Awaiting the arrival of a new system...
Core i5 2400
ASRock H61M-VS Motherboard
G.Skill 1333 DDR3 Ram 4gb
Radeon 5670 512mb GDDR5
300gb 3gb/s SATA 7200rpm HDD (perhaps different volume, but same specs)
Lite-On DVD-RW (24x or maybe 48x...not really an issue)
The HDD I realize is older and a 10k RPM or SSD would be better, but im mostly concerned with the other components (cpu, ram, gfx card).
In a previous post I upgraded from a Phenom 9500 and 3gb of DDR2. My question is, in the above system...what is going to be the biggest bottleneck? I'd assume the video card. Follow up question is, how much performance gain will I see from the new setup over the old...gaming specifically? Am I going to notice much difference in games (WoW, SC2, COD, etc...) with the new cpu/ram?
I'm not opposed to upgrading the video card again, maybe 3-6 months from now...and using the 5670 in an HTPC machine.
Core i5 2400
ASRock H61M-VS Motherboard
G.Skill 1333 DDR3 Ram 4gb
Radeon 5670 512mb GDDR5
300gb 3gb/s SATA 7200rpm HDD (perhaps different volume, but same specs)
Lite-On DVD-RW (24x or maybe 48x...not really an issue)
The HDD I realize is older and a 10k RPM or SSD would be better, but im mostly concerned with the other components (cpu, ram, gfx card).
In a previous post I upgraded from a Phenom 9500 and 3gb of DDR2. My question is, in the above system...what is going to be the biggest bottleneck? I'd assume the video card. Follow up question is, how much performance gain will I see from the new setup over the old...gaming specifically? Am I going to notice much difference in games (WoW, SC2, COD, etc...) with the new cpu/ram?
I'm not opposed to upgrading the video card again, maybe 3-6 months from now...and using the 5670 in an HTPC machine.