So a friend of mine has been working at Intel and got me a discounted Q6600 to upgrade me PC with. Here is my current setup, built last year:
Core 2 Duo E6300 (1.86 Ghz)
2 GB 667 Mhz RAM
nVidia 7600 GT
19" Widescreen (1440x900)
Since I'm getting the new CPU I'm going to upgrade my video card as well to an 8800 GT (assuming I can find one) and I'm considering buying 2 more ram chips to get me to 4GB.
So I guess my question is, should I be VERY excited or just a little bit? right now I can play Oblivion, but not with high graphics settings, and Hellgate looks pretty good and runs pretty good. Am I going to see major improvements or is the step up small enough that it won't make much of a difference?
Core 2 Duo E6300 (1.86 Ghz)
2 GB 667 Mhz RAM
nVidia 7600 GT
19" Widescreen (1440x900)
Since I'm getting the new CPU I'm going to upgrade my video card as well to an 8800 GT (assuming I can find one) and I'm considering buying 2 more ram chips to get me to 4GB.
So I guess my question is, should I be VERY excited or just a little bit? right now I can play Oblivion, but not with high graphics settings, and Hellgate looks pretty good and runs pretty good. Am I going to see major improvements or is the step up small enough that it won't make much of a difference?