UPDATE: Well I've been today confirmed that I'm allowed to spend 700U$S so that is great news. I've now decided I'm going to buy some new equipment oriented to great gaming experience; what would you go for with THAT money within Asus branch? Should I sell my previous pc? is it worth it? or is better thinking to keep it? Thanks in advanced :ff:
CoD2 won't play smoothly at high settings with your system, and probably not medium either. Unfortunately, AMD no longer produce the socket A athlon or sempron range, so you'll have to look around for some that are still around. You should consider upgrading your RAM, by either adding more or buying at least 512mb of a faster speed. The easiest way is to add more of the same speeds so you have at least 512mb for games. If you're motherboard as you say is only 266MHz FSB, then you'll only be able to add more. The next thing is your graphics card. You could consider upgrading to a Radeon 9600 XT, or if you have more to spend Radeon 9800 Pro or XT (XT being better). You're CPU could also do with upgrading, but your motherboard's FSB will put a limit to things. what you could do is try and overclock it, but thats another story.
So you don't think I should change the whole thing? How much would perfomance improve with that changes you mention? And last but not least, here are some video cards I can buy, tell which you think is the best VGA AGP 128MB FX5200 GEFORCE 54.07U$S VGA AGP 128MB MX4000 GEFORCE 45.79U$S VGA AGP 128MB MX4000 T128 MSI 47.16U$S VGA AGP 128MB NX6200 TD128 MSI 155.47U$S VGA AGP 128MB NX6600 VTD128 MSI 167.62U$S VGA AGP 128MB NX6600 VTD128 MSI DIA 218.57U$S VGA AGP 128MB R9250 SAPPHIRE 49.26U$S VGA AGP 256MB 9200 ATI OEM 67.65U$S VGA AGP 256MB FX5200 GEFORCE DDR TV 74.75U$S VGA AGP 256MB FX5500 GEFORCE 82.62U$S VGA AGP 256MB FX5500 GF EVGA 85.77U$S VGA AGP 256MB GF6600 XFX 173.05U$S VGA AGP 256MB NX6200 TD256 MSI 170.25U$S
I'd go with the XFX GF6600 or the MSI NX6600 VTD128 Actually, if you can swing it, I'd jump to a card with the 6600GT. I would also bump your RAM up to at least 512MB, but if you're not going to rebuild it, I would spend the money and get 1GB. If you have the money, an upgrade of your motherboard, CPU, video card, RAM and power supply (I'd also suggest going for a larger HDD unless you don't keep much on your rig). Depending on the parts you went with, you could get it anywhere from $700-1000 USD, $2100-3000 in your country.
yea search for a good socket 754 motherboard and processor a sempron 2800 64 bit or entry level Athlon 64 should do such as a 2800 or the new venice core 3000 which is highly overclockable. The reson i suggest a socket754 is cause of its large selection of boards at a cheap price.The downside is its jus about obsolete and it doesnt support dual channel (but so does socket A), but theres a plus you can always find a cheap upper level socket 754 Athlon 64 at a decent price now and you can use PCI express video cards which means the 6600/gt is usable. Note: Socket 754 is only suggest that you not intending on spending alot of money and or cause u live in a country that charges major for ship and has overpriced obsolete parts.
