Next Upgrade?

[coga]

Hey people,

Just wondered what my next upgrade should be for my primary system, haven't upgraded in about 6 months, and wondered what you all thought?

System Specs:

EZ Cool Alpine 7103H Silver Aluminium Midi tower case
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
XFX nForce 680i LT SLI
OCZ 4GB Kit (4x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 CL 4-4-4-15
XFX 8800GT 512MB GDDR3 GPU
500gb Samsung HD
800w power supply.
Windows XP SP3

Thankx
Coga

 

[coga]

OK, Medium gamer, and heavy CAD user.

 

[antiacid]

If this is your current system, then the only upgrades that would make sense would be to get a professional video card (a quadro) or to get a bigger hdd.

That system should be allright for gaming/cad until another couple of years.

 

[coga]

Ive heard that professional gpus IE quadro cards, are slightly lacking in power for gaming? In other words would i notice the difference?

Thanks

 

[Kaldor]

If you are only going to be using a single video card then get a P45 mobo as they are cheaper and far more stable. Nvidia 680i's are not the greatest boards. The rest looks fine.