Possible bottleneck apart from the obvious 8600gt

[baka101]

Hi all

I'm new to your forum and hope i am posting in the right section. Anyway I would like to read off my system components so you can help me to find a possible bottleneck apart from the obvious 8600gt and decide on my next possible upgrade it will be either a CREATIVE SOUND BLASTER X-FI TITANIUM FATALITY PRO or NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800GT 1GB PCIE HDCP DUAL DVI depending on outcome of this thread.

Any here is my system it is quite old

Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.66GHZ WOLFDALE - Socket 775, FSB 1333, 6MB CACHE
Kingston HYPERX DDR2 2GB PC2-6400 - DDR2 800MHZ, CL5, DIMM 240-pin
Asus P5KPL-VM - LGA 775, INTEL G31, FSB 1333, DDR2 800, PCIE X16
Seagate BARRACUDA 7200.10 160GB - SATA2, 3.5LP, 8MB, 7200RPM
Asus EN8600GT SILENT/HTDP/512MB - 512 GDDR3, PCI-E 16X

I was also going to buy a 1GB of Kingston HYPERX DDR2 PC2-6400 RAM to bring my ram up to 3GB as everyone knows Windows Vista Ultimate 32 only supports 3GB of RAM. So would I be able to get NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800GT 1GB PCIE HDCP or would that cause a bottleneck, do I have a possible bottleneck NOW apart from my 8600gt. Or should i just get a CREATIVE SOUND BLASTER X-FI TITANIUM FATALITY PRO and don't worry about the video card upgrade.

I do play alot of games like Mirrors Edge, FEAR 2 demo, Devil May Cry 4 and upcoming titles 1st Person Shooters,Street Fighter 4 etc.

Thank you any help is welcome, I must make a decision in 2 days from now as that is when I get either soundcard or graphics card.

 

[core i7 ownage]

First at all, you are posting in wrong section.
And there's no bottleneck in your system even adding 3Gb.

Very high end graphic cards like GTX 295 bottlenecks very easily.