question about upgrading...
here are my current system specs:
Falcon Northwest
Athlon T-Bird 800 Mhz
Asus A7V Mobo
128 MB Crucial PC133 RAM
Annihilator 2 GeForce 2 GTS 32 MB video card
Soundblaster Live! Value soundcard
Pioneer 16x DVD-ROM
30 GB 7200RPM hard drive (i forget who the manufacturer is)
anyway, i've noticed the quite a few of my recent games run like crap on the system. i don't know what the problem is, but some games (namely Alice, which runs at about 5 fps, and Undying, which refuses to run at anything higher than 800x600 and even then is still relatively choppy) are pretty much unplayable. Then there's Diablo 2 which runs at a pretty consistent 10-16 fps, unless i go to the pause/menu screen in which case it bumps up to over 100+ fps.
what i'm intending to do in the very near future is double the RAM and purchase a GeForce 3 card. could someone tell me if these upgrades will result in a substantial improvement? i'd really like to play Max Payne, but i hate to think how it would run on my machine. will the power of the GeForce 3 be bottlenecked by my 800 Mhz processor, or should it still run significantly better than my geforce 2? i plan to upgrade my processor sometime soon as well, but first i'd like to increase the RAM and get a nice video card. upon reading this post, it seems like this is sort of an unanswerable question, but if someone could help or give me any input at all, i would much appreciate it. thanks.
