Any games on the horizon worth upgrading for?

HangTime said:
It would be but if you have a large monitor and crank up the res/aa it won't have such an impact. The vast majority of games are GPU limited at high resolution (ignoring the likes of GTA4, SupCom etc) and a 3850 is definitely holding back a 3ghz C2D.
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You'd be surprised, found a lot of games that were CPU limited - with Age of Conan for instance going from stock to 3GHz on my CPU made a nearly 100% framerate difference, whereas if I overcloced my GPU it didn't even notice! :p

Anyway, I think I have my answer: the next NFS game, which is coming out in November. I don't think there'll be any new graphics card releases till then, since the 4xx series are new and the 5xxxx series are only a few months old, so I may just as well get a 460 now. I'm sure it'll be held back a bit by my CPU, but I have a sneaking suspicion that my motherboard is about to conk out, and when that happens I'll no doubt upgrade the whole system.
 
I play a lot my games that you probably do and that justified my upgrade (full system), although I did it before I really wanted to.

Old system spec was a C2D at 3.2ghz (1.8ghz stock!), 4gb giel ddr2 800mhz RAM and a 8800GT 512mb.

On my old monitor, it ran games pretty well and high everything apart from crysis and that was on a 17inch tft screen. I got a samsung 22inch tft (full HD one) on sale and that prompted me to do the system upgrade as the computer just couldn't handle some of the games I play at 1920x1080 res.

Good news if you can do it relatively on the cheap now! Keep the PSU and case and get a 460 1gb, cheap i5/i7, decent mobo and some half decent ddr 3 and it wont break the bank compared to 6 months ago.
 
Yeah I upgraded my monitor too recently, but my framerates took a surprisingly small hit for a jump from 12801024 to 1920x1080!

I really wanted a 1900x1200 monitor tbh but they're nowhere to be found these days :(
 
manveruppd said:
That's why I asked if there's anything coming in the next 2-3 months that might be GPU-intensive, to find an excuse to spend the money now!:p
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Come on people, focus on what's important! :p

There are many wonderful games coming out, very, very soon. You should get a new card now.








Seriously, though. If you already have Bioshock and Stalker, that should be enough, especially if you are avoiding games like Team Fortress 2 for the same reason. Buy a new card, and play them now. That way they won't be taking up your time when all the new games start coming out.

That said, Dragon Age is fantastic, and will run like butter, so you could always play that whilst waiting a bit longer for a new card. That will fill a hundred hours or so of playing time!
 
The only games that I can see taxing your system might be:
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Fallout: New Vegas
Civilization 5

Things I would upgrade first:
- GFX card
- Highest skt 775 CPU your motherboard can take (this might be second hand).
 
I'd forgotten about New Vegas, I definitely plan to play that even though I never got F3. Dragon Age I do intend to play, but I don't have the attention span to play a massive plot-heavy tactical party-RPG start to finish - I need the occasional brainless FPS and racing game to distract me from my chin-stroking tactical manouevreing and the deep and meaningful empathy I'll no doubt feel for the characters... :p
Unfortunately I think my motherboard is conking out, so rather than upgrade the CPU it'll have to be the whole system (CPU/mobo/RAM). But the graphics card is still the weakest link in my system so I reckon if I upgrade now I can milk the rest till it dies and then jump to a newer platform.
 
To be honest, I'm looking to refresh my system at Christmas as a present for myself.

I've started using my MacBook Pro a lot more to be honest, but I enjoy having a main rig for gaming.

Going to donate this to my Little brother (will make him give me some money towards it :p)

Currently - Q6600 - 4GB DDR2 - 260 GTX thing - 1TB storage - 24" Dell Monitor - Antec 300.

Wanting to go down the I7 - 6GB - SLi spec kind of thing, with a duel monitor set up.
 
Tummy said:
Currently - Q6600 - 4GB DDR2 - 260 GTX thing - 1TB storage - 24" Dell Monitor - Antec 300.

Wanting to go down the I7 - 6GB - SLi spec kind of thing, with a duel monitor set up.
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I'm along the same lines. Q6600 at stock, 4gb though only 3 seems to work, 9600 GSO, packard bell premade :o

I've been thinking of the i7 6gb ddr3 movement too if only so i don't have to think about upgrading the processor, but then comes the problem of getting a decent graphics card too without it going too overbudget since the i7 isn't exactly cheap.

Honestly though i can wait a little till things come down in price. My current setup is getting sluggish and is in dire need of more HD space but it'll do. That and i've never built a pc in my life and don't want to break anything :rolleyes:
 
unknownsock said:
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 3 & Battlefield 3. :o
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+1..

I was going to upgrade to a Quad Core 955/965 and a Nvidia 460, but seeing as BF3 is at least 12mths away, and all i play ATM is BF2 (and some mods), i may as well see whats new and shiney when the game launches....bound to run it better than anything available today...

So until then, hardware failure permitting, my trusty dual core Phenom II 550 and 4850 will do.
 
Evilsod said:
I'm along the same lines. Q6600 at stock, 4gb though only 3 seems to work, 9600 GSO, packard bell premade :o

I've been thinking of the i7 6gb ddr3 movement too if only so i don't have to think about upgrading the processor, but then comes the problem of getting a decent graphics card too without it going too overbudget since the i7 isn't exactly cheap.

Honestly though i can wait a little till things come down in price. My current setup is getting sluggish and is in dire need of more HD space but it'll do. That and i've never built a pc in my life and don't want to break anything :rolleyes:
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This was the first PC I've made on my own.

I actually really enjoyed it, found it very straight forward if you just follow the instructions.

I'm finding this a bit too sluggish, so I'm going to scrape and save until Christmas, then really splash out and treat myself (I hope, depends on money) :)

I also, want a really nice (fairly quiet) case.
 
I've got a similar spec right now. I'm considering a Core2 quad which I'll overclock, and maybe a GTX450.
I think that should be a nice upgrade, without having to fork out on new RAM and an i5 setup.
 
Civilization 5 requirements have just been released and the reccomended spec is pretty steep, this could be a major system hog and could be a good reason to upgrade if turn based strategy is your thing.
 
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