Upgrade Proc or Video Card?

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Hello everyone. I was thinking of performing a minor upgrade to my current system (see sig). My choices are either an A64 5000+ black edition, an A64 6000+ regular or an 8800GT. Right now the most demanding game I play is FEAR. I may start playing Crysis in the near future. I thought I should grab a proc now (o/c it to 3.2) to take advantage of the price drops & do the same with a video card when the next gen cards are released. I appreciate your input.
 
you'll want at least that 6000+ if u want to upgrade CPU. But i would recommend to u to get the 8800GT FTW !!! ;)
 
Definitely go for the 8800gt. You ought to try your hand at overclocking your 4200 also, you may be able to get a decent speed increase out of it.
 
Thanks for the responses. Keep the comments coming. I am o/c'ing my proc. I'm currently at 2.6 & completely stable.
 
you will notice the biggest difference in that setup with a decent video card like the 8800GT.
 
i am in exactly the same situation with that cpu/mobo

i have decided to upgrade to an 8800gt
 
Well I ran the Crysis demo and I got a whopping 7 fps on high settings. Running on low settings gave me a whole 18 fps. Sheesh.
 
if you want to play crysis on any decent settings ull want atleast a 6400+ and an 8800gt, atleast
 
Leave task manager running whilst you game with the update speed set to low. When finished look at the graph for CPU use, if it is over 95% you are CPU limited. If not then conisider the 8800GT.

What res are you running?
 
I'm able to run crysis on medium settings at 1680x1050 at ~35fps on my x1900xt/2.6g 3800+ FWIW
 
RoBo said:
Leave task manager running whilst you game with the update speed set to low. When finished look at the graph for CPU use, if it is over 95% you are CPU limited. If not then conisider the 8800GT.

What res are you running?
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I am running 1024x768. I played the game with the task manager open & my cpu usage stayed around 55%. So I guess it's not a cpu issue?
 
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