Next Best Step for upgrade???

[stapletonk]

I just bought a saphire radeon pro 9600 video card. I have 1.6 ghz p4 512k cache, with 1gb mem, and an asus motherboard with an dagp slot of 4x. My video card supports x8 AGP. What would be a better upgrade. A faster proccesor or a new motherboard? Or something else? I ran the benchmark and on low res i got 2900, on high res i got 2390. From what I'm seeing that doesn't seem to be very good. Please help me!!! Thanx for your time....

[aerobahn]

OK 4x and 8x Have no difference other than one is 8 and one is 4 hahah. There is no preformence gain from 4 to 8

Second its your CPU holding you back.
Goto ASUS' website to find out how high of a CPU your mobo can support. Buy what you can afford CPU wise:spin:

[stapletonk]

thanx Aerobahn!!! I will upgrade. One other quick question I've got a 60gb hdd, 7200rpm. with nearly 10gb of space available. Which will be nearly full once i get my hands on FFXI!!! Might need to do some cleaning. Would buying a new hdd help speed things up?

[InuTrunks]

Cleaning up alot of the crap on your hdd will help, make sure you defrag also.

Also, to incrase bootup time, make sure you only have programs you want to start up.

[aerobahn]

Also remeber todo the BOOT defrag!!!

I also recommend that you a fresh reinstall if possible right befor the game comes out

But most people will ignore me......

[InuTrunks]

Yea, I've got a 120 gig 7200 ata133 hdd waiting for my fresh install Going to have a 5 gig partition for windows, (then going to use partition magic to make a parttition inside a partition.)

Going to have a 10 gig partition for FFXI, and then the rest will be junk :D

[stapletonk]

Thanx for all of your help guys. How do I do a boot defrag?

[Fire]

its in the how to tweak win xp sticky at the top of this section.