I'm truly not concerned about the hard drive at the moment. I only set fraps to actually record at 30 FPS
edit: I was talking to one of the developer's of fraps and this is what he had to say.
I don't think the HDD matters as much as you guys think. This is me frapsing with medium game settings at 1680x1050 with a 7200 HDD. http://www.wegame.com/watch/BCclip1/ My goal is to get this at 1920x1200(I'm playing with 1:1 scaling ratio on my 24 inch monitor so i've got a inch and 1/2 thick...
I'm not a fan boy for either brand, I'll buy what ever. :P
How much will those GPU's cost? could I get an i5 and still be able to get one around my budget? or should I just upgrade my GPU?
my vista isn't 64 bit by the way, I thought I remembered seeing fraps having better performance with it..
I'm currently playing with a Q6600, 4GB RAM, and 8800GT.
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Gaming 90% of the time. The goal of this upgrade is to be able to Fraps WoW with decent settings at 1920x1200 with zero studdering.
2) What's your budget...