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MCRAYGSX

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Hey everyone I just need a suggestion from my fellow Geeks. With the economy going so bad I am really scared about my parents jobs and mine as well. Ive been saving up money to built a new rig. Should I wait for a while and save that money or Buy the rig right now.

I used to upgrade my RIG evertime nvidia used to come up with new gfx card but looks like thats the thing of past for me.
 
your machine looks good, is there something you can't play or just the upgrade itch? Your machine should be able to hold you over another 6+ months.
 
You've got an excellent machine already. Surely you cannot want to upgrade because of performance problems?
 
RogueTrip said:
your machine looks good, is there something you can't play or just the upgrade itch? Your machine should be able to hold you over another 6+ months.
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So far i can play almost every game I purchased recently like Farcry 2, Crysis Warhead, Fallout 3 at 1600x1400 2xAA . Its just I have this habbit to upgrade the RIG with new hardware whenever something new comes out. For example I am really curious about Core i7 and Geforce 280 atm. But then I am not making as much money as I used to . This is the first time I havent been able to upgrade new CPU and GFX bcuz I decided to take 21k Loan from bank and buy a new Civic SI.
 
Sounds like your good to go for the most part if you don't want to use any moeny, if anything, do like the rest of us poor souls. Look for good deals, I just bought a MSI GTX260 for 184.xx shipped (keep popping up though newegg.com). You can overclock it and get it closer to GTX 280 speeds. Also could grab a couple more gigs of ram for cheap now.

But if everything is playing good, save the money and pay off the SI faster so there is less strain on the wallet.
 
MCRAYGSX said:
So far i can play almost every game I purchased recently like Farcry 2, Crysis Warhead, Fallout 3 at 1600x1400 2xAA . Its just I have this habbit to upgrade the RIG with new hardware whenever something new comes out. For example I am really curious about Core i7 and Geforce 280 atm. But then I am not making as much money as I used to . This is the first time I havent been able to upgrade new CPU and GFX bcuz I decided to take 21k Loan from bank and buy a new Civic SI.
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If i were you i'd make the jump to 1920 x 1200, that is if your max res is 1600 x 1400. Also another 4 gigs of ram wouldn't hurt either! :D But as far as CPU's and GPU's go i'd wait. If you really wanted to upgrade to a new GPU i'd at least wait to see what the new 55nm nvidia cards look like. But rumor has it that nvidia's working on new 40nm cards due out a while after the refresh.
 
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