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The Matrox 450 is a good card, so IMHO it would be a bigger boost to increase your processor speed by 250% on a better mobo. The new card won't operate at its limits on a 400 mhz CPU and old mobo as opposed to the old card working at its limits on a new CPU and mobo.
>I'm looking at upgrading my system (mainly with an eye towards 3D games)
>and I'd like to know what would be the best move for my limited budget.
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>I have Win98 with AMD 400, 256 SDRam, Matrox 450. The upgrade would be Asus
>A7V 133 mboard, Duron 1000 and a graphics card based on the GeForce 3 GTS
>chip, however I can't buy all three components at once.
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>The question is, would I get a better performance boost (remember, 3D
>games) from the mboard/CPU combination or the graphics card?
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