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| blodflekk wrote: | | I was really wanting the i7, but something with more power, so I figured running a higher clocked core 2 quad would be better for now, better than my core 2 duo that I have at the moment. I could incorporate my WD 1TB 7200rpm into it as I only bought it about 2 weeks ago, I am just really unhappy with my system at the moment and instead of upgrading parts (as I'm almost at my number of H/W changes for windows) Just wanted to start off fresh and different with something really powerful but cheap at the same time - my DREAM machine will cost $5,500 unfortunately (I am in New Zealand so prices are higher) So this was my alternative. |
A video card upgrade would give your current system a nice boost in performance. The GTX260 you listed above or one of the alternatives mentioned would be sufficient to give you a very large boost in gaming performance. Might be enough to keep you from upgrading for another 6 months anyway. You could buy the planned card now and hold off on everything else, put the card in your current system and if it doesn't work for you, upgrade the rest.
You're not going to see a big increase in gaming performance going from a 3.0Ghz dual core to a 3.0Ghz quad core. There are some games that can use the quad, but not very many. In the future they will all take advantage of it though. New builds should absolutely take advantage of the future uprade potential of the Core i7 and AMD X4's.
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