Help with upgrade

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Triz08

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If i wanted to add more performance for gaming, which upgrade do you think would benefit the most? (Added to system in sig)

- 2 gig more of OCZ Platinum to make 4 gig total (~$230)

- 1 more xfx 7800gt for sli (~$350)

- Upgrade cpu to amd64 4400+ x2 (~$400 after selling my 3500+)


Right now im leaning towards sli once the prices drop a bit more. Let me know what you guys think.
 
Wow is your gaming that bad you need to upgrade? I wouldn't upgrade until it is absolutely necessary. Maybe the X2 4400 but that would be all I would do.
 
^ Agreed. Are you having problems with it? Becuase normally, that should play any game you throw at it without a hicup. I wouldn't spend the money on an irrelevant upgrade.
 
well alot of these new games coming out are alot more demanding than all the games being used now for benchmarking and testing. BF2, farcry, hl2, doom 3, splinter cell, are some of the ones ive only been seeing tested on the 7800 series. But when these fear, quake 4, aoe3, cod2, are used for benchmarking, you will see that the fps will greatly drop when using higher resolutions with extra eye candy like i do. Trying to play the fear demo at 1600x1200 max settings i get around average 23fps. Im sure that quake 4, cod2, and aoe3 will be the same way.
 
at 2 gigs of ram already, that's pretty much out...
at 400 bucks after selling a processor, that's out... wait a while on that one.
if it's just gaming you're after, you probably should go with the SLI setup.

Do you do other things semi seriously aside from gaming? if so, then an X2 would be nice instead.
 
I haven't read about any games yet that take advantage of a dual core proc.
2 gigs of RAM is more than enuff for existing games. More than that would be more useful in video or image editing.

I vote for the SLI. 2 7800's will make me jealous.
 
My vote goes for the SLI addition.

Your proc is still pretty good at this point...no need to upgrade.

And 2GB Ram is the sweet spot for gamin these days.
 
Besides gaming, i just do alot of reading and research, nothing else that requires alot of cpu tasking. But basically this machine is my xbox 360, ps3, and nintendo revolution all in one. :p Im not a fan of console games, so im all about pc gaming. Im going to wait on the sli until i see some benchmarks on the new games coming out. And hopefully by then the prices for the 7800s will drop a bit.

You guys happen to know anything that AMD is currently planning for the future? Are they keeping the dual core technology or do they have something else in stock for us?
 
Next big thing from AMD will be another FX and the M2 socket. That wont be till late Q1 next year tho, so no worries.

If you like to game a lot on the PC you should check out my site sometime as I am also a strictly pc gamer and have some friends who are as well.
 
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