For about $550
 

A friend is looking to upgrade. Is this good enough if he really just plays Call of Duty?

ASUS K8N4-E DELUXE Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce4 ATX AMD Motherboard - $104.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131533


AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Newcastle 800MHz FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket 754 Processor - $193.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103483


ATI RADEON 9800PRO 128M Radeon 9800PRO 128MB 256-bit DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card - $136.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814102286


CREATIVE Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit - $29.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6829102177

Buy a 6600

yeah radeon pro 9800 - 1.5 shaders
gt 6600 - 3.0

Sorry to get offtopic, but I have a question I've been meaning to ask.

I have a 6800 (not GT) in my new computer. How do they compare to other cards? It seems to run fine for me, and it's definately an upgrade from my old FX5200

[quote="Cool Fool":0fb51]yeah radeon pro 9800 - 1.5 shaders
gt 6600 - 3.0[/quote:0fb51]

I see no 3.0, so I am assuming you mean 2.0.

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well jin roh on the box it says 3.0? maybe im mistaken...but well get a newer card, not an ati radeon pro 9800...like a x700 or something

A 6600GT would be better, but as you asked - it WILL run COD pretty well. How much RAM would you put in it? I'd recommend a gig. This setup would also run bf2 (should you get it) on low/medium settings (as long as you have the gig ram)

I agree

That mobo sucks, if you want to go s754 (not sure why you would since s939 is the same price...) Get the [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136147:b949a]DFI Lanparty UT nF3[/url:b949a] It's the best s754 by far.


Video card, definitely get a 6600GT. It rapes everything in that price range.

If he plans on using that computer for a couple years why not go with a socket 939? 64 bit is only going to get more popular why not be thinking ahead?
and a 6600 GT is a wonderfull card, i have one myself and seems to stomp on any ATI card in its price range.

hell i could run on high if it was a gt6600

i got a 2.0 ghz amd, 1 gb ram, soundblaster 24 bit, gt6600...runs fine on high

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yeah wtf ati dosent even have anything close to competing with Nvidias high end cards

[quote="Simo Häyhä":77905]yeah wtf ati dosent even have anything close to competing with Nvidias high end cards[/quote:77905]

wtf... stupid:

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rock: rock: rock: rock:

[quote=Milla]wtf... stupid:[/quote:f6dda]
7800GTX is almost twice as fast a X850XT in some tests... Then there is still SLI...

7800GT is like 5 frames slower than a 7800GTX and is cheaper than most X850XTs.

ATi still has to make something to compete with that card, isnt it newer than the X850?

Ya, R520 is ATI's new card... But new rumors state that it won't even be in production (much less on the shelf) until October.

eh october is only less 2 months away. I cant afford either card anyway so.

ATI has been delaying that card for a long time. I think it will never come out
so for the time being Nvidia > ATI

thank you

[quote="Simo Häyhä":1a812]ATI has been delaying that card for a long time. I think it will never come out
so for the time being Nvidia > ATI

thank you[/quote:1a812]
Well they never actually gave a release date. But they've had a ton of production problems. Switching to 90nm fab was not kind to them at all annoy:


I already bought my 7800GT, so I don't care.

Now intel and AMD are thinking about a 65nm production. ohhh goody