games will not look any different, I say upgrade when you feel like it, you can get much larger monitors with lcd, and they work great. I used to hate them due to the fact that some of them suffer from "ghosting" however a low ms monitor will petty much solve that problem.
Okay First Check out the Motherboard, and see what type speeds the motherboard Supports. Then check out your processor, check the FSB speeds that it supports. Match them up and thats what your Memory speed should be. If its 533, get 2 GB of 533 ram, if its 800, then Take 533 out, and put 800 in.
You and deadfirezero have hit the nail on the head here, great advice. And for my two cents 3 gigs of ram (533) will be just as fast and effective as 2 gigs of (800hmz), the difference wouldent even be noticable.
My ATi Radeon 9800Pro 256mg GPU. Bought it 6yrs ago (it's been running in my wife's computer for the last four yrs.) Worked great then, still works great now.
I have one of those in my old pc, GREAT CARD, I forgot about that sucker
My KDS Monitor, 22", 2ms, 8000-1 contrast and I bought it 2 years ago for $355 and it still goes for $296. Has worked like a charm and looks great, has survived I dont even know how many hours of none stop gaming. I am upgrading.. soon but It was a great investment and will be used for many years to come.
that thing will not run crysis with everthing on high... at this poit I dont think anything will, If 2 4870x2's in crossfire can only manage an average of 58fps with everything full. that will do about 30fps max, but not a bad deal for a pre-built. The problem is that this is a gimick to sell a pc... its like the special edition consoles that people buy (ahem all those idiots who own a Halo 3 special-edition xbox360 system).
The 4870x2 eats over 450 watts on full load... sooooo.. a 750 at minimum I would start to look higher here though. And the GameXstream is no good???? I'm not a PSU expert fill me in here??
I have always used the OCZ gameXtreme PSU's, I have the GameXtreme 850 watt and I am getting the 4870X2 in the next few weeks and I am very confident It will handle it no problem.
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