I do a good bit of gaming but my current rig just cant handle the newest games, My specs are as follows :
AMD phenom 9600 quad core processor 2.3 ghz (TLB bug fix turned off in bios)
8gb of ADATA 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 PC2 6400 RAM
XFX Radeon HD 4890 Graphics card
Maxtor 6Y250M0 SATA 250gb Hard Drive (Primary HD)
Western Digital WD2500BEVT 250gb hard drive (Storage)
MSI K9A2 Platinum Motherboard.
Rosewill RG530-2 530W PSU
iMicro CA-859BK3 X-Blade Gaming computer Case
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
With total war shogun 2 I get about 20 FPS while viewing the world map and about 10-15 when In battle scenes, I get 10-20 FPS while playing the Battlefield 3 beta. With red faction armegeddon I get up to 40 FPS in smaller areas but average about 20-25. I plan on upgrading rather around Christmas or in early March, I was originally thinking upgrade the Graphics Card but I have had a few people tell me that I actually would get a better performance increase by upgrading my processor because they say its the bottleneck in my current setup. Now if I upgraded the graphics card I was looking at the http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127579 and a new PSU because my current one wont be enough to power this card, final price came out to $665.97. If I upgrade my processor then I would like to get the http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103913 (I want the 6 core over the quad because I do alot of audio recording with my band and I use a lot of VST's so I would greatly benefit from the extra 2 cores) But my MOBO doesn't support AM3 but I had read somewhere that with a bios update that It actually can support this processor, is there any truth behind this and if not what would be a good MOBO that would last me a good while and also ram if the MOBO is for DDR3 because I only have DDR2. What would be the recommended upgrade path ? I also got to thinking that if I was planning on spending about $700 in the first place why not just get this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883147971 and get a really nice Video card later on, plus I could really use the 1TB HD that it comes with, although i'm not keen on getting a pre-built computer, but i-m not against it either.
P.S. I am not against an Intel system, I would actually love a system with the new Core i7 2600K but I just cant afford Intel lol, and also I am not biased towards Nvidia or ATI graphics cards either, the better deal is what I'm after at the moment.
P.P.S Sorry for such a long post, also I am new to the forums so give me some slack if im doing anything wrong. lol
AMD phenom 9600 quad core processor 2.3 ghz (TLB bug fix turned off in bios)
8gb of ADATA 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 PC2 6400 RAM
XFX Radeon HD 4890 Graphics card
Maxtor 6Y250M0 SATA 250gb Hard Drive (Primary HD)
Western Digital WD2500BEVT 250gb hard drive (Storage)
MSI K9A2 Platinum Motherboard.
Rosewill RG530-2 530W PSU
iMicro CA-859BK3 X-Blade Gaming computer Case
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
With total war shogun 2 I get about 20 FPS while viewing the world map and about 10-15 when In battle scenes, I get 10-20 FPS while playing the Battlefield 3 beta. With red faction armegeddon I get up to 40 FPS in smaller areas but average about 20-25. I plan on upgrading rather around Christmas or in early March, I was originally thinking upgrade the Graphics Card but I have had a few people tell me that I actually would get a better performance increase by upgrading my processor because they say its the bottleneck in my current setup. Now if I upgraded the graphics card I was looking at the http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127579 and a new PSU because my current one wont be enough to power this card, final price came out to $665.97. If I upgrade my processor then I would like to get the http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103913 (I want the 6 core over the quad because I do alot of audio recording with my band and I use a lot of VST's so I would greatly benefit from the extra 2 cores) But my MOBO doesn't support AM3 but I had read somewhere that with a bios update that It actually can support this processor, is there any truth behind this and if not what would be a good MOBO that would last me a good while and also ram if the MOBO is for DDR3 because I only have DDR2. What would be the recommended upgrade path ? I also got to thinking that if I was planning on spending about $700 in the first place why not just get this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883147971 and get a really nice Video card later on, plus I could really use the 1TB HD that it comes with, although i'm not keen on getting a pre-built computer, but i-m not against it either.
P.S. I am not against an Intel system, I would actually love a system with the new Core i7 2600K but I just cant afford Intel lol, and also I am not biased towards Nvidia or ATI graphics cards either, the better deal is what I'm after at the moment.
P.P.S Sorry for such a long post, also I am new to the forums so give me some slack if im doing anything wrong. lol