Right now I have a system running off a Phenom II X4 940 quad core (stock clocks but maybe soon to change due to new cooler next month), with a 9800GT 512MB, 4GB DDR2. I play games like GRID, Need for Speed Shift, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Call of Duty 4 + 6, Battlefield bad company 2 (rarely), GTA IV. I think I should also note that my motherboard is fairly rubbish, only supporting PCIe v1, nforce 520LE, slow HT link, etc etc.
Do you think when I get the money that I should upgrade to a GTX 260 core 216? I looked at the charts on toms hardware and it seems that it's about twice as good as my 9800GT (also the extra VRAM would benefit GTA IV and crysis alot). I play at 1920x1200 but if I could make my graphics card display at a quarter of that then I could still have a good picture (ie. 960x600). If I do upgrade, what performance increase do you think I would get given my current system components? I'm not sure whether it's more worthwhile upgrading that than keeping my current system and upgrading everything in a couple of years or so.
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Do you think when I get the money that I should upgrade to a GTX 260 core 216? I looked at the charts on toms hardware and it seems that it's about twice as good as my 9800GT (also the extra VRAM would benefit GTA IV and crysis alot). I play at 1920x1200 but if I could make my graphics card display at a quarter of that then I could still have a good picture (ie. 960x600). If I do upgrade, what performance increase do you think I would get given my current system components? I'm not sure whether it's more worthwhile upgrading that than keeping my current system and upgrading everything in a couple of years or so.
cheers