Hi everyone Looking to upgrade my gaming rig quite a bit. I would love some advice please on what would be the parts bottle-necking my system or just what would be the best overall performance increase. I have about $800 to blow on upgrades. Current Rig: Full Tower Case by ULTRA forgot model.. XFX Nforce 680i LT Mobo Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 6GB OCZ DDR2 800mhz Memory Western Digital WDC 500gb HD (data/games/etc.) OCZ Vert 64gb SSD HD NVVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 1gb 750w power supply (just bought it, don't want to replace it. was suggested from some users who helped me out from here ) Any suggestions? P.S. If you have a suggestion of what part to upgrade, could you suggest what to upgrade it to? So I don't get compatability issues or anything like that >_< Thanks!
go for phenom II x3 720be if you don't want to spend too much on cpu but i'd prefer a x4 if i were you. it will clearly fck your performance if u use a ssd and a standard hdd together check for a single ssd like a 154gb or more one when we come for graphics card, if u wait a lil bit, you will be able to buy it much cheaper because radeon 5xxx and geforce gt3xx series are on their way and, and, and, one of the most important parts, no ddr2 sticks are useful from now on unless they are 1200mhz i don't have time to check the prices now but i'll give u more details if u tell where u plan to buy them
wow thanks for the info! i plan to buy from tigerdirect.com or newegg.com why would having a ssd + reg hd mess up my performance? I put all the games on the hd and ssd is just the OS. Heard it was always better to do that from all the stuff I had read before..
well you can use a fast os of course on a ssd, but when u start playing games it would make a clearly noticeable drop in performance because they are being executed from the hdd, that's why i suggest u to buy a big ssd drive for perfection to be honest i don't use more than 100gb in my own pc and laptop so no need to worry about if that will be enough for u i also play games but uninstall them after i complete the scenarios or get bored of them except the ones i play multiplayer via internet like battlefield considering the approximate size of a game is 6gb and the windows 7's space requirement is something like 5,5gb, you can have more than 15 games installed, many mp3 or video files stored in your pc and more with a big single ssd drive which will throttle the triple or quad core cpu of your choice :good:
thanks! also curious if you think my CPU is holding back my GPU in performance? It's only @ stock 2.4ghz..
i also use the same cpu and thinking of changing with amd because there's no real quad core cpu in intel's product series except the new i5/i7 products these q6600, q9000 etc. is using the hyper threading technology of intel in reality but all of us thought it is a real quad core and bought it of course amd's new phenom II series cpu's have a good performance sorry that i didn't read your post completely at first and replied quickly, now that i know that u got this system i think u should only change the cpu and mobo but it depends on u whether to use this ram modules or change them with ddr3 by getting the new mobo as socket am3 otherwise you have to buy something with an am2+ but it won't be a good idea as it will no longer support the upcoming low cas latency ddr3 sticks
well ive been thinking of getting a core i5 or i7 processor with a x58 mobo with tri-channel ddr3 sticks. im using vista 64 bit so i can support that stuff. i know if i do that it would def be a major performance upgrade... or do you think an upgrade to a q9000 series would be sufficient to top out the performance of my card.
your first idea is very good indeed but i thought it would be expensive to go for i7/i5, a new mobo, new ddr3 ram sticks and new ssd drive so it would be perfect if you can make it q9000 has no difference in real if we consider the cpu architecture, still dual core using ht and showing itself as quad, but not better than even i5 check for amd phenom II x4 955 Black edition cpu & its equipments' cost and then compare it with i7 940 cpu & its equipments' cost don't forget that gaming performance of these 2 cpu's are really close so no need to be an intel fan if it's expensive :good: an example for it Charts, benchmarks 2009 Desktop CPU Charts, GTA IV 1.0.3
ya def just the benchmarks i read showed the i7 usually beating amds marginally do you know anything about the i5? would that be a worthy jump from my q6600 as well? (as an example, ill go read more about the amd phenoms II's)
well as a gamer u don't have to think about the encoding performances etc too much, as i said, i'm also planning to go for a phenom upgrade and i'm using the desktop pc for professional purposes like programming, simulating a hardware and at my spare times at home playing with it so i think it's really enough for me desktop cpus are close to each other if we consider the same level cpus of amd and intel but of course when we come to mobility arena you're right, intel beats amd
