There seems to be some ppl with some incompatibily problems: CPU-mobo-Graphics Card

[essiesse]

Hi I have a Athlon 2400 XP and a nforce2 A7N8X-X motherboard and I was wondering if it suports AGP 8x because Im thinking of buying a Radeon 9800 pro 128 mb and its important that the motherboard and processor suports the 8x AGP of the card.
Also I'm upgrading my CPU to a Athlon 3200 XP, is that a good upgrade compared to the one I have? is it compatible with my moterboard and will it be compatible with the AGP 8x of the radeon 9800 pro 128 mb?

What would be the bench scores with a Athlon 3200xp and a Radeon 9800 pro 128 mb?

Thanks

[Doppelganger]

yup, it's got 8x agp (though fsb is only 400mh, but it supports ddr400 memory)... even though i can't tell you a bench score, you can play ffxi pretty damn well w/o video lag in high rez, though you should have >=512 mb ram to increase proformance a lot..

[essiesse]

yes i have 512 mb ddr os ram you think i will be able to play with all the efects on amd high resolution with no lag?

[essiesse]

Because I have a :

AMD Athlon 2400+ XP
motherboard: asus nforce2 A7N8X-X
512 mb RAM DDR
Xelon Geforce4 FX 5600 XT 256 mb

Bench 1 : 4200

Bench2:
-Low:3250
-High:2250

I think the score is a little low for my computer. or not?
What do you think is keeping the score low?
Would the AMD XP 3200+ and the ATI Radeon 9800pro 128mb higher the score a lot?

[GSDragoon]

I hope that RAM is pc3200 (200 MHz/400 MHz DDR). If you upgrade to a 3200+, your going to be killing performace if the RAM speed isn't in sync the CPU's FSB.

[essiesse]

How do I se if my ram is 200/400 Mhz?

[GSDragoon]

It should say somewhere on the RAM itself. Any other programs will just tell you it's current speed.

[essiesse]

yes my ram is 400 Mhz so its no problem