Should I upgrade from 6600GT to X1950pro? or change CPU?

Hello,

My computer specs is

AMD Althon 64 3000+ 1.8ghz
1GB DDR400 ram
Nvidia 6600GT 128mb

I am planning to upgrade either the CPU or graphic card.

It seems that X1950pro is around $150-170. Should I upgrade my graphic card or I should focus on upgrading my CPU to AMD althon 64 X2 4200-4400?

I tried supreme commander on my computer using Vista and its lagging as hell, I have to put everything to low to get the game running smooth.

Which upgrade should I do to get very frame rate? AMD althon 64 x4200 or x1950pro? I don't have budget to get both, so please don't ask me to buy both.

Thanks

Hi there, I agree with Cottonball the 1950pro would be a much better use of your money. But also consider how little you can get an oem socket 939 chip can cost, you might find wou could get both, an AMD 3700+ would be a big jump up not just for the clockspeed but more importantly for the increase in cache.
Best of luck

CPUs have little effect on gaming performance nowadays. The video card upgrade is the only way to go if you want better gaming performance.

A 6600GT will hold it back even more....

That doesn't change the fact that you claim a CPU upgrade will give no performance upgrade at all. SC doesn't have the most amazing graphics I have ever seen, but the number of units that can end up in a game is huge. With that many units you get a lot of AI being processed, and the CPU will be a lot more vital. For a lot of people they cant play a long game with a single core cpu because as more and mroe things are built the game becomes more and more unplayable. I can't agree with you, I think the 3000 would hold him back more. My brother has a laptop with a mobility 1600 in it and a core duo 2.17 cpu, and he can play it perfectly fine.

sorry if you took offense, but I wasn't replying to you.

I'd go with a dual-core processor. I can run SC fine on my computer...granted, the eye candy isn't cranked all the way up, but it's at a decent level, and it looks good.

I use Vista as windows.

C & C 3 Tiberium wars runs at Medium-high Very smoothly. The object details is HIGH, I think only those water effect and terrain is medium. The graphic is very pretty too.

I am guessing the Supreme commander use CPU more and doesn't require a very good graphic card. Just like Final Fantasy XI online, which mostly depend on CPU only, EXTREME good graphic card only improve a little bit of frame rate.

I guess I will go for Graphic cards since most of the games make use of graphic card instead of CPU. I think you guys agree on that too, except Final Fantasy XI and supreme commander which require CPU more and depend less on graphic card.