what option should i take?

[anonymous7]

option 1:
sell current pc for ps3?
- x2 4400+
- 3gb ram
- x850 xt platinum edition
- 320gb hard drive
- vista 32bit

or

option 2:
buy 8800 gts g92 and 2x2gb stick ram (2x512mb obsolete) which will make my rig:
- x2 4400+
- 6gb ram
- 8800 gts g92
- vista 32bit (upgrade to 64bit)

if i chose option 2... it will be keep as is for long long time. ill be playing lord of the rings conquest online, nfs undercover online and unreal tournament 3 online, blade and soul, guildwars 2, champions online, lineage 3, mabinogi heroes, continent of the ninth, huxley, 3feel, battle raper 2

[RicheemxX]

You need an option for neither 6gigs of ram won't do you any good with Vista 32bit. Just get the 8800.

[ShyguyXPC]

question? how do you get 6GB RAM from 2x 2GB?

even if you add in 2x 2GB + 2x 512MB thats only 5GB, or are you going to be running something like 2x 2GB + 2x 1GB (3GB total currently can only be had in 2x 1GB + 2x 512MB config)

either way as Rich mentioned, you won't be able to use 6GB with 32-bit OS... 4GB max, which you'll also have to subtract the amount of memory on the video card from that 4GB, which will give you roughly what you'll have, to use in Windows.

if your running 3GB now, and say you grabbed a 1GB memory card, you've hit your 4GB limit for 32-bit. (will probably be over it actually, factoring in Cache memory of CPU, Hard drive/s, Optical Drive/s etc)

as rich said, best bet is just get the vid card & you'll be fine, if you intent on using more RAM, then grab the Vid card & a copy of Vista 64-bit for now, RAM is cheap enough, you might be able to throw in more in a few months if needed, when some of those games come out if at all.

I think the most graphically & resourse intensive one you listed there will be Huxley if & when ever it comes out.

or even just grab a slightly better & faster Geforce 9800GTX+.

[anonymous7]

current ram is two sticks of 1gb and two sticks of 512mb. 3gb total.
if option 2.. will add two sticks of 2gb to current and throw away two sticks of 512mb.

two sticks of 1gb (keep)
two sticks of 512mb (throw)
two sticks of 2gb (add to current)
total of 6gb

oh yeah forgot about os. i can upgrade to 64bit vista no problem.

i am pretty tigh budget. so suggest jus get graphic card?

[ShyguyXPC]

yeah, that will be the single biggest bump in performance, the OS will be minor, as would the RAM, your already at 3GB, maybe bump it to 1GB extra, to an even 4GB, you'd lose half a gig with the vid card (if you got a 512MB card), but if running Vista, there'd be plenty for Vista & background apps to run on, while still leaving a decent amount for the games.

as long as you have a good 1.5 to 2GB of RAM for the games, not including the OS, it should be fine.

any idea of how much RAM Vista currently uses up with your 3GB you have now?

as to the video card, anything higher than a 8800GTS 512 or 9800GTX/GTX+ will be bottle neck on your CPU anyways. might even be a slight bottleneck with those cards, but not too much. not enough to not warrant getting one. My current G92 8800GTS was a bit getting bottlenecked on my Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 which would been in the same range as your AMD chip, probably a hair better & was getting in the way of the GTS's full performance, not by much, but enough to notice when I finally installed my Q6600 Quad core.

are you running DDR or DDR2 on that system (is it Socket 939 or AM2/AM2+?)

if its DDR, forget about the RAM increase, just grab a vid card & that should be fine. for what DDR's value is trying to sell it, it doesn't really warrant throwing in a larger lump of it or upgrading if your already at 3GB.

I'd just grab a vid card upgrade & then save up for a newer better system down the road if you are stuck on Socket 939.

[anonymous7]

it is ddr2 pc2 5300. no idea how much ram vista use on my current 3gig. no idea if its 939 or am2 but i think its am2.

ill think more. thanks for the suggesion and ideas.