Should I upgrade or Build New ?

[bear2790]

I have the following hardware and with Bulldozer on the near horizon and prices on current tech being rather low at the moment ($40 for 2x2GB 1600 DDR3 - Wow) I began thinking it might be a good time to get a better gaming machine. Currently have the following:

- Athlon II x 3 425 2.7GHz cpu (OCed 3.2GHz)
- Asrock 770/710SB mobo
- 2x2GB 1066 DDR3
- MSI N460GTX 1GB Cyclone
- Fatal1ty 550W PS
- Windows Vista (soon to be Win 7 after this coming Monday)

I have a 19" trinitron monitor, 1600x1200 res and I plan to keep it that way (no LCD panel right now) and with Crysis I get 35fps minimum @ 1600x1200 AAx2 (high settings - with a few on very high).

It's a respectable setup.

For a noticeable gaming performance increase (higher fps, adding more AA, etc), would you recommend upgrading what I have, building new or leaving things be for now ?

I'm only concerned with real world gaming performance, not benchmark stuff. Thanks

 

[sy5tem]

I have the following hardware and with Bulldozer on the near horizon and prices on current tech being rather low at the moment ($40 for 2x2GB 1600 DDR3 - Wow) I began thinking it might be a good time to get a better gaming machine. Currently have the following:

- Athlon II x 3 425 2.7GHz cpu (OCed 3.2GHz)
- Asrock 770/710SB mobo
- 2x2GB 1066 DDR3
- MSI N460GTX 1GB Cyclone
- Fatal1ty 550W PS
- Windows Vista (soon to be Win 7 after this coming Monday)

For a noticeable gaming performance increase, would you recommend upgrading what I have, building new or leaving things be for now ?

I'm only concerned with real world gaming performance, not benchmark stuff. Thanks

for you and for gaming .. you should just upgrade CPU when you see one dirty cheap for sale .. and upgrade videocard in the next 6 month? RAM speed&timing is not worth the trouble.... unless you buy 4x2 or 2x4 .. 8 gig help games a lot you really don't need upgrade now


just for gaming of couse... honestly don't think you need better atm

 

[LordJummy]

If you feel the need for better performance go with an intel based system. I wouldn't bother upgrading on that AMD platform, but some people might think otherwise.

You will notice a very large performance increase when you switch over to an intel processor. They are just simply much more powerful, and games prefer them.

I wouldn't hold your breath for bulldozer either.