I have owned my current rig for a few years and I have some money to spend on a small upgrade and I was wondering if now would be a good time to do it? I am having a difficult time finding some performance ratings of the Intel E6600 vs Phenom ii x2 550 BE.
Current rig:
Core 2 Duo E6600 (OC to 3.1GHz) (upgrade)
4GB Corsair Dominator PC1066 DDR2 (upgrade)
DFI Lanparty 975X/G MB (upgrade)
EVGA 8800GTS 320MB KO (upgrade)
Twin WD Raptors in RAID-0 (keep these)
Corsair HX620 PSU (keep this)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Future Rig:
Phenom ii x2 550BE (unlock and OC to 3.6GHz QUAD)
Xigmatek Dark Knight 120mm CPU Cooler
Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P
8GB G.Skill DDR3 1600
XFX HD5770 1GB (eventually buy a second to run crossfire)
Transfer WD Raptors from old pc
Transfer Corsair HX620 PSU from old pc.
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Total cost is around $600.00 to add the new proc, hsf, mobo, memory and vid.
Would I see a significant increase in performance? I do a lot of photography and work in Lightroom and I'm a gamer and play COD4/COD6. I only do FPS games.
My other option would be to keep my Intel system and simply upgrade the video card to the XFX HD5770 for about $180 shipped. Upgrade the cpu/mobo next year early spring.
Thoughts and comments? If there is a significant performance increase on my proposed system vs existing system, for the minimal cost i may jump on it, if it's only my GPU lagging, i'll just upgrade the vid card. What do you experts say?
Thanks!
Eric
Current rig:
Core 2 Duo E6600 (OC to 3.1GHz) (upgrade)
4GB Corsair Dominator PC1066 DDR2 (upgrade)
DFI Lanparty 975X/G MB (upgrade)
EVGA 8800GTS 320MB KO (upgrade)
Twin WD Raptors in RAID-0 (keep these)
Corsair HX620 PSU (keep this)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Future Rig:
Phenom ii x2 550BE (unlock and OC to 3.6GHz QUAD)
Xigmatek Dark Knight 120mm CPU Cooler
Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P
8GB G.Skill DDR3 1600
XFX HD5770 1GB (eventually buy a second to run crossfire)
Transfer WD Raptors from old pc
Transfer Corsair HX620 PSU from old pc.
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Total cost is around $600.00 to add the new proc, hsf, mobo, memory and vid.
Would I see a significant increase in performance? I do a lot of photography and work in Lightroom and I'm a gamer and play COD4/COD6. I only do FPS games.
My other option would be to keep my Intel system and simply upgrade the video card to the XFX HD5770 for about $180 shipped. Upgrade the cpu/mobo next year early spring.
Thoughts and comments? If there is a significant performance increase on my proposed system vs existing system, for the minimal cost i may jump on it, if it's only my GPU lagging, i'll just upgrade the vid card. What do you experts say?
Thanks!
Eric