Upgrade or new system?

[Indecision1991]

I was wondering whether to upgrade my system or just build a new one. The current specs for my current system are as follow:

Cpu- Amd Phenom II 955 BE X4
Ram-4GB gskill ddr3
Motherboard-Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P
GPU-Sapphire 4850(2 Of them in crossfire)
PSU-OCZ modxstream 700 watt
Optical Drive-Samsung Blu-ray player and lite on dvd burner
Hdd-500GB samsung F3, Seagate 1TB Baracuda
Case-Haf932

The system I was wondering about building for myself will have all the latest components so for example a 6 core cpu, motherboard that supports usb3.0 and sata3, and a 5870.

Kinda a AMD and ATI fanboy so I am gonna stick with them. Primary use is going to be gaming and video editing. I am kinda in a dilemma on whether to build the system for myself for christmas or just wait another year with my current build and see what is good then.

 

[hunter315]

Why are you feeling the need to upgrade your system? What isnt it doing for you?

I have a very similar system with only a single 4850 and havent found a need to upgrade it quite yet, im probably going to swap the 4850 for one of the 6xxx cards when they arrive.

 

[r-sky]

sata3 offers no improvement with mainstream hard drives. SSD's in raid - OK.

USB3 - buy a $25 add on card.

Nice rig btw.

 

[Indecision1991]

Well I am starting to do alot of montage making and It takes about 10 minutes to render a 2 minute long video. Either that or I was planning on just getting more ram since I constantly get messages on Sony Vegas Pro saying I ran out of memory. Or I plan on waiting for the 6xxx series when they come out. Just asking for opinions. If yall say to just buy an addon card and wait for 6xxx series cards I will do so. My games are dropping in FPS everytime something new comes out. I mean BFBC2 is only getting me 80FPS when nothing is going on around me but the moment a single rocket goes past me I drop down to 30FPS and for me I notice it.

 

[banthracis]

If you're looking to do rendering you want an Intel CPU. Even the x6 CPU's are no match for an i7-9xx.

 

[Indecision1991]

Yea I was also thinking of going intel. I work at Microcenter so I can get a decent build for a good price. Gonna keep everything but motherboard and cpu. I like gigabyte and I will just go with the GA-X58A-UD5 and an I7 930 plus some more ram.

 

[Indecision1991]

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