4890/5770 w/ PII 965 or 5850 w/40g SSD

[AlphaWolf829]

Kinda what the titles asks. I am having trouble deciding whether or not to upgrade my CPU to the the 965 BE. I currently run a Phenom 9850 BE at 2.972Ghz (205x14.5) on a Gb GA-MA790GP-DS4H with 4gb of Corsair PC8500 (2x2gb) at 1092 5-5-5-15. I have WD 80 and 600 gig hard drives. Corsair 650 PSU. I don't know if it would be worth it considering the options I am weighing at the moment. One option would be to get the 965BE and get a XFX 4890 or 5770 graphics card.... on the other not upping the CPU and getting a 5850 with the Intel 40gb SSD. I like to overclock and I do some graphics art with Photoshop. As for gaming Mass effect, Dragon Age and stuff like that...nothing crazy. The big thing here is the performance of the CPUs and the video cards. I would like to up the CPU but not sacrifice graphic power so it all depends on the vid cards relative to the boost from CPU. The SSD is what I can afford in addition to the vid and something I am looking to pick up as well. So I looking for your opinions. Thanks.

 

[happy medium]

hd4850 100$ Newegg,PII 940 155$ Newegg, 40gb ssd...
Get all three, you should be happy.

The gpu is a good gaming card.
The cpu will overclock easily past 965 speeds.
And still have money for SSD drive

 

[AlphaWolf829]

What could I expect from an HD4850. Would the upgrade of the other two offset the loss on that compared to the 4890 (obviously not in graphic power but overall usage). I mean as of right now i'm using only the onboard HD3300. How would it compare?

 

[happy medium]

The 4850 is 5x faster then the hd3300, at least.
I have a 5750 (very close to the 4850 performance) I just played Crysis Warhead on gamer settings (high) @ 1280x1024. The games you mentioned are not as hardcore, it should be just fine with them.

If you upgrade the three components I listed you will see a entire system speed up.
It will game 5x better,and be much quicker overall.

 

[AlphaWolf829]

I think I will take your advice. I appreciate it. Thanks