Need Help on Upgrade

[JerryQberry]

I currently have an AMD 3500 w/ 2 gig of PC 3200 memory and 2-7800 GTs in SLI on a socket 939 board and I want to upgrade for my games. I want to know if I would be better off to upgrade my cpu to a 4800 multicore or upgrade my Nvidia sli setup to 7900 somethings. My games just seem a little slugish sometimes and I'm not sure if my video is holding me back or my cpu. Mind you now, I really don't want to go to a new board I just want to upgrade one of these two itmes.


Thanks,
Jerry

 

[Chernobyl1]

There is only one potential weak link in your hardware and that is the CPU speed, but its still quick enough for almost anything.
If its not clocked, push it a bit and you could get away without having to upgrade anything.

How recent is your install of windows?
To quickly check if it has slowed down your gaming, grab a spare hard disk, install windows etc and see if you get better performance.
If so, its worth spending time optimising your install.

 

[engiNURD]

What games/settings are you running? What are your current specs (more detail, mobo model, etc)? I agree that you shouldn't need any upgrade if all you're doing is gaming. You should be able to push that CPU enough to get better performance out of it. While a new 7900 sli setup would be a nice improvement, I dont think its worth it.