What should I upgrade?

py2006

Hi folks,

I have a reasonable system that a I built myself. I want to speed it up some what but I am not sure where. It is a games system but I do use it for everyday use aswell.

I am thinking of upgrading the graphics card and memory?

My current setup:

Memory
OCZ Gold XTC DDR2 PC6400 4096MB KIT,
w/two 2048MB PC6400 XTC, CL5-5-5-15

Graphics Card
EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB GDDR3, HDCP,
PCI-Express, 2xDVI-I, 320bit

Processor
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
Socket LGA775, 8MB, BOXED w/fan

Hard Drive
Samsung SpinPoint T166 500GB SATA2
16MB 7200RPM

Motherboard
ABIT IP35-E, P35, Socket-775, ATX,
SATAII, GbLAN, DDR2, PCI-Ex16

Sound Card
Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty
Pro, 64MB, EAX ADVANCED HD

Power Supply
Corsair Powersupply 620W Black, ATX/EPS,
120mm Fan, 8xSATA, SLI, WxHxL 150x86x150

Case
Antec P182 Special Edition

I would love to hear your opinions.

pogcica

Thats a nice setup you have there,

what do you mean by speed it up? You could overclock it,the Quad will get to 3GHz easy and you could get a bit more out of the GPU.

upgrade wise just get the HD4870 GPU thats the hot one at the moment,

py2006

pogcica wrote: »

Thats a nice setup you have there,

what do you mean by speed it up? You could overclock it,the Quad will get to 3GHz easy and you could get a bit more out of the GPU.

upgrade wise just get the HD4870 GPU thats the hot one at the moment,

Well I dont know anything about overclocking to be honest! My current system doesn't play Crysis for example as smoothly as I would like.

Is that the latest card? What about the GTX 280?

sunzz

Crysis is one of the rare rare games which nearly ALL gfx cards struggle with it's been said by most that it's just shabby programmiing.

With that rig tho surely even on medium setting at 1024 rez you should still be pushing at 75fps?

py2006

sunzz wrote: »

Crysis is one of the rare rare games which nearly ALL gfx cards struggle with it's been said by most that it's just shabby programmiing.

With that rig tho surely even on medium setting at 1024 rez you should still be pushing at 75fps?

Possibly, but with a decent rig and a 22" monitor I want to be able to play it at a higher res than that.

pogcica

Its generally felt that the HD4870 is the better choice over the GTX280 because of the price difference (bang for buck) there are some good threads in the Graphics forum on these cards.