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Upgrade or not to upgrade that is the question

  • 12-06-2003 11:57am
    #1
    gaizka71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭


    well actually the question is how much money you have...

    anyway. this is the system I have now
    Dell L600cx (3 years old) originally a celeron processor upgraded to a pentium III 1Ghz
    Intel 810e, no AGP graphics on board, disable this and have a 16MB Nvidia TNT2
    256MB pc100 + 65MB pc133
    Hard disk 30GB (3 partitions 7 + 16 + 4 (linux))

    OS win2000 sp3 / Mandrake9.1

    I use it mainly for a bit of java programming, some games and the web, but the graphics card is what is letting the system down...

    I was looking at prices for a decent PCI graphics card and they are very rare and expensive compared with the AGP ones... should I just scrap the system alltogether,and get a new one?

    Should I just bite the bullet and pay the price for a PCI graphics card?

    ah, decisions, decisions... life is full of them....


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  • #2
    Kavs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭Kavs


    Bite the bullet! Check out Komplett.ie prices for urself ,now is the best time to buy computer components Ram + cpu(AMD) prices have hit rock bottom!Maybe add a AGP 8x radeon to the package and u got urself a sweet machine.

    Check out me thread from a couple of weeks ago!
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=98042


  • #3
    Kavs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭Kavs


    Sh**e that should read don't bite the bullet and upgrade!:)


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