Opinions on upgrade path

[tarsis]

Hey guys --

So, Im looking to do a $400 upgrade to my rig - Im playing alot of oblivion lately @ 1680x1050 res, and looking for a decent performance increase, as well as something to help me out when UT2007 is released. My current rig:

3500+ @ 2.33 ghz
1gb ram
leadtek 7800gtx

My main question is - which of these would be the most beneficial to upgrade if im looking to spend no more than say... $400-450. New cpu? a 2 gig set of ram? another 7800gtx for sli? (leaning towards this one myself, but not sure). If there are any good 2 gig sets of ram for 200 or less, i might be willing to get that in conjunction with one of the other two.

Again, the immediate concern is for performance in Oblivion.

 

[discochan]

They all would help but I think the extra 7800 gtx would help the most

 

[Bleedblue12345]

2 gigs of ram for sure, then either a new vid card or processor

 

[PWMK2]

Your processor will be fine for quite a while IMO. Personally, I'd go for the extra 7800GTX.