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Should I upgrade?

tigersty1e

tigersty1e

Golden Member
So looking at my current system now....

assuming I upgrade my video card to maybe a 4850 or 9800 GTX+....

and upgrading to 4 gigs of ram, do you see any worthwhile upgrades?



What motherboard chipsets are out now? last time I saw there was P35.
 
> 4850 or GTX+
That doesn't seem enough of a step up from your GT to be worth the effort.

4850 in Crossfire or a GX2 (now $400 if you shop around) would make more sense, or a 4870 for a single card. The GX2 and 4870 will work with your current board.

For 4850 crossfire a $150 P45 motherboard will currently run them bottlenecked (see TweakTown.com) but some people think this may be fixed someday, maybe. Right now to be safe you'd want a $225+ X48 chipset board.

For gaming, you'd get more value out of spending $300-400 on a 4870 or GX2 now. With the 4870 you can always spend the $225 for a motherboard upgrade later to go crossfire.

Edit: 4 GB RAM (really 3.2-3.5) will help since you're running Vista.
 
Another thing to consider is the part about buying a new motherboard when going crossfire. I've been thinking about going crossfire as well lately, but the part about buying a new motherboard capable of providing the bandwidth for crossfire doesn't seem to be worth it to me. I don't know about you but maybe a single card setup may be a better idea, like a 4870 and overclock high with that.
 
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