Hi there,
Almost 4 years ago I bought my current PC, high-end system at the time. And I'm still quite surprised with the power it has, I can play C&C at high and Supreme Commander and World in Conflict on medium. But the graphic card and my memory certainly need an upgrade.
The thing is I don't know how much a bottleneck my CPU / mobo will be when I add, let's say, another gig of ram and a radeon 4850. I'm not expecting to run all the latest games on very high settings but I'd like a nice fluid gameplay on medium/high.
Current setup:
PSU: Antec 480W
MOBO: Intel D925XCV 800 FSB
CPU: PIV 3,2 Ghz 800 FSB
RAM: 1024 MB PC4300
HD: Raptor 74Gig
GPU: Radeon X800XT 256 MB DDR3
So do I make a small upgrade now (ram, gpu) and get another year or so out of this build, or would it be better to build a new system to get a greater performance and overall experience. When browsing trough a game magazine recently all recommended / preferred system requirements were still below or equaled my machine so I know it won't last that long anymore.
Thanks!
Almost 4 years ago I bought my current PC, high-end system at the time. And I'm still quite surprised with the power it has, I can play C&C at high and Supreme Commander and World in Conflict on medium. But the graphic card and my memory certainly need an upgrade.
The thing is I don't know how much a bottleneck my CPU / mobo will be when I add, let's say, another gig of ram and a radeon 4850. I'm not expecting to run all the latest games on very high settings but I'd like a nice fluid gameplay on medium/high.
Current setup:
PSU: Antec 480W
MOBO: Intel D925XCV 800 FSB
CPU: PIV 3,2 Ghz 800 FSB
RAM: 1024 MB PC4300
HD: Raptor 74Gig
GPU: Radeon X800XT 256 MB DDR3
So do I make a small upgrade now (ram, gpu) and get another year or so out of this build, or would it be better to build a new system to get a greater performance and overall experience. When browsing trough a game magazine recently all recommended / preferred system requirements were still below or equaled my machine so I know it won't last that long anymore.
Thanks!