Post by markfromindy on Jun 5, 2011 9:03:56 GMT -5
I'm thinking of upgrading my pc. I'll say that right now I've had no problems playing anything. The games I play a lot of ( Fallout3, Fear 2 ) I have no issues with.
And I just started playing through Oblivion again ( this time with Obscuro's and Francesco's awesome mods).
I am looking more towards Elder Scrolls Skyrim coming out later as well as a few other.And I am thinking maybe get a little bit higher performance out of the games I have now.
Anyway, this is what I'm packing:
EVGA 123-YW-E175-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI FTW ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 Wolfdale 2.66GHz 3MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Dual-Core Processor
ZALMAN CNPS9500 AT 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink
4Gigs Gskill DDr2 ram
Geforce GTX 260 graphics card with 896 megs ram
Obviously the big thing I'm looking to upgrade is the cpu, then the graphics card, maybe bump up the ran to 8 gigs.
I'm tempted to just overhaul the motherboard/cpu and move up to an I5 cpu, but I am trying to stay within a 400.00 budget for both the cpu and graphics card upgrade, or close to that anyway.
If I stay with my motherboard there's still a little upgrade path from my current cpu. I was looking at both the Intel dual core 8400 and the quad core version of that.I've read that the 8400 overclocks pretty well up to 3.4 ( I didn't do my research very well when I bought the 7300. I couldn't get it to overclock well at all. I finally gave up and just left it at the stock speed).
I'm still not sure if a quad core cpu really has much effect on gaming, so am a bit torn on which cpu would be best, and they are both about the same price on NewEgg.
I know a lot of people might say just go whole hog and get the Q9550 to get the most out of the 775s, but my reasoning is if I'm going to spend 300 bucks on a cpu then I might as well just go with the newer
1366 socket cpus.
I'm just not quite ready/willing to totally overhaul my system just yet.
Aside from upgrading my cpu, am also looking to get a newer graphics card ( though like I said, right now it runs everything I throw at it.
I still prefer Nvidia cards over ATI, just because some of my older games, especially NWN had issues with ATIs drivers.
Am thinking a good upgrade path for a graphics card might be to go with a GTX 460. You can find those around the $200 range. I know for another hundred bucks or so I could go with a 560T1, but again, am trying to stay within a $400 or so budget.
Any recommendations?
And I just started playing through Oblivion again ( this time with Obscuro's and Francesco's awesome mods).
I am looking more towards Elder Scrolls Skyrim coming out later as well as a few other.And I am thinking maybe get a little bit higher performance out of the games I have now.
Anyway, this is what I'm packing:
EVGA 123-YW-E175-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI FTW ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 Wolfdale 2.66GHz 3MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Dual-Core Processor
ZALMAN CNPS9500 AT 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink
4Gigs Gskill DDr2 ram
Geforce GTX 260 graphics card with 896 megs ram
Obviously the big thing I'm looking to upgrade is the cpu, then the graphics card, maybe bump up the ran to 8 gigs.
I'm tempted to just overhaul the motherboard/cpu and move up to an I5 cpu, but I am trying to stay within a 400.00 budget for both the cpu and graphics card upgrade, or close to that anyway.
If I stay with my motherboard there's still a little upgrade path from my current cpu. I was looking at both the Intel dual core 8400 and the quad core version of that.I've read that the 8400 overclocks pretty well up to 3.4 ( I didn't do my research very well when I bought the 7300. I couldn't get it to overclock well at all. I finally gave up and just left it at the stock speed).
I'm still not sure if a quad core cpu really has much effect on gaming, so am a bit torn on which cpu would be best, and they are both about the same price on NewEgg.
I know a lot of people might say just go whole hog and get the Q9550 to get the most out of the 775s, but my reasoning is if I'm going to spend 300 bucks on a cpu then I might as well just go with the newer
1366 socket cpus.
I'm just not quite ready/willing to totally overhaul my system just yet.
Aside from upgrading my cpu, am also looking to get a newer graphics card ( though like I said, right now it runs everything I throw at it.
I still prefer Nvidia cards over ATI, just because some of my older games, especially NWN had issues with ATIs drivers.
Am thinking a good upgrade path for a graphics card might be to go with a GTX 460. You can find those around the $200 range. I know for another hundred bucks or so I could go with a 560T1, but again, am trying to stay within a $400 or so budget.
Any recommendations?
