Tryn to Upgrade my Box ( need some help with it)

[NyuSakur]

Hello,as my title says am tryn to upgrade my PC .. so far i found some stuff for it but the rly messy one is the Video card.

Specs of current

Operating System
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3

Main Circuit Board b
Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. 8PEMT4
Bus Clock: 125 megahertz

Processor a
3.00 gigahertz Intel Celeron
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
128 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Not hyper-threaded

(P.S Gona Upgrade it to P4 Northwood 3,06 GHZ )

Memory Modules c,d
Slot 'A0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A1' is Empty

(P.S Gona Upgrade it to 2 Gb )

Display
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 [Display adapter]
LG L1740B [Monitor] (17.1"vis, s/n 405474, January 2005)

PSU
Smthn like this one Here

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So i would rly appreciate any suggestions most for Video card an PSU.I hope there is any better Video card with p.x v 3.0 supportable of my M.B

[NyuSakur]

50 views and no suggestions/reply's >.> isnt there anyone who could suggest me what kind of video car and PSU i should chose ?!

[RicheemxX]

Well to be totally honest I personally wouldn't want to spend too much time or money upgrading this old machine. I'm never one to let old parts die but at a certain price point you are spending more than the upgrades are going to be worth. But here's food for thought:

50 views and no suggestions/reply's

You are asking about a video card upgrade, well which slots are available on the board? I don't really want to search around to find out so if you know you might post that!! It looks like an older setup some I'm guessing AGP or PCI and no PCI-e?

What is your budget? and where do you live? I don't want to waste time looking around for cards to suggest if you are only willing to spend $20 and the cheapest is $50. Nor do I want to post sites you can't shop from!

What is the goal of the upgrade, or why exactly are you spending the cash to go upgrade this particular PC? I ask because the chip you are adding it decent compared to what is in there but hardly going to be worth a high price, the same with the ram.

[ShyguyXPC]

AGP 4x: GIGABYTE GA-8PEMT4 | Emaplaadid - Specification

Agreed with Rich though, with out knowing where your from, suggesting parts might be hard, because they may be from sites outside of your country and region, and may cost more than its worth.


also, why the CPU upgrade? Why a Video card with PS 3.0?

A Geforce 6 series, next one up from what you have, has 3.0 (anything newer will have PS 3.0 or better).

as to Power Supply, we can't suggest something better, with out knowing what you have already.

"Something like this" doesn't help much.

Open the case, and look at the sticker or label on the PSU and post what it is.

[NyuSakur]

Hmm so skeptical,if it does change anything iam from Europe more like from middle Europe.Why CPU why that and this ... i want to make this crap to shine a little bit .. after am gona sell it ( better stuff in it ... easier for me to sell it )About Video card .. well if you ShyguyXPC are talking about GF 6 series ... would it mean i can use it ?
Slots available on the M.B (Well the AGP slot has an GF FX5500 but it can be replaced)

My budget i dont think it would be a problem to get new parts for PC

Ohh right about pixel shader 3.0 well i dont know if i can even get an video card with pixel s. v 3.0 on my PC just were hopping there is at least smthn better then FX5500 with p.x 2.0

Expansion Slots

• 1 x AGP 4x, support 1.5v display card only
• 3 x PCI slots supports 33MHz & PCI 2.2 compliant

Full Specification

Processor

• Socket 478 Intel ® Pentium® 4 with HT Technology

Chipset

• Intel® 82845PE MCH
• Intel® 82801DB ICH4
• Super I/O: ITE IT8712F
• Realtek 8101L LAN controller
• Realtek ALC650E AC'97 Codec
• 2Mbit flash ROM

Front Side Bus

• 533 / 400 MHz FSB

Memory

• DDR 266 / 333 (PC2100 / 2700) 184 pin (2.5v)
• 2 x DIMM slots
• 2GB

Internal I/O Connectors

• 1 x CD / AUX in
• 1 x FDD
• 1 x SPDIF out
• 1 x WOL header
• 2 x cooling fan pin header
• 2 x UDMA ATA 100/66 Bus Master IDE
• 2 x USB 2.0

Expansion Slots

• 1 x AGP 4x, support 1.5v display card only
• 3 x PCI slots supports 33MHz & PCI 2.2 compliant

Rear Panel I/O

• 1 x Game / Midi
• 1 x LPT
• 1 x RJ45 LAN
• 2 x COM
• 2 x USB 2.0
• 3 x Audio jacks (Line-in/Line-out/MIC)
• PS/2 (Keyboard/Mouse)

CPU/AGP/DIMM setting

• AGP frequency adjustable by BIOS
• CPU FSB / Multiplier
• Memory frequency adjustable by BIOS

Form Factor

• microATX
• 244mm x 220mm

H/W Monitoring

• H/W detect and report Power-in voltage, CPU voltage and Fan speed
• System health status auto-detect and report by BIOS

Bundle Software

• Ad Blocking
• Adobe® Acrobat e-Book Reader
• Adobe® Acrobat Reader
• Direct X 8.1
• GIGABYTE Windows Utility Manager
• IAA (Intel® Application Accelerator)
• Norton AntiVirus™
• Norton Internet Security™
• Norton™ Parental Control
• Norton™ Personal Firewall
• Norton™ Privacy Control

Other Features

• IDE #1-#4, SCSI, LS120, ZIP, CD-ROM and USB bootable.
• STR (Suspend-To-RAM)
• USB Keyboard or mouse wake up from S3

[RicheemxX]

after am gona sell it ( better stuff in it ... easier for me to sell it )

Just to be totally honest with you here if you are trying to build this computer up to sell it faster or for a better price unless you can get your parts at a fraction of what they are going to cost new you are wasting your time and going to be wasting money.

Just looking at a few UK sites to add the CPU you want another 1gb of DDR and an AGP card you are looking at spending over £100. For not much more than that you are almost going to be able to build a much newer system that would be faster than what you have.

[ShyguyXPC]

Just to be totally honest with you here if you are trying to build this computer up to sell it faster or for a better price unless you can get your parts at a fraction of what they are going to cost new you are wasting your time and going to be wasting money.

Just looking at a few UK sites to add the CPU you want another 1gb of DDR and an AGP card you are looking at spending over £100. For not much more than that you are almost going to be able to build a much newer system that would be faster than what you have.

Agreed.

Just sell it for what its market value is, then add that to what you Would of spent otherwise upgrading it, then get a newer system.

unless you can get the parts for dirt cheap, as rich said.




As to what I said, yes Geforce 6 Series introduced Pixel Shader 3.0 support.

There are Geforce 6 series AGP cards, I think the biggest was a 6800 GS or 6800 GT.

but these were 8x AGP cards, and May not work in the 4x slot you have. Though it should work since your slot is a 4x Slot that supports only 1.5V cards.

but yes, anything newer than a Geforce 6 Series, or ATI Radeon X1300 Series or newer, should support PS 3.0 or higher.

Pixel shader - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just a matter of finding an AGP version of the cards.

[NyuSakur]

Ty ShyguyXPC ... btw @ this one

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after am gona sell it ( better stuff in it ... easier for me to sell it )

Just to be totally honest with you here if you are trying to build this computer up to sell it faster or for a better price unless you can get your parts at a fraction of what they are going to cost new you are wasting your time and going to be wasting money.

Just looking at a few UK sites to add the CPU you want another 1gb of DDR and an AGP card you are looking at spending over £100. For not much more than that you are almost going to be able to build a much newer system that would be faster than what you have.

i didnt came here asking of it wont be cheap or smthn like that .. i know already where am gona buy the stuff i require for a low price.All i needed is the nfo witch stuff will actually work on this Specified M.B

[RicheemxX]

No offense meant just giving you the heads up man! Have fun with the build

[quickoldcar]

Almost feel bad when I donate computers similar specs.

Very few if any would buy this, even upgraded. They can spent about 300 dollars for a new machine from any local store that is better than you could ever upgrade that.

[NyuSakur]

so much woried ppl around .. all i can say thnks Ok now the other question will be about ... what could someone suggest me within DDR2 or DDR3 ? more like the best M.B ect ect full build.