write) what i think is the most sensible option.

Update:- I hav updated my SYS Little bit as u can figure it out from my Sig.

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My SYS Couple of week before

Duron 850 (soon getting AthlonXP). Soltek KT 133 MB

256 mb PC-133,IBM 7200 30 GB GB, Sony 16X CD-RW,12X DVD

Geforce 2 MX 32 MB/currently using ATI RADEON 7200 64 mb ddr VIVO , SB-Live Value. !7 " Viewsonic. Logitech Webcam.

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If you want to play any games at/above 75 FPS@ 1024*768, then why do you want a console? They are 99.9% of the time made to play at a fixed rate between 30fps and 60fps. And unless you plan on playing on a HDTV you're limited to the 640 x 480 res of a TV.

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You NEED DDRRAM to go with that Athlon XP, theres no doubt there. Then just get a new GFX card, you'll be getting 100fps+ at 1280x1024, you underestimate todays cards.

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Hey i don'nt have cash waiting to be dumped but my rig looks pale now.

this is nonsense...

your system is better in almost everything than mine, the only thing that i have better is the processor which is a xp 2000+ and the memory which is 512

just wait!

your system is fine for now

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Your system is not bad, if I where you I would upgrade the video Card to a TI4200 and that would allow play the games you want now at the speed you want.

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If you have the money, I suggest you wait a couple weeks for the Radeon 9700 to become available. It should work with your mobo since it's backwards compatible with AGP 4x.

The Opteron is supposed to be out around January 2003, while the P5 should be out around summer 2003. The Opteron seems very promising and if you can wait, I suggest you get an Opteron CPU, mobo, and new memory all at once.

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Hey

If anybody does get a ATI 9700 make post and let know how you like it. I am will be getting either my third Nvidia card or my first ATI 9000-9700 series card , and would like to know what real people thing not paid reviewers of hardware

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The Fire GL card cost some serious cash, I looked at it on pricewatch.com and saw older models cost up to $2000.00 , The one with 256MB of RAM has to cost least that much or more:S

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