Upgrading: Please help me to choose the correct components--

Look guys. I upgraded my pc about 3 yrs ago. U can find my config in my signature.

My pc has become a bit slow now, I cant play a single new game release.

I have a budget of Rs 10000

I was considering to upgrade the following:
Processor:AMD athlon x2 245 Rs 3500
Motherboard: Biostar 790GX RS 4500
RAM: 2GB DDR2 Rs 1200
Cabinet: Zebronics Bijli Rs 1500.

But as a second option, instead of upgrading the processor, board and ram, I thought of buying a Ati 4670 graphics card(Rs 4200) and the cabinet(zebronics bijli with stock smps), {Coz da cheaper da better}

So which will give me more gaming performance? Or is there anything else
I should upgrade? Please help me guys......I cant even play nfs undercdover!!

^Good choice of config!

Please check the price of 785G based mobo from Gigabyte. It should give you even better gfx I suppose. I would recommend that you increase your budget to about 15k and get a decent PSU with the package like Antec EA 650 or Seasonic 460W or Corsair VX450W.

Techalomaniac said:
^Good choice of config!

Please check the price of 785G based mobo from Gigabyte. It should give you even better gfx I suppose. I would recommend that you increase your budget to about 15k and get a decent PSU with the package like Antec EA 650 or Seasonic 460W or Corsair VX450W.

Thnx

Which gives more grafix performance: My old athlon 3000 with ati 4670 discrete graphics card or the new AMd athlon II X2 245 with 790gx onboard grafix?

And as I am a student, dad wont let me up da budget much....max will be 12000.....but as i said....the lower the better...

And can stock psu of Zebronics bijli handle Ati 4670?

Thnx

I tried to run HD4770 on my old Athlon 3000+ (venice core) but the processor proved to be a too much of a bottleneck. My suggestion would be wait till 785G is fully available and then upgrade to

Phenom II or Athlon II X2
758G
DDR3
9600GT

^It might just be able to handle it but it will get overloaded for sure after a period of time and will harm other components. For now, if you want to game only:

A). Open your cabinet and clean all the dust in it, preferably use a vaccuum cleaner or a simple dust blower with a dry cloth should do.
B). Get a decent GFX card like the 4670 512MB GDDR3 or 9600GT 512MB GDDR3, and game happily. I dunno if that PSU will handle it still
C). I would recommend you wait for some time before you upgrade ur CPU and mobo.

desiibond said:
I tried to run HD4770 on my old Athlon 3000+ (venice core) but the processor proved to be a too much of a bottleneck. My suggestion would be wait till 785G is fully available and then upgrade to

Phenom II or Athlon II X2
758G
DDR3
9600GT

How much of a bottleneck will it be? Can I play GTA4?
And I dont have the money to buy an smps.....so 9600gt is out of the question...(i hope stock psus can run 4670)
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Techalomaniac said:
^It might just be able to handle it but it will get overloaded for sure after a period of time and will harm other components. For now, if you want to game only:

A). Open your cabinet and clean all the dust in it, preferably use a vaccuum cleaner or a simple dust blower with a dry cloth should do.
B). Get a decent GFX card like the 4670 512MB GDDR3 or 9600GT 512MB GDDR3, and game happily. I dunno if that PSU will handle it still
C). I would recommend you wait for some time before you upgrade ur CPU and mobo.

Ok....thanks......but what harm will it do??

if I am right, HD4670 and 9600GT take same amount of power. look for one that comes with GDDR3 as it will take little less power than one that is using GDDR2.

9600GT can run with and without extra +6 pin pcie power
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GeekyBoy said:
How much of a bottleneck will it be? Can I play GTA4?

GTA 4 is more dependent on processor than GFx card , in my PC(AMD 3500+,512MB RAM , 8400GS) it was sure unplayable (RAM is bottelneck here)

max_demon said:
9600GT can run with and without extra +6 pin pcie power
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But most of the review sites say otherwise....anyway, I was hearing about new launches in the graphics card arena.....so should a wait a little before i buy the 4670 or 9600gt?

new ones are gonna cost around 10k. you can wait another week to see if there is anything else in the bag.

GeekyBoy said:
But most of the review sites say otherwise....anyway, I was hearing about new launches in the graphics card arena.....so should a wait a little before i buy the 4670 or 9600gt?

*www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9600gt_us.html

See in the specification , there are 2 columns , one for 96W and other of 59W , scroll down in the bottom and see they have diff requirments , they are of same card but will work faster if additional power is supplied .

so someday if you decide that you need extra power just add psu and you will get wooping 50MHz increasement

Does your mobo support the graphics card you mentioned . . I doubt it . .

phuchungbhutia said:
Does your mobo support the graphics card you mentioned . . I doubt it . .

It has a pcie x16 1.0 slot.....I've heard Pcie 2.0 cards are backward compatible with PCIE 1.0....so I guess it will run......what do you guys say??

^^yes. that should be fine.

max_demon said:
*www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9600gt_us.html

See in the specification , there are 2 columns , one for 96W and other of 59W , scroll down in the bottom and see they have diff requirments , they are of same card but will work faster if additional power is supplied .

so someday if you decide that you need extra power just add psu and you will get wooping 50MHz increasement

I think thats the green edition of 9600Gt......but how is the availability? I dont hear anyone talking about the green edition and stuff?

^^damn if u are saying is true then my 9600gt is lost .

i had purchased 9600gt few days ago only , i will try and post results what happned