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tommy:

I've been recently into Project64 emu and some games are a bit slow , but not due to the video card but the processor.

I havent had a problem with Doom3 or Painkiller but OO7 for PJ64 is slow(thats very odd to me)so hopefully all things in general will be a bit faster. Any PC game out now and alittle into the future shouldn'tneed more then my system specs with the new processor.

Maybe i should look into a mobo because my video card is the best pci card i can use on my board and you can never have a enough power from a graphics card.

Chris:

Can you put another MB in there?  Sometimes DELL cases are slighly nonstandard and dislike non-DELL motherboards...

NoOne=NBA=:


--- Quote from: Chris on June 03, 2005, 11:25:15 pm ---Can you put another MB in there?  Sometimes DELL cases are slighly nonstandard and dislike non-DELL motherboards...

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I second that.

I had two at work that we bought really nice, new CD-R drives for, and I had to take one home, rip the old 8x out of my wife's computer, and bring it into work because the MOBO wouldn't recognize anything faster than a 12x for some reason, on either of them.

Also, there is RAM to consider.
If you upgrade the MOBO, your old RAM probably won't work.
The vid card should work to get you by, but won't be optimal on a new MOBO.

Navmaxlp:

I play MMORPGs a lot and in those, you can NEVER have too much ram. As long as you have a somewhat decent ie 1.3ghz proc, when playing these games, ram is better than a proc upgrade. Can't really go wrong with a cpu upgrade though. Just my opinion though. Just trying to show some other options.

jdsony:

The upgrade to a P4 2.2 would be a good upgrade if you are not going to be able to afford a larger upgrade for a while. To put it into perspective...a 1.7ghz P4 is faster than a 2.6ghz Celeron in almost all cases. Celeron's are quite hampered and a 2.2ghz P4 would be a great boost for emulation. The video card does play a part in N64 emulation but the processor is the biggest factor for sure and the upgrade will benefit you. I don't remember how Goldeneye ran on my Athlon XP 2000+ but most games ran at a great speed. Perfect Dark was a little slow so Goldeneye might have been as well but those are the only two that would have a speed problem if any did. Mame would probably benefit a little but most games that don't run fullspeed on a 1.7ghz Celeron also won't run full speed on faster CPU's.

1776x1000 4xAA 16xAniso N64 gaming is where it's at though =)

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