T4molie

Guys,

After some advice please

Have just recently been upgrading my PC from it's PII 400, single cdrom drive, IDE HDD and Creative 32MB Graphics card.

Have put in the following:

1) New M/Board with P4 2.6
2) Removed old cdrom drive and put in 2 x DVD-RW
3) Replaced old HDD with new faster HDD (non sata)
4) Upgraded graphics to ATI Radeon 9600 card
5) Beefed memory from 256MB to 1GB

Having put all the above in can anyone advise as to whether my 300W PSU is still up to the job or should I really be looking at someting with a little more juice now?

Cheers

Andy

_Meridian_

iTrader: (1)

You're at the limit, but it might work. Have you not tried yet? If it's not man enough the rig simply won't finish POSTing, but you won't do any harm. Or once booted, it'll keep shutting down for no reason. The biggest problem there is likely to be the 1gig of RAM.


M

AndyMoody

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Try www.overclockers.co.uk

Antec, Tagan, OCZ or Enermax. I've got Enermax 600w jobbie which is probably overkill for your needs, stay away from Q-Tec.

Andy.

T4molie

Cheers for the responses guys.... I've been using it at the new spec for a while and it works fine but it does seem a little slower than I expected!?!

bioforger

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That'll be the Intel P4 then only kidding, a 2.6 should be nice n nippy in Windows, games might suffer as your gfx card is slightly below average these days (is it a 9600 PRO?) Anything over than the PRO variant will make games feel slow. The motherboard might be causing a bottleneck and so might the type of RAM youre using. Also do the usual check and make sure you have the latest chipset, gfx, sound drivers installed. On my rig I found some games were lagging, and with my spec there shouldnt be any lag at all, it turned out to be the crappy onboard sound drivers. Updated those n all games fly now. I must get a proper soundcard again.

phil-mcc

Isn't a Gig of ram enough??

bioforger

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Yeh 1gig is fine, its the speed its running at that might cause a bottleneck. i.e he should be using (if the mobo supports it) at least PC3200 dimms, he maybe using PC2700.

phil-mcc

Is there any programs you can run to identify bottlenecks, sorry for the threadjack T4molie

bioforger

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Not really apart from comparing your box's benchmarks against pcs of similar spec.

Slowdowns can be down to, the mobo, cpu, ram and gfx card combinations. For gaming the cpu, gfx card and ram are the most important.