Just looking for tips on my situation. I trying to be frugal with adding some new hardware as its been a few years now.
I have a e6750 core 2 duo oced to 3.0 ghz (used to be 3.7 but that just up and stopped)
A MSI mobo with sli just at 8x
A radeon 4850 512m
2 gb of ddr2 memory (2 x 1gb)
23 inch 1080p monitor.
Now I want to run my games on high at 1080p and I used to be fine at 1680 by 1050 with my old monitor. Now with the new I had to drop down to 720p resolutions. Should I find a board to do cross fire and add a 2nd vid card and keep the core 2 duo? Should I get a phenom ii x4 or x3 and oc them? Stick with ddr 2 if I can? Just looking for bang for the buck and would like to stick around 120ish for a processor.
Let me know of any ideas. Thanks!
I have a e6750 core 2 duo oced to 3.0 ghz (used to be 3.7 but that just up and stopped)
A MSI mobo with sli just at 8x
A radeon 4850 512m
2 gb of ddr2 memory (2 x 1gb)
23 inch 1080p monitor.
Now I want to run my games on high at 1080p and I used to be fine at 1680 by 1050 with my old monitor. Now with the new I had to drop down to 720p resolutions. Should I find a board to do cross fire and add a 2nd vid card and keep the core 2 duo? Should I get a phenom ii x4 or x3 and oc them? Stick with ddr 2 if I can? Just looking for bang for the buck and would like to stick around 120ish for a processor.
Let me know of any ideas. Thanks!