Correction: If he has an AM2 socket, he MIGHT be able to use an AM2+ cpu. It will most definitely fit in the socket, but that doesn't guarantee it's supported by his motherboard.

Fellow poster is correct if you using XP you can only use 3 GB even if you have 4gb.

Vists however can use a 4 altough you would probably have a bottleneck at the processor/GPU, so it would only be a future investment. With Ram prices so cheap might be worth it on Vista.

Rememebr microsoft is abandoning Vista. They will have a new os (hopefully) in 2009.

Xipo

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Wrong.

In 32bit XP you wont be able to use 4gb.

1. Not much

2. I'll leave the price searching up to you.

Your board may be able to support a phenom but I wouldn't know. You'd have to find the cpu support list for your motherboard.

Sticking to the question... the 9800gtx is apparently better. Cheaper with a very small gain in performance over the 8800gtx, in any resolution with the same settings.

Word! Used for hard core gaming back in 02' (counter-strike mostly)

Pentium 3 733mhz

MSI 6309-Lite mobo

384mb sdr ram (256/128)

geforce 2 mx200

Sound Blacster Live! 5.1 audio

20gb hdd (Yes, 20 used to be a lot)

250watt psu

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AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton @ 2.2ghz when the weather was right

1gb pc3200 ddr (2x512)

Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe mobo

Geforce 4ti 4200 -> 4600 -> radeon 9700pro -> 5950 ultra -> 7800gs oc

2x120 gb hdd's (wd/seagate)

First generation Koolance kit

600watt ultra xfinity psu

And since when was cryengine 2 = crysis anyways. Spybot_9

Crysis uses cryengine 2.