Upgrade question

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 1:36 am

If you had the money to either upgrade your CPU or upgrade your Graphics card, which is better to reduce lag in games if you already have cable or DSL?

Baile · Post by **Baile** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 2:00 am

What are the specs of the machine you are upgrading?

Post by **Martrae** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 7:39 am

For a specific game?

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 10:59 am

AMD Athlon XP2500 OC'd to 2.2gig
Nvidia Ti4600 gpu
1 gig ram
cable internet

I play BF1942 (DC) mostly, and something in my system is causing lag and delays in shooting. I was thinking of either upgrading my CPU to the XP3200, or getting the new GFX 6800 AGP card. I don't like Ati Radeon cards, nor am I impressed with the FPS they're getting out of pci-express, so AGP is fine with me.

Minrott · Post by **Minrott** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 11:34 am

video card first, cpu second.

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 12:39 pm

Ok, also... how big of a difference would it make if I bought one more gig of ram? Seems to me that 1 gig would be enough.

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 12:42 pm

BF-1942 is heavily processor dependant.

Ram has very little impact after 1gb except in high end media manipulation.

-Adam

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 2:13 pm

Ok thank you

brinstar · Post by **brinstar** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 7:54 pm

ya definitely get a new graphics card dude

that cpu you have still has a lot of miles left on it