Msi 6714

[Taxation]

My brother has this motherboard, it is a fair few years old and he wants to upgrade it for moderate game usage, just css.
He manily uses the system for music and internet, so nothing overboard .

He only has a AGP X4 slot, and i was wondering what would be best suited for his needs.
I was thinking a 7600gs, plus what power supply, his is only 250W, which wont cut it tbh.
And 2 GB RAM :D is a must, isnt it?

[TheMadDutchDude]

I would recommend that you get him a 400W+ PSU, tbh with ya, but 2gig ram is just over the top, if he is only going to use it for music and internet, I would recommend that you get him 1gig at the most, 2gig is more for higher level gamers. The graphics card will be OK for his needs :)

Hope you get a good result :)

Reply if you need further help.

[TheMadDutchDude]

And also, maybe upgrade the motherboard, what sort of Socket is it?

Ill try to help you as best as I can, just let me know:)

[Taxation]

cant upgrade the mobo. just cant
i was gonna upgrade the psu
i was thinking 2gb cos i know that he will start more games, also, he leaves limewire on which is very memory hungry.

the motherboard is a msi 6714, skt 478 i think

[TheMadDutchDude]

But if it is only a AGP x4, the graphics will still be very slow, you need to upgrade it, they are not all that expensive, you can get a new Socket 478 for around £35 I believe. But seriously, 2gig ram is overkill, I leave LimeWire running most of the time whilst I'm on games (fair enough I do have a better computer than he does but anyway, I only have 1 gig ram too and I can still play all my games fine)

1gig will be enough, trust me.

[Taxation]

AGP X4 isnt slow, it doesnt go half the speed of AGP X8 before anyone says it does, it goes a tiny bit slower, maybe a few fps or so, nothing too noticable tbh.
The motherboard is fine, and upgrading the motherboard to get slightly more power down with a gfx card will be overkill, dont you think? :wink:

Ive decided to go for
400W power supply
7600gs
1GB stick RAM

[richparnell]

How many DIMM slots does your mobo have?

If you can run your memory in dual channel you should probably look at getting 2x 512mbs instead of one 1gb.

[Taxation]

only has 2 slots
good point about dual channel,but both slots are already occupied by 2*256's, and my bro doesnt want to waste em. And he is bigger than me, so what he says, goes

[JDowdall]

lol i would go for a x1650 pro agp 512mb but it shouldnt matter i put that in my sis' aldi pc with no psu upgrade so it shudnt matter

[Taxation]

you and your ati :roll: