Been a long time since I've posted here. I built my current main rig in Dec 2007 and at the time, I dropped quite a bit of money on it. This proved to be worth it since I'm still using it for general computing and pretty heavy gaming. My question is, it's almost been 4 years now, and I feel like I should do a major upgrade, even though I can't seem to really justify it. My current rig still does everything I want, it's just that I've realized I can upgrade my cpu/ram/mobo for a couple hundred bucks and have a i5 2500k based setup. Here are my current specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 OC'd @ 3.6GHz (450Mhz FSB)
DFI LP-UT-P35 T2R Motherboard
4GB (2x2GB) OCZ Platinum DDR2 800 OC'd @ 900
EVGA GTX 570 Vid Card (Upgraded recently)
So again, it's old but it still plays any game I throw at it, albeit not at high/ultra settings anymore. I really think that the CPU and RAM are now what's bottlenecking me in that regard. I noticed this recently with Skyrim and BF3. My gaming performance in those games lags behind a couple friends' systems that have newer Core i5/i7's but with similar vid cards to mine. Also, DDR2 is dead, and I'm stuck at 4gb.
Should I spend the couple hundred now and get a Sandy Bridge setup, or wait a little longer until something better comes down the pipe?
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 OC'd @ 3.6GHz (450Mhz FSB)
DFI LP-UT-P35 T2R Motherboard
4GB (2x2GB) OCZ Platinum DDR2 800 OC'd @ 900
EVGA GTX 570 Vid Card (Upgraded recently)
So again, it's old but it still plays any game I throw at it, albeit not at high/ultra settings anymore. I really think that the CPU and RAM are now what's bottlenecking me in that regard. I noticed this recently with Skyrim and BF3. My gaming performance in those games lags behind a couple friends' systems that have newer Core i5/i7's but with similar vid cards to mine. Also, DDR2 is dead, and I'm stuck at 4gb.
Should I spend the couple hundred now and get a Sandy Bridge setup, or wait a little longer until something better comes down the pipe?