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Hi all,

Its time to upgrade for FSX but what would everyone recommend as an ideal upgrade on a limited budget in terms of getting most bang for my buck?

Specs

Asus k..... motherboard (cant remember seriel)
Athlon 64 3000 socket 754
Radeon 9800pro 128mb card
2x 512 3200 Kingston Ram
1x 250GB SATA Western Digital HD
1x 80GB Seagate HD
500W power supply

I thought maybe another gig of Ram or maybe my graphics card is slowing me down. I dont really want to replace the motherboard or processer unless I get a second hand 754pin AMD to go in my current board. I dont know if id be wasting my money in upgrading to a 3400 or 3700?

Thanks

Just to let you Im also running Vista as well.

Lets see, it looks like you have an AGP motherboard, in which case you are in trouble.... You  need to replace the MB and processer most likely for anything noticable. With that is probably ram etc, everything probably. I reckon you start saving and rebuild with a Dual core and PCI-E. I don't think that computer can be upgraded much anymore.... its nearly obsolete to say the least!

Gunny

The graphics card to go for on an agp m/board is the ATI X1950 aprox

So lets see, your running that Rig + Vista, and you want to run FSX? Forgive me while I laugh. Seriously you could throw in another gig of RAM, and then get a 7800GS, but FSX still isn't going to preform the way you want it to.

My best recomendation would be to just start over. Build a whole new rig. Its going to be a much better upgrade than trying to nickel and dime this one into preforming.

Cheers
Cameron

So lets see, your running that Rig + Vista, and you want to run FSX? Forgive me while I laugh. Seriously you could throw in another gig of RAM, and then get a 7800GS, but FSX still isn't going to preform the way you want it to.

My best recomendation would be to just start over. Build a whole new rig. Its going to be a much better upgrade than trying to nickel and dime this one into preforming.

Cheers
Cameron

Or the alternative is and im guessing socket 754 is Socker A AMD?

new mobo, another gig of ram and a new CPU, which if u where to get a AMD s939 x2 would not be to expensive (considering) but an intel would cost you more for what would be recomended on these forums. (e6600 and for GPU evga 8800GTX)

however

replacing the mobo, cpu and gpu is basicly the cost of a new rig and the basis so you would be looking at basicly a new rig, to recomend updates a MAX price would be needed.

and if u just want to upgrade a price is also needed

if u want to upgrade

on ebay u can get some socket A processor's from laptops which run cooler and are very overclockable, i know as a friend of mine has done just this and currebnty has a 2ghz barton at 2.4ghz which is a more than acceptable speed for 2days budget PC

for GPU either a radeon x1900x AGP card or the nvidia 7600 AGP card

i dnt know how many mem slots u have, if u have 2, try and get 2 match sticks of 1gb or 512 ( if 2 slots stick 512md, wht u have atm), i would recomend spending thta little bit more and getting the 2 1gb sticks if ur mobo can take it

that is what i would recomend for the upgrade, CTjoyce is recomending the top of the range (which is fine if u can afford) but for budget PC my recomendations are not that bad

but the decision is up 2 u

john