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by webgrunt on December 29th, 2006

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What is the highest-performing motherboard/CPU combo with an AGP slot and support for DDR DIMMs? I have 3 GB of RAM and a great AGP video card, but the motherboard and CPU are weak so I want to upgrade those.

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  • by scubabob on December 30th, 2006

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    Unless you want to ditch the AGP and move up to PCIe, I'd forget about trying to improve both the mobo and CPU. The CPU alone, for the socket of your board, sure. AGP is a dying technology though. Eventually you're going to be swapping out the mobo AND that beloved AGP. Chances are pretty good, that by that time, you'll also have to pony out for a new socket type CPU to fit the new board. See where I'm going? Holding onto that AGP and doing your upgrade now, will cost more than later.Probably almost double.
    My advice, if the CPU is something horrible like a celeron 1.7, upgrade that alone and wait out the technology wars a bit longer. I wouldn't go overboard with say, an extreme, but keep it reasonable. Same goes if this is an AMD we're talking about. If you were t go out an get a dual core baord and CPU (yes, there are a couple that support AGP, but not many) How long before that AGP isn't up to snuff? Now you've got a whack of hardware to upgrade at big dollars to replace the big money you just spent.

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    • After doing extensive research, I came to the same conclusion. I was hoping to get a cheap speed boost to last the 6 months or year until I was ready to upgrade to an entirely new system with all new RAM, video card and etc, but there's just no practical way to go about it (the processor is an Athlon 64 2800+.) Thank you for confirming this. Time to start saving for a core 2 duo, I guess. :-)

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      by webgrunt on December 31st, 2006

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