Hello All,
I spent a truck load of money (about $3K) on my current PC a few years ago and im starting to see some slow down on high end games like GTA4 and Empire Total War and Fallout 3 just barely cutting the mustard (no clue what that means).
Anywho-ter-doo-dol I think its time for an upgrade and I wanted to ask you fine people if what I currently have can be salvaged and upgraded or if I can find out where the bottleneck in my system is and what I can do to get up on the new games hopefully without a full rebuild and hopefully as cheaply as possible. I used to be a bleeding edge enthusiast but I realized after 3000 dollars that nothing lasts as long as you expect.
On to my parts list:
Antec Nine Hundred Gaming Case
nForce 680i SLi Motherboard
Intel Core2 Duo Extreme X6800 2.94ghz Socket 775 (scythe cooler)
EVGA Geforce 8800 GTX 768mb PCIe (used to use 2 but had sound issues in SLI so sold one of them)
Sound Blaster Fatality Xtreme Gamer Sound Card
Corsair Dominator (4 sticks 1 Gig each) PC28500 DDR2
Wester Digital Raptor 150gig 10k rpm & 2 75gig
PC Power Silencer 750w Quad Power Supply
Dell 21inch LCD (runs 1600x1200 in natural resolution) - Any suggestions for a nice inexpensive upgrade?
I started thinking about upgrading just my graphics card to see if I can stretch the use out of my system as it still runs extremely well on current games that are not using cutting edge graphics and still runs all brand new games on low to medium settings with around 20fps, but I fear having to go to a lower resolution soon which will pretty much make my gaming experience s-u-c-k.
Will a new graphics card do the trick or is there something else in my system causing the new games to not run so well?
Thanks for the help ahead of time
I spent a truck load of money (about $3K) on my current PC a few years ago and im starting to see some slow down on high end games like GTA4 and Empire Total War and Fallout 3 just barely cutting the mustard (no clue what that means).
Anywho-ter-doo-dol I think its time for an upgrade and I wanted to ask you fine people if what I currently have can be salvaged and upgraded or if I can find out where the bottleneck in my system is and what I can do to get up on the new games hopefully without a full rebuild and hopefully as cheaply as possible. I used to be a bleeding edge enthusiast but I realized after 3000 dollars that nothing lasts as long as you expect.
On to my parts list:
Antec Nine Hundred Gaming Case
nForce 680i SLi Motherboard
Intel Core2 Duo Extreme X6800 2.94ghz Socket 775 (scythe cooler)
EVGA Geforce 8800 GTX 768mb PCIe (used to use 2 but had sound issues in SLI so sold one of them)
Sound Blaster Fatality Xtreme Gamer Sound Card
Corsair Dominator (4 sticks 1 Gig each) PC28500 DDR2
Wester Digital Raptor 150gig 10k rpm & 2 75gig
PC Power Silencer 750w Quad Power Supply
Dell 21inch LCD (runs 1600x1200 in natural resolution) - Any suggestions for a nice inexpensive upgrade?
I started thinking about upgrading just my graphics card to see if I can stretch the use out of my system as it still runs extremely well on current games that are not using cutting edge graphics and still runs all brand new games on low to medium settings with around 20fps, but I fear having to go to a lower resolution soon which will pretty much make my gaming experience s-u-c-k.
Will a new graphics card do the trick or is there something else in my system causing the new games to not run so well?
Thanks for the help ahead of time