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Should I upgrade or not?

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hynat

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I assembled a nice rig just 9 months ago with the following setup:

MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum
AMD 3500+ Winchester
GeForce 6800 GT PCI-E

If I upgraded my CPU and vid card, what kind of performance gain am I looking at?
i.e. if I got the 7800s and one of the top end Opterons? Any recommendations?

I'd be willing to upgrade some of my components if I can expect something like a 50% gain.


Thanks for your input.


 
lol, I have the same parts bought at about the same time except I have an X850XT PE.

I'm also wondering.....nah, scratch that. I WOULD upgrade my CPU and video card if I had the money. I'm 18 and have no job. So I'm pretty much screwed. But I would upgrade to an X1800 XL or XT. Not sure about CPU though...

EDIT: Do nVidia cards run better than ATI cards on nForce mobo's ?
 
Your CPU & your vid card are fine. You could upgrade your video card, though, to the 7800 gt if you really wanted to play FEAR on high settings.
 
50% gain, LOL I don't think even if you built a SLI system, with two 7800GTX 512MB would there be 50%, but it certainly would come close. I mean you are already running a 6800.

It all comes down to money and how hardcore you are, certaily running SLI with GTX cards and a X2 Dual core CPU, going to seem quite faster then what you own.

It all comes down to what you want, because with what you have there is room to upgrade. If money is tight just get a nice 7800 and a nice LCD unless your monitor is really nice already.

ALOHA
 
Dude why bother upgrading that setup?? keep it and save your money, then go out and upgrade everything.

This is the problem with upgrading one thing at a time. You might look at your video card now to upgrade that, then in a couple months you will look at your CPU and upgrade that, now you might want to add more memory....it's an ongoing cycle that leaves you with components that are always older then the others and you will be stuck in a money pit of upgrading.

Save up for the M2 when it comes out, or go with an Opteron setup in like 6 months.
 
Originally posted by: GamerExpress
Dude why bother upgrading that setup?? keep it and save your money, then go out and upgrade everything.

This is the problem with upgrading one thing at a time. You might look at your video card now to upgrade that, then in a couple months you will look at your CPU and upgrade that, now you might want to add more memory....it's an ongoing cycle that leaves you with components that are always older then the others and you will be stuck in a money pit of upgrading.

Save up for the M2 when it comes out, or go with an Opteron setup in like 6 months.
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what ^he^ said
 
have you overclocked it yet? if you do, you could get near an fx-55 on the cpu if you are lucky, and then you really wouldnt need to upgrade that. the video card is good enough, at least until well into next year. unless, you need the settings completely maxed out, which i dont need.
 
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