Successful Install! Followup questions please.
I did it! Forgive my excitement but I never installed a new board, processor and power supply before. Took awhile including returning the first board for a new one, but it works! I'm so dang proud.
I installed the K8T Neo FIS2R with the Athlon 64 3200+ and an Enermax PSU. Only glitch so far is that the setup didn't seem to like my older Audigy soundcard, so I'm using onboard sound atm. MSI doesn't make it easy either to disable certain things I'm not using, like onboard LAN and such, but eventually I got it. Now here's my questions:
My son can finally run Doom3 on this upgraded system, but it's still not wonderful. My current graphics card is an Nvidia 5600 FX with 256mb. Even with the latest drivers I'm wondering if there is a newer and better card that would make a significant difference and work well with the board and processor. Also, I know that one of these days when my wallet is a bit fatter I will need to upgrade RAM. I'm using what I had and it's PC2100 with one at 512 and 2x256. All runs fine but I'm guessing I'd get some performance improvement with newer RAM. Am I guessing correctly about these two issues?
So far the system isn't recognizing my DVD drive either, but I have the CDR so we're ok for now. Any thoughts on that, too? DVD was set up as a slave to the hard drive.
Thank you in advance for your patience with this newb!
MEM
i know the feeling you get when you hit the power switch and everything purrs into life... happened for me earlier this year and boy it feels good lol.
GFX card: it all depends on how much you want to spend. if you're stuck on nvidia, the newest (read: most expensive) card out is the 6800 (i think) and the newest ati card is an X800 (again, i think!)
they are the top of the range, from what i've read, doom 3 will need quite a good card to run with top settings. the stuff i've read points to the radeon 9800xt as being pretty good value for money and is probably what i'll switch to next, although i've heard horror stories about switching from an nvidia to an ati :/
read some benchmarks, read reviews. i haven't read any benchmarks for a while, but i'm sure they'll be using doom 3 to benchmark some cards out there now!
ram: i have 2x512mb and it works like a charm, i'd recommend this amount of ram to anybody. there's more expert people to talk about ram than me though.
HTH
cheers
JJ
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