computer question

raygun

so im running a built system and its not as powerful as i could get it.  im running off a gig of ram and just  a lowly radeon x700 series video card, can anyone recommend what i ugrade first, the memory to 2 gigs or the video card?

 

thanks ahead of time for the advice.

nekrothing

Although having 2B's of RAM will help your PC, I would recommend that you go upgrade your video card first. You would see a more significant improvement by upgrading your video card to something like X1950 PRO or GeForce 7950 GT then upgrading your RAM to 2GB's.

CleffyII

Ya upgrade your video card.  It will have a huge impact then upgrading ram in any visual application.  Non-visual applications usually don't require much ram unless they are bloatware like Norton Anti-Virus.  Like I changed my renderer to render from Video Card in a 3D App, and what was a 1 hour render per frame turned into a 3 minute render per frame.

raygun

thanks guys

Ecranomical

just a question, but what CPU are you using and what is it clocked at?

raygun

amd anthalon 64

2.01 ghz

 

i think thats what its clocked at but im not that computer savy, my friend helped me put it together.

raygun

i started looking into it and i may have to upgrade my motherboard too as i am using pci ports and not pci express or agp...hmm.  am i totally screwed for the future of gaming?  i feel maybe i should just get a new computer with stuff preinstalled.

ImixZinz

At this point, judging by what little information you've given, id say you should look into upgrading the whole PC if its an option, as all of the new hardware is NOT backwards compatible with older mobo's and old hardware is not compatible with new Mobo's.

 

*edit* by upgrading whole pc i mean, BUY A NEW ONE!

raygun

yeah thats what i was starting to realize