Phenom 2 X4 OR 4850 CF ??

[trifty]

Hey there guys .. I now have enough money to EITHER buy an ATI sapphire 5770 DDR5 1GB OR crossfire an ATI 4850 1GB Vapor-X card or upgrade my CPU to a Phenom 2 X4 955..

my current specs is :

AMD Athlon 2 x2 245 2.9ghz am3
Asus M4a785TD-V Evo
Tagan stone rock 600W
ATI 4850 Vapor-x 1GB
Mushkin DDR3 2gb
Kingston DDR3 2gb
Windows 7 Ultimate
Samsung 320GB HDD
HAF 932

So guys .. is CF-ing 2 4850 Vapor-x 1GB worth it ?? or upgrading my CPU to a phenom 2 quad ?? which will give me a more performance boost ??

My PSU wattage >>.. +3.3v/24A | +5v/30A | +12V1/22A | +12V2/22A | -12v/0.5a | +5vsb/2.5a total = 600W .. the 12v1 and 12v2 = 528 watts ..

I usually run games like COD4/L4D/L4D2 on Full Reso 1920x1080 and games like FC2/crysis/prototype at 1280 coz of the lag .. Im running on an Acer P225HQ (21.5")

 

[loneninja]

Better video card will for sure yield better performance in most games at that resolution.

 

[warmon6]

Better video card will for sure yield better performance in most games at that resolution.

+1

From most games, better gpu's will give better results than better cpus. Although if you had the money i would try to get at a tri core cpu (like phenom II x3 720). That way the game runs on 2 cores and the third core is running the drivers for the gpu(s) / os background activities.

I recommend a tri core becuase you dont gain very much FPS from tri to quad core cpus but you do gain a decent amount of FPS from dual to tri core cpus on some to most games.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/default.aspx?p=96&p2=83

 

[B-Unit]

Personally Id go for the second 4850 and look to get a quad or better next year.

 

[trifty]

ic ic .. thanks guys .. but can my PSU handle it ??