Upgrade options: vid card or cpu

[tydalwave]

Asking the community on this one...

I would like to upgrade to a Q9650 from a Q6600 ( stable 24/7 @ 3.6 1.41 vcore ) or...

2 3870's in Crossfire ( 840core/1186mem ) to ATI vid card was thinking 4890 ( later on get a second one ) 18700's 3DMark06

have a Rampage Formula so wanna stick ATI for crossfire later on

opinions? what you would do? Thanks so much in advance, im really torn here.

 

[foolycooly]

In terms of gaming performance? I would go with the 4890. Unless I'm missing something, you never specified what kind of performance increase you are looking for.

 

[tydalwave]

Well i was thinking gaming performance. I want to extend the life of my rampage formula 775 so thinking that going with the q9650 now and waiting till a new vid card came out would yeild me better frame rates now but im not sure. its very hard to find overclocked vs overclocked reviews out there.

 

[Dahak]

I concur.The 4890 is a power house card,and 2 of them is just nasty.Enjoy the new card,forget the cpu for now as you are doing great with it at 3.6 stable.Get some good after market cooling and squeeze a couple hundered more MHZ out of it.Enjoy the new video card.Goodluck.

Dahak

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