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Ramal

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I can see some experts here and i really need their advice...guys..actually.. I'm not a very big gamer, but i do love gaming...my current pc specs are core 2 duo E4500 2.2ghz processor, 2.5 GB DDR2 RAM, Geforce 210 1G/D3 and windows 7 32-bit, and i can get around 30 fps for games like resident evil 5 and remember me on med settings....so...will upgrades like 4 GB DDR2 RAM with core 2 duo E8500 3.16 GHz give me decent gaming experience on med settings and if yes, then should i go for windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit or maybe windows XP service pack 3 because of low RAM?? plz help guys....thanks...... :p
 
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The e8500 will be a good 30% faster than the e4500 because of the higher clock speed and much bigger L2 cache. 4gb ram will help too, windows 7 64 bit is best and your GT210 also needs an upgrade.

When you add it all together, you could probably get a much newer system for not much more money.
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upgrading ram will improve performance but not what you are expecting ,but your specs i must say are pretty crap a upgrade to a apu build will outperform that pc by quite alot i suggest you save up for one and what is your mobo maybe your are possible to upgrade to a c2q then you can upgrade gpu and ram
 
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Swapping that CPU for another one, even a Core 2 Quad it won't really make a difference, best you could do is to invest in extra RAM and a GTX 750 Ti video card, while it's gonna be bottlenecked by your CPU (even a C2Q will bottleneck it) the performance increase will still be noticeable.
 
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a core 2 quad won't make a difference compared to a core 2 duo you must really know your hardware(sarcasm insert here)
 
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Here's an old review of a Q6600 vs a E6850, you'll see that the extra cores doesn't make a difference since the architecture is the same, only thing that mandates in Core era is the Ghz of the CPU.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2quad-q6600_8.html#sect0

An i3 to a i5 is whole different thing, that's why I didn't use them for this explanation.

Finally, I had a Q6600 @ 3.7Ghz with my current video card, swapping to my current FX-8320 boosted me almost to doubling the FPS in every single game, certainly my old HD4850 was bottlenecked with the Q6600, a GTX 750 Ti which is far more powerful would indeed be severely bottlenecked too.
 
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those games are single to 2 thread games that is why it doesn't seem like a big difference test a game that uses all 4 cores and it lead the battle over the c2d and the 750 ti does bottleneck but not enough to cause problems only on cpu intesive games it will
 
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The e8500 will be a good 30% faster than the e4500 because of the higher clock speed and much bigger L2 cache. 4gb ram will help too, windows 7 64 bit is best and your GT210 also needs an upgrade.

When you add it all together, you could probably get a much newer system for not much more money.
 
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