Hello everybody!
I have an Athlon 64 x2 4400+ on a MSI 0A7C motherboard (it's a HP dx2250 desktop), 2 GB of DDR2 ram, MS Industrial PRO 550W PSU and an Gigabyte GeForce 9600 GT 512 mb DDR3 GPU. I would like to upgrade my GPU to a Radeon 6670 or perhaps a 5770 or GTX 260 but I'm pretty sure my CPU would bottleneck a Radeon 5670 not to mention the 5770. What CPU should I buy to be able to upgrade my GPU to a 6670 or a 5770? The socket is AM2 so there aren't many AM2 CPUs out there, and actually that's the biggest problem... I was thinking about a Athlon 64 x2 5600+ but I'm not sure is it worth upgrading from a 4400+ to a 5600+ and would the 5600+ bottleneck the 5770 too?
I have an Athlon 64 x2 4400+ on a MSI 0A7C motherboard (it's a HP dx2250 desktop), 2 GB of DDR2 ram, MS Industrial PRO 550W PSU and an Gigabyte GeForce 9600 GT 512 mb DDR3 GPU. I would like to upgrade my GPU to a Radeon 6670 or perhaps a 5770 or GTX 260 but I'm pretty sure my CPU would bottleneck a Radeon 5670 not to mention the 5770. What CPU should I buy to be able to upgrade my GPU to a 6670 or a 5770? The socket is AM2 so there aren't many AM2 CPUs out there, and actually that's the biggest problem... I was thinking about a Athlon 64 x2 5600+ but I'm not sure is it worth upgrading from a 4400+ to a 5600+ and would the 5600+ bottleneck the 5770 too?