Full upgrade or not?

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donjn

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I currently have the following specs:

AMD Dual Core Opteron 165 at 2.26
ASRock 939 Board
2 GB DDR400 Memory dual channel
Geforce 7900 GT

I am wondering if it worth the time and trouble to upgrade.? Here is my situation. I am worried that my 939 board is becoming very outdated.

Should I go full tilt and get a an AMD Windsor Dual Core 2.8 and get a new AM2 board and move into the DDR2800 technology? Or should I just upgrade the video card from a 7900GT to the 9600GT, which I have heard great things about, and with my current setup I should be fine?

Keep in mind, money is an issue, so Intel is out of the question. I also own an Xbox 360 and prefer to play games with higher specs on that. I use the computer only to play WoW and Guild Wars and will need it for Spore later when that comes out.

I am leaning towards just getting the video card.

Thanks
 
Considering the games you play, the 9600GT should treat you fine for at least another year.
 
I agree with getting the 9600 GT. That will hold you over until the next generation of video cards is out. Then you can get a quad core system to go with it.
 
If money is an issue, then just upgrade the video card. I upgraded from a system very similar to yours to the one that's now in my sig. Granted it's been a very nice upgrade but completely unnecessary unless you have the money to burn.
 
I don't think you will see that much of difference going from your opteron to the windsor, so just go with the 9600gt for now, and build a sexy intel system whenever the new socket and nehalem come out. That way you can make the jump to a quad core and ddr3 at the same time. Maybe you can also oc your opteron to around 2.6, and you'd be in pretty good shape, not to say that what you currently have it at now is a slouch.
 
kalrith said:
If money is an issue, then just upgrade the video card. I upgraded from a system very similar to yours to the one that's now in my sig. Granted it's been a very nice upgrade but completely unnecessary unless you have the money to burn.
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Based on the games that you play, a video card upgrade would be fine. If you really want to upgrade there really is no sense going with a AM2 at this point. A Core 2 Duo would be much better.
 
I'm still on 939 here. Was planning upgrading early this year but I think I'll wait it out until intel's new socket and quad cores are out... by then it should be worthwhile going for DDR3, and Nvidia and AMD's next gen GPUs should be out too.

I upgraded to 939 when it was almost on its way out, so I don't wanna do the same thing with 775.

Still got my 7800GTX SLI as well, so a nice new 9800GTX should tide me over for a while.
 
Why do you want to upgrade at all? If the games you mentioned are the ones you play, they haven't suddenly become more demanding now have they?
 
Yah, that 7900GT and your setup is fine for the games you just mentioned. I would just stick with this for now. Then, when the new technology comes out jump on that. Or, prices on the current Quad core cpus may drop. By then, you have more choices to decide and hopefully for you, you will have more money to invest in a whole new upgrade also.
 
Upgrade the video card - I had a similiar situation and went from a 7800GTX to an 8800GTS (original one) for a nice increase in performance. Just recently went to an 8800GTX and it gave a smaller increase in performance than the 7800GTX -> 8800GTS upgrade did.
 
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