Can Your Old Athlon 64 Still Game?

[DREDIOCK]

Good article by the same title over at Toms Hardware

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/athlon-gaming-benchmark,2054.html

[Delirium]

I'm exactly where that article is talking about.

I have a dual core FX-60 socket 939 and I'm not sure if I want to get a new machine wait a year and just get a video card. I have a 7800 right now with 2 gigs of really bad ram. Do I want to spend the $200 and wait or should I just buy a new system?

Still not sure yet...

[DREDIOCK]

If you have a PCI express the choice is easy.
You get the video card and transplant it into the new system.

Myself personally.
With an old system I wouldnt get too much I couldnt migrate to a new build unless I was able to get it really cheap.
In which case. g for it.
Even those older systems work just fine for doing websurfing, accounting. And small business apps.

One of the machines I have around here still working is an old socket A that my wife and daughter use to surf the web.
So long as you keep the processes down. It works just dandy for their uses.

[1701E]

Using an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ with 2GB ram and a GeForce 7100 my PC held up rather well.  Played AH on close to max settings with 45 FR.
Never underestimate an old PC part.

[Denholm]

AMD Athlon 64 1500+ 1.33 GHz. Well, it works.

[Chalenge]

Plug in new processor and RAM and Im upgraded.

[Bronk]

Hell.. 4200 x2, 6600 gt, 1 gig of ram. Plays AH just fine. I'm looking at getting 2 more gigs of ram, new psu and vid card upgrade. Figure I'll be able to play AH well into the future.

[eagl]

My A64 could still game, but I was on an AGP mobo.  The whole system was slightly unstable and I decided to quit fiddling with it and go for new mobo/cpu/ram/video.  I am very glad I did, even though I could have cut the upgrade price in half by just going with an older pci-e socket 939 mobo and the vid card.

[Chalenge]

I think its always a good idea to buy something you know you can upgrade later. I bought into PCIe late in the game (with respect to its debut) but shortly after I did PCIe 2.0 came out. So I moved the AMD machine to the media center and bought an Intel system (somehow missing PCIe 2.0 again) and then upgraded six months later. Now we have i7 coming along but with no real reason to upgrade to it that I can see. Still... in six months I will probably have another system sitting where this one is but AHII will play exactly the same having more then enough computer to max it out already.

[RTHolmes]

<-- Athlon 64 2.2GHz, 1GB, GF6600. 50-60fps @1280x1024, 2xFSAA, better than default AH settings

I "upgraded" to this mobo, cpu, gpu 2yrs ago for about £150. case, psu, drives, ram, etc at least 4yrs old. looks like a POS now, sounds as bad and the drives are on the way out soon, so I'm going to grab a spare new box from work (HP E8200 3GHz, 2GB) so all I have to do is buy a 9800GT and I'm set

I just cant believe how much some people spend building a box just to run AH. Nice if you've $$ to throw around but not really necessary.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

[Rebel]

<< Athlon 64 X2 4200+ , 2 GB's PC6400 RAM, Radeon HD 4850.

This rig smokes any game I ask it to, at whatever quality settings I choose.  It's a friggin screamer even though the proc is only $50 these days 

What's better is my mobo is just fine- I can accept up to the 6000+ x2 rigs- can't wait for those buggers to start goin at the same $50.  2 weeks of savin and it's MINE.