i have to computers that i want to upgrade. which is worth upgrading?
PC 1:
HP pavillion
intel celeron D 3.06ghz
760mb RAM
40gb hdd
ATI radeon 9250 PCI video card
PC 2:
Custom built
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
512mb RAM
120gb hdd
nVidia geForce 4 MX440 (i dont think i works)
i want to know which system will work better for games. i cant get a better video card for the HP and its not too impressive with the games.
the other comp has an 8x AGP slot, so that has a lot of potential. i wanted to get a new video card for it possibly. what do you think will be best for racing games? i dont want to spend more than $150.
would it be better to invest in a new system? i get a lot of emails from tigerdirect for pcs like "celeron 3ghz, 250gb HDD, SLI ready, 500w psu, 1gb RAM, DVD burner..." for about $550.
i know its a good deal, but i cant front that kind of cash.
2007-02-11 15:34:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Well it is the second one, but not because of the processor. The Celeron D is actually the better of the two. Everyone just looks at Celeron and Athlon and immediately says Athlon is better, they fail to notice that they are looking at a fairly old Athlon compared to a fairly new Celeron, meaning the Celeron is actually better.
The biggest problem for the first is its lack of AGP or PCI Express, this means you have no room to upgrade for gaming. Hopefully the two use the same kind of RAM, so you could add the RAM from the first to the second. Then you could sell the rest of the first one, part by part on eBay, and hopefully get at least a small amount of money to put into the second.
2007-02-11 17:36:07 · answer #1 · answered by mysticman44 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
PC 2 would be the one to upgrade. Depending on the current motherboard, you could bump the processor up to a XP 2800+. Definitely put another half-gig of ram into the machine, and get a video card for about $100 bucks. ATI Radeon 9600 and an Athlon 2800+ is what I am currently running, pretty decent for Battlefield 2 and counter-strike.
www.newegg.com is the only place I deal with when purchasing computer parts, check it out.
2007-02-11 15:58:50 · answer #2 · answered by nt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PC#2 will be a better gaming machine. The HP has a celeron processor and those absolutely SUCK for gaming. The Athlon will do much better, but yo might want to bump up the RAM to 1GB. Plus you will need a a new video card as well...the MX series is not good for gaming.
2007-02-11 15:38:31 · answer #3 · answered by hllywood72 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PC 2.....hands down.
My theory about the creation of Celeron processors :
The Celeron chip was created when Intel got a bad case of hemorrhoids.
After much itching & scratching, scabs formed over the hemorrhoids.
When the scabs fell off Intel picked them up ... looked at them proudly & announced :
" Behold... the Celeron chip !"
regards,
Philip T
2007-02-11 16:06:14 · answer #4 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just save your cash and go to cyberpowerinc.com or ibuypower.com.
You are wasting your time and money if your motherboard isn't at least pci-e, without that you probably won't ever have a chance to get a direct-x 10 video card like the nvidia 8800 series, so don't waste your dough. If you abosolutely have to, get 2 sticks of pc2700 512meg ram for the athlon system and run it in dual-channel mode and try to bump up the frontside bus to 200mhz and see if it will hold, if it does that will overclock it to about an xp 3200. Then get at least a 6800 nvidia card. But, like I said, I would sell them both and save my dough.
2007-02-11 15:46:06 · answer #5 · answered by readmywritings 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋