J.D are you going to look into getting a 2nd hand Q6600 or something? With your current CPU you might not see much improvement with the 5850 over your current 4870...
Hi Marine.
I'm either going to get the i5 760 or the i3 530.
I ordered 4gb of DDR3 with the 5850 so that's on it's way. The reason I never ordered everything was my friend let me down with £300 he was due me so with what I had, I ordered the 5850 and DDR3 on Tuesday. He's giving me the money tonight so I'll be ordering the new CPU and motherboard either tonight, tomorrow or Sunday. I'm not too fussed about when I order it as I'll not get it any quicker over the next few days.
One part I'm stuck with is what CPU to get. I encode rarely, I don't use any video editing software. I mainly game and read on my PC so I'm not sure if the i5 will blow my mind out of the water compared to a similar clocked i3 (I'm going to clock the nuts of either CPU ).
So as I will be ordering in the next few days. What would you suggest?.