First post, by AAVVIronAlex
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Hello,
I have a Dell Dimension XPS T500 with a Pentium III Xeon 500MHz (Intel Slot 2) laying around. I am thinking of transforming it into my antique LAN Tournament battlestation. The GPU is an AGP 2x ATi Rage Pro Turbo, it has 384MBs of RAM.
The CPU upgrade is quite simple, as long as it does not have a 100MHz FSB it should be, according to the user manual at least.
I am wondering what upgrades I can make to the system which will still be compatible with the motherboard and will be cheap (things like the 3dfx Voodoo cards on eBay cost a fortune).
My main concern is the fact that AGP 2x (version 1.0) does not support a lot of options, although I have learnt that there are PCI (of which I have 2-3 slots free of) versions of cards like GT 610 and the 520, which are also quite expensive.
There are many options, but they usually contradict themselves.
My goal with the system is to run Quake III Arena at 60+ FPS and if possible run UT2004 too.
My OS would be Windows 2000.
Thank you for reading. If there are any questions please tell me.