Advice on Minor Upgrade Needed.

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Limp Gawd
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Ok, so I was thinking of doing a minor upgrade to my current system (see sig for details) and wanted to get some second opinions.

All I am looking to do is squeeze a bit more life (1-2yrs MAX) out of my current system, as I intend on doing a FULL system upgrade in 2yrs or so. That being said, I dont have alot of overclocking experiance or knowledge but am confident I could get my E6600 to 2.8-3.0ghz comfortably. The PC is mainly used for gaming, with some CAD work. My thoughts were to drop in a 4970, something like THIS.

I game at my native res of 2560x1600 and my HD2900 XT is starting to show its age. Would this upgrade be good enough to last me the time I am looking for, and still allow me to game at my native res on all the upcoming titles (COD:MW2, Diablo 3, Starcaft 2, and the like)

Any advice is appreciated!

WooD
 
lt_shiro said:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1349433

please answer these questions.
Click to expand...

Thought I answered much of those in the OP,

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Gaming, Web browsing, and some CAD
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
No More that 300 w/ tax
3) Where do you live?
Ottawa
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.
Just Video Card (but you tell me)
6) Will you be overclocking?
Some, just the CPU to try and get some more life out of it.
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
See Sig
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
This is just an upgrade to hold out for a full system rebuild in 2 years
 
Well with that budget isn't much anything besides a video card.

Suggest you wait for AMD's new card 5850, which should be $249 to $299.
 
thanks for the reply.
The whole objective of this minor upgrade is simply to get me another1-2years out of my existing machine, hence why i dont want to spend alot of money if i am going to tear down and do a complete rebuild in 2 years.
 
Again, wait for the new cards. If anything, they'll lower the current card prices. If a new card isn't feasible (due to first-kid-on-the-block pricing), go for an HD4890, which will hopefully be less than $175.
 
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