Upgrade Advice

nicksource · 30 Sep 2008 at 07:43

Hi guys,

I'm wishing to upgrade to run primarily Far Cry 2 and Crysis Warhead on Very High settings.

My current setup is:
e2180 @ 3ghz
2gb RAM
8800GTS 320mb

I was considering to increasing to 4gb RAM and the "Asus GTX 260 896MB". I'll be only running 1280x1024 res. Is this sufficient or will my CPU struggle?

Also, which Vista is best suited, Home or Ultimate, 32bit or 64bit?

Kind Regards,
Nick.

bailey12856 · 30 Sep 2008 at 09:37

Well if you are looking to use 4gb of RAM then the 64bit version of Vista is required. Also your not really playing at a huge res so maybe the ATi 4850 card might be a better and cheaper option.

ACESHIGH · 30 Sep 2008 at 13:36

bailey12856 said:
Well if you are looking to use 4gb of RAM then the 64bit version of Vista is required. Also your not really playing at a huge res so maybe the ATi 4850 card might be a better and cheaper option.

2nded

nicksource · 30 Sep 2008 at 17:44

Thanks for the replies. Which 4580 would you reccomend?

And this setup will run Very High all okay?

bailey12856 · 30 Sep 2008 at 18:10

nicksource said:
Thanks for the replies. Which 4580 would you reccomend?

And this setup will run Very High all okay?

any 4850, and yes it will at that res

PwnDirect · 30 Sep 2008 at 18:14

on the 4850 front

Asus for warrenty

HIS for cooling

nicksource · 30 Sep 2008 at 20:06

Going with the 4870 as it's on offer:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-100-HT&tool=3

Also, for gaming purposes should I go for Vista Home or Ultimate? And is it easy to upgrade from XP?

Thanks a lot guys.