Upgrade yea or nay

[macabre215]

So I am finally going to buy a HD 4870, but there is something I am concerned about. Would I want to upgrade my cpu to avoid a bottleneck and if I do which should I get? I can buy either the 5400+ BE or a 7750 Kuma both of which are around 60 bucks. I will be using this set up for another four to five months until I buy another card to run crossfire in the future when I upgrade to an LGA 775 motherboard. A friend of mine is going to sell me his E8400+X48 mobo.

this is what I have now

AM2 3800+ OC 2.7ghz
Abit KN9-SLI AM2 mobo
evga 7950GT
2gb g.skll ddr2 800

 

[Kaldor]

Probably be just fine. Realistically the E8400, unless overclocked, isnt THAT much faster than the AMD chip you have. Instead of buying the E8400+X48 you may be cheaper and better off to buy a Phenom 2 quad and just update the CPU on your existing system.

 

[AVADirect_Joe]

I agree with Kaldor, that way you can upgrade the RAM to 4GB as well. You will see a nice performance increase from upgrading the CPU and RAM.


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Joseph Mundy
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