[fastvfr]

Hello again!

RaiderRodney, your X800 card is making up for what your MOBO is trying to bottleneck.

I recently upgraded a client's PC on a board w/2.0P4 and a 400MHz FSB, using a 4X AGP slot.

We agreed that the PSU and the graphics cards were a great place to begin the upgrade, so they ordered a Radeon 9800XT bad*** card. Good, but not as hot as yours.

Their 3DMark03 scores went from around 1,000 to 15,000 instantly. And while a game like DIII will still choke due to the CPU/FSB restriction, at least the thing will look nice!

It would just be choppier than it will be after they get the 3.2EE and P4C800-E Deluxe in there with PC3500 RAM...

Glad yours is doing okay. Some folks don't notice much of a boost from putting a $400 card in a $300 system, but then there are the occasional surprises!

Best regards,

FastVFR

[sgtlmj]

Originally posted by MasterofPuppets
I am finding that I am rapidly growing bored of Doom 3 though, some of the textures are flat and boring and after the creepy effect wears off, it gets rather repetetive. Walk, walk, shoot, shoot, find PDA, open door, repeat.

I can't wait for HL2 myself

I agree completely. It's a great game for showing off what your computer can do, but the storyline is old (that's because it's a sequel of a very old game) and it's repetative. Oops, locked door... must be a PDA around here somewhere...ooo there it is, now I have to listen to 5 minutes of nothing to get a code. Bah!

HL2 is already more than a year behind after their little "leaked code" thing. I think they just found too many bugs and had to go back to the drawing board.