Upgrade advice

[Khadaji]

I'm running the following:

Intel E6500 (LGA775)
4 GB RAM
eVGA NVidia 460GX (only 1)

My question is what's the best bang for my buck upgrade path?

If I upgrade my CPU/RAM/Mobo, what CPU should I go to?
Should I seriously consider getting an SLI motherboard?

Thanks in advanced!!

 

[LtGoonRush]

At this point your CPU would be a serious bottleneck if you upgraded your graphics card, so I would upgrade that first. At this moment the best option for gaming is an Intel Core i5 2500K processor, preferably along with a Z68 chipset-based motherboard and 8GB (2x4GB) of DDR3-1600. That said, the i5 2500K ("Sandy Bridge" platform) has been out for a year now, and in April Intel will replace it with the new Ivy Bridge platform, which is faster and with much lower power consumption. If you aren't desperate to make things faster now, or if you really care about overclocking, waiting to get an Ivy Bridge Core i5 3500K would be a good choice. There's no real reason to pay extra for SLI support because in most cases you're better off buying a single, faster card than adding a second card down the line.