I need an update!!

[Iker]

Hi everyone, i would like you to give me some advice about video cards.

Now i have the ATI RADEON X800 PR0 256MB, but you know, nowadays the agp bus cards are dissappearing meanwhile the pci express is going up.

I want to increase the perfomance of my pc, not only in games but also in general.

 

My PC:

AMD ATHLON K8 3400+

ASUS 8KV-X

ATI RADEON X800 PR0 256MB Agp 8x

1 Gbyte DDRAM pc3200

 

The problem....

When i run videogames (HALF-LIFE 2, DARK MESSIAH, DOOM 3, STALKER and so on....) i suffered small stops of the game that i want take away. While there is not a lot of things in the game, any explosion, lots of enemies...etc the games run quite well, but at that moments suddenly the game stops and the hard drive works....2s later everything continues, i hate it

 

I have thought about...

...buying the ATLHON 3700+ (only 300Mhz more isnt worth it , is it?)

...buying the Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS AGP 8x (that seems to me a very good idea, i read is the most powerfull video card of agp)

...buying another DIMM of 1Gbyte DDRAM (i think this is the most neccesary stuff)

 

i cant afford to buy everything, so i wondered if you could help chosing the more interesting stuff, please

 

Thanks a lot

Iker

[Boomshanka]

your setup sound good mine is

 

MSI K7n2 delta ilsr

AMD XP Barton 2800+

ATI X700

1.7 gb ddr 400 ram

80gb sata

 

the only thing i could say is how big is your power supply and is your prossesor maxing out (task manager)

go for at least a 550w psu

at least 1.5 gb ram

and check to see if your mobo is ok

dont bother with vista yet untill crysis is relesed

see how hot your running (bios) "under 60'c"

 

my next move will be a 64bit prosessor but thats a whole new pc realy

you can get 512mb fx cards like the x1950 xtx for agp but if your pc is stalling in games id check the drivers for my cards and download direx9 again i had stalling in dawn of war for ages untill i did some driver checks hope this helps dude take it easy

[danzil]

hav you tried the obvious things.like

updating your graphics card driver,

updating direct x

defragmenting your hard drive.

check your hard drive for bad sector etc.

i would be more inclined to try them first your system is fine enough to play half life 2....

as for stalker i have a powerfull dual core machine with 2gb of ram and a 512mb graphics card and mine julted around all over the place when there was heavy shooting etc,,,,,direct x update and driver update sorted this for me..

hope that helps

regards

danzil