Ancient System - upgrade time?

[benlanky]

Evening

As you can see from my sig, I haven't changed much in my system for about 2 years, so it is getting a bit ancient.

I have been playing BF3 and MW3, but spend more time on BF2 than anything else... Alan Wake is on its way to me now and I'm tempted by the 6850 deals that are on at the moment.

Looking at a comparison (http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/539?vs=513) I am going to see a huge difference, but will the rest of my system cope and is it worth the bother?

I use a Samsung 22" screen and a secondary Sony 19"" too.

Thanks, I think I just need a nudge

 

[benlanky]

how have you managed to fit all them inside an xbox360?

That actually made me laugh, good effort

My Q6600 is clocked, although only gently.

 

[benlanky]

^^ When you say gently, do you mean less than 3ghz?

3.1 iirc.

 

[benlanky]

Well, it seems ancient with all the recent developments in processors, but I can still play everything on it

I'll have a look for 5870s too, but I was attracted by the supposedly low noise and power consumption of the 6850 too, the 4870 sounds like a helicopter and uses almost as much fuel!

I need to look at the clocking on the Q6600 again too, as it doesn't seem to be running at 3.1 at all......

 

[benlanky]

That's why I went for a Q6600 as I thought it would outlast most other processors and it has, so far. I need to have a good look at the overclocking before doing anything else, but it looks like the 6850 would be a good upgrade.
Now off to trawl for a relevant Q6600 overclocking guide......
Thanks

 

[benlanky]

I'll get around to sorting out the CPU before Friday, when my new 6850 will be arriving