Well tax time is approaching which means christmas for papa, the kids had thier turn. Im thinking of upgrading something in my desktop but not sure what because im not sure what will give me the most benefit. Currently running a Q6600 with 4 gig of DDR2 and a Geforce 250 GTS 512 .
I dont know if I should 1. upgrade to the new 2600k with mobo and ram . 2 upgrade the video card to a 300 dollar plus video card, or three go with a mid range 200 dollar video card and a mid to higher range amd processor. I only plan to spend between 4-6 hundred and if its not enough of a perfomance increase i dont see the point in doing it.
I play wow. ALOT . I was great on Ultra before the last patch with the graphics upgrades. Now not so much even tho i cant bring myself to lower the graphics so i lag in heavy spell casting or heavy traffic areas. Especially around flames . Done alot of reading and to tell you the truth , it just doesnt seem to be as plain and simple as it used to be. It used to be you had pretty straight forward setups for your low range mid range and high performance gaming builds. .. not so much anymore . Could I get some opinions on where I would do best at upgrading? would a higher performance video card help ? or would my cpu and ram just bottleneck it .
I would like to try to get into a Directx 11 cards as wow has directx 11 support in testing now and toms hardware reported a decent fps increase just from switching to dx 11
Thanks guys I hope i spelled that out as plainly as possible and I really appreciate everyone input
I dont know if I should 1. upgrade to the new 2600k with mobo and ram . 2 upgrade the video card to a 300 dollar plus video card, or three go with a mid range 200 dollar video card and a mid to higher range amd processor. I only plan to spend between 4-6 hundred and if its not enough of a perfomance increase i dont see the point in doing it.
I play wow. ALOT . I was great on Ultra before the last patch with the graphics upgrades. Now not so much even tho i cant bring myself to lower the graphics so i lag in heavy spell casting or heavy traffic areas. Especially around flames . Done alot of reading and to tell you the truth , it just doesnt seem to be as plain and simple as it used to be. It used to be you had pretty straight forward setups for your low range mid range and high performance gaming builds. .. not so much anymore . Could I get some opinions on where I would do best at upgrading? would a higher performance video card help ? or would my cpu and ram just bottleneck it .
I would like to try to get into a Directx 11 cards as wow has directx 11 support in testing now and toms hardware reported a decent fps increase just from switching to dx 11
Thanks guys I hope i spelled that out as plainly as possible and I really appreciate everyone input