i just bought a computer from a company..its a Dark Void Assault Custom Gaming PC..it has a AMD 3700+ processor on an ASUS mother board 1GB of RAM (when it arrives at my house im adding another 768MB of RAM so a total of 1.792GB of RAM) a NVIDIA 6800XT PCI-E video card..it seems like a nasty PC to me for gaming any thing anyone can think of thats bad on this or could be better...?
2006-07-13 08:46:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
PCI video card... should have gotten AGP for now...
2006-07-13 08:49:36 · answer #1 · answered by Duds331 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the ram it is probably DDR 400 but make sure you buy all the same speed cause if you have mismatched it will operate at the slowest speed of the slowest ram. Latency is anjother important thing in ram the best is 2 2 2 6 for DDR again if you have mismatched ram it will operate at the highest latency. For a gaming machine you need a fast hdd the western digital Raptor is the best, some people RAID but that is overkill, just make sure you have enough cooling
2006-07-13 15:58:29 · answer #2 · answered by johnman142 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, DON"T ADD NON-SYMMETRICAL RAM!!!!!!
Make sure all the sticks are from the same brand and capacity (and best to even be the same series)
RAM operates at "latency timmings" 5-5-5-12 is common, and also at certain speeds (your Front Side Bus speed) around 800MHz. If every stick isn't the same it really throughs off your processor, and NorthBridge (or is it the SouthBridge, Hmmmm..)
Oh, yeah ATI is better, Mwaahhaaahhhaaa
2006-07-13 15:55:12 · answer #3 · answered by tesla_drummer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The video card is fine. It's not PCI it's PCI Express which is better than AGP.
2006-07-13 17:13:49 · answer #4 · answered by Yauna P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-13 15:50:35 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Wizard 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no guarantee your 768 MB will be compatible with the mother board. What is the speed of the hard drive?
2006-07-13 15:49:57 · answer #6 · answered by thunder2sys 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You got to get 256MB ATI® MobilityTM RADEON® X1800
2006-07-13 15:56:18 · answer #7 · answered by masihm_2005 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋