What component upgrade best boosted your game

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

What was the best hardware-upgrade you did for your game and what game was it?

Me, I went from a 4870 to a 5870 and it changed my finishing places in UT3 TDM & DM. (rig2 in sig)

I went from a Yorkfield to a Bloomfield and it was a nice boost but the video card was more significant

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[Mike Gayner]

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[TecHNooB]

Vid card upgrade always trumps all Unless you have an obvious bottleneck... like 512 MB of RAM in your entire system

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

486DX -> Pentium III 450MHz.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Oh god what a Voodoo2 did for Quake.

 

[aclim]

For me it was either going from an AMD 2200+ to a C2D e6300, or going from a 8800gts to a gtx260. Going from the gtx260 to this 5850 was a nice jump, but not as significant as the previous I dont think

 

[Ika]

video card, 90% of the time.

 

[zerocool84]

Went from a 7800GS to a 9800GTX+. That was a huge upgrade. Then upgrading from a 9800GTX+ to a 5870 was another decent bump but not a huge but I can finally turn everything up in Crysis.

 

[KeypoX]

From 400W power supply to 1000W power supply . I got 2.5 X the power

 

[acheron]

CGA to SVGA

 

[Blain]

Voodoo5 5500...
It was a steal at a bit less than $250

 

[WildW]

Back when I used to be a Battlefield 2 addict there were various nice upgrades. . . 6800 Ultra to x1900 really helped, the X-Fi's 3D headphone surround sound was a huge unfair advantage over on-board audio. . . but probably most important was the monitor change from 1280x1024 to widescreen 1680x1050.

 

[pukemon]

Video card upgrades: Biggest jump would be no-3D (software renderer only) to having hardware 3D back in 1998.

 

[lxskllr]

n52 gamepad. Everything useful I needed, with a compact footprint.

 

[kalrith]

I did a full system upgrade from a P3 733 w/ a GeForce 2 video card to a P4 2.4c @ 3.0GHz w/ 6600GT. That was definitely the biggest jump I've ever made and my first attempt at overclocking.