ok guys, i need your help.

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i have $85 USD to spend.

now, what to spend it on?:D

heres my sys loadout.

AMD Athlon ThunderBird 1.0 ghz proccy with 266 FSB
Shuttle AK11 mobo, using onboard AC'97 sound.
384 meg of Kingston PC133 ram
3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 APG w/Fan+OC
1.44mm Sony Floppy
8x Toshiba DVD-Rom
16x10x40 LITEON CD-RW
Macronix 100mbps LAN
Western Digital 45 gig 5400 RPM UMDA66 HDD
300W ATX tower

though keep in mind theres no point upgrading somthing if its only gonna be a little (like a 1.0 to a 1.2 ghz) and i would prefer to buy everything at newegg.com
 
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Well if you want to come out cheap and have a some cash left over maybe more ram?

Or maybe a new sound card and disable your onboard sound? Some decent mid-range sound cards are about that much.

Not alot you can get that will be a big upgrade for $85 with your rig. I.E. hard drives are about that much but they're only about 40gig and you have 45.

Or save up and get a better vid card maybe. Get something better than a geforce2 mx like a higher geforce2 (pro, gts, ti) or a radeon.
 
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hmm. true. no need for more ram, im sorry but having 1 gig of ram is just a bit excessive, i can hardly every use more than 3/4 of my current amount. im not gonna dump the voodoo for anything less than a GEF3 or somthing similar, maybe a radeon, but i fear ATI's drivers. wish there was some place i could still pickup a V5 5000 :hmm:
 
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Originally posted by FireSlash
hmm. true. no need for more ram, im sorry but having 1 gig of ram is just a bit excessive, i can hardly every use more than 3/4 of my current amount. im not gonna dump the voodoo for anything less than a GEF3 or somthing similar, maybe a radeon, but i fear ATI's drivers. wish there was some place i could still pickup a V5 5000 :hmm:
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There's no such thing as having too much ram.:D

Hmm... a V5 would be a good with your rig, they scale nicely with processors and it would be a good hold over card until the next gen cards come out to help drive down the cost of the current cards.
 
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ok. im looking at VCs, anyone wanna point out the best one? not sure, reviews are all differnt. :hmm:
  • Hercules/Guillemot 3D Prophet II Geforce2 Titanium 64MB AGP with Tv-Out
  • ATI Radeon 7500 64MB DDR AGP OEM
  • VisionTek Xtasy 5864 (GeForce2 Ti Graphics Chipset). 64MB DDR 4X/2X, AGP - RETAIL
  • LEADTEK GEFORCE2 TI 64MB TV VGA CARD- RETAIL
  • Gainward/Cardexpert GeForce 2 TITANIUM Ti/500XP, 4ns 64MB DDR, VIVO, Golden Sample Plus. Retail
  • MSI G2Ti PRO-T (MS-8855 8855-020) GeForce2 Titanium 64MB DDR SDRAM

if you want more info theres full descriptions at newegg. just the stuff i can afford considering a get a few bucks for my V3 and a few more bucks elsewhere.
 
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well, i just placed my order at newegg.

Radeon 7500 is is. i figure i can survive buggy drivers, it CANT be worse than the hell i go through right now with my V3 3000 and XP. try to run GL more than once pre boot and j00 get a nice pretty scrambled screen! or, the random memory dumps are great too!;)
 
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Originally posted by Elrod
I'm sure you'll be happy with your new toy. I went to my current Radeon VIVO from a V3 3500, and I remember that being an impressive jump, and since the 7500 is a few steps higher, it should be a significant improvement ... as long as the drivers don't get to you... ;)
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bah. back in my day we wrote our own drivers for our video cards, and liked it!;)

yay! i get to stalk the FedEx man again! woohoo!:D
 
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