what to upgrade? asking again.

[thecomputeraddict]

So my current rig in my sig is getting sluggish. I'm thinking of putting a 5000+ to replace my 3500+ and adding another gig of ram. Would this be a upgrade worth spending the money on? I just put in the 500gb seagate over the weekend so with my 160gig and 500 gig, I'm good on hard drives. any input would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[kmS]

That's kind of a vague question without knowing if you're more of a gamer, big into video encoding, whatever, so if it's the latter just go with the the faster processor and more RAM, however if you game more I'd help your 8500gt out a little more and upgrade your processor.

 

[thecomputeraddict]

That's kind of a vague question without knowing if you're more of a gamer, big into video encoding, whatever, so if it's the latter just go with the the faster processor and more RAM, however if you game more I'd help your 8500gt out a little more and upgrade your processor.

not really into gaming. If I do game, it's really just playing one of the need for speed games or portal. Then the 5000+ and more ram should be good then. I mainly do word processing, net surfing and that basic stuff.

 

[Dangman]

The upgrade is worth spending money on especially now that the price of the X2 5000+ has dropped to $66. And a 1GB of DDR2 RAM should cost around $20 or so.

 

[commissioneranthony]

You don't need to upgrade your gpu to play NFS, that's for sure. One thing stays the same regardless of what graphics card you have: microsoft word looks the same regardless of what graphics card you use.

 

[timme]

The thing you will probably notice the most would be a RAM upgrade, especially if you tend to have multiple programs running at the same time