A PC Gaming Newbie...looking to some PC Gamers For a Bit of Help and Info

[Seven7]

Originally posted by Samurai Jack
What I have currently is a Pentium 4 at 2.0 GHz running on 512 PC800 RDRAM. I have a Geforce 4 MX 440 *grumble*, so yeah, I definately want to upgrade my graphics card. I'm looking to get a real Geforce 4, like a Geforce 4 Ti 4800 SE or an 8x AGP Geforce Ti 4600. Which ever one I get will have 128 MB. I'm not really looking to get a nutso card like an ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro or a 9800 Pro; I just don't really have the money for such a card.

One thing I'm curious about is my RAM. This is basically where the bulk of my questions lie. I've seen all sorts of "PC" RAM, like PC2100 RAM and PC2700 RAM. I have several questions. Is PC800 RAM good? I'm sure PC3200 is better, but am I pretty good with PC800 RAM? On another board, some people mentioned that Pentium 4's are very good with Rambus RDRAM. I have PC800 RDRAM; does that mean I have Rambus RDRAM, or no? Any help on this would be appreciated.

What is your motherboard make and model as I could not be quite sure if the motherboards I found that supports the PC800 that will work with the Ti4200-4800 cards. If the motherboard is able to support at least the Ti4200 or Ti4400 I would keep the everything as is and just add a new card. also unless I'm mistaken as I am half-asleep abit right now, the Ti4800 is cheaper then the Ti4600 cards. The PC800 Rambus ram I found had to be in pairs and I believe your 512mb ram is really 2x256mb.

One place you could go to if you wanted to research on the cards and the ram you have is at www.tomshardware.com

well I'm off to bed again....