Hi
About 3-4 years ago I purchased under good guidance an E8400 with an artic freezer, which is overclocked to 3.7 ghz and I cant squeeze anymore from it, a budget 775 MSI single PCI-E mobo, 4 gigs of DDR2 800 RAM, a 8800 GT.
It boded well for a few years, until last year I upgraded the card to a EVGA SC GTX 460 786mb.
I was holding out, until yesterday to upgrade my rig to a bulldozer, but unfortunately, I have been massively put off.
I dont want to splash the cash all that much if I can afford to, I have been plagued with problems with my current rig with random FPS spikes and freezes with COD BO and I have played in the beta for BF3 and also experienced sudden frame drops. I do also enjoy playing the odd game of HoN, ARMAII etc.
What I am asking is for someone with some expertise in what I should do next, is it worth maybe buying an AM3+ board with SLI and sticking a dirt cheap Athlon in there and trying (somehow) to find another EVGA 786mb card?
Or would it be better to focus on upgrading the CPU, mobo and RAM with a sandybridge
I really dont know that much about performance and what would be of most benefit, however I am aware of how the tech moves on and I would hate to spend money on an already out of date bit of hardware that leaves me with no room to upgrade whatsoever.
Help would be appreciated, as suggested my main focus is gaming.
About 3-4 years ago I purchased under good guidance an E8400 with an artic freezer, which is overclocked to 3.7 ghz and I cant squeeze anymore from it, a budget 775 MSI single PCI-E mobo, 4 gigs of DDR2 800 RAM, a 8800 GT.
It boded well for a few years, until last year I upgraded the card to a EVGA SC GTX 460 786mb.
I was holding out, until yesterday to upgrade my rig to a bulldozer, but unfortunately, I have been massively put off.
I dont want to splash the cash all that much if I can afford to, I have been plagued with problems with my current rig with random FPS spikes and freezes with COD BO and I have played in the beta for BF3 and also experienced sudden frame drops. I do also enjoy playing the odd game of HoN, ARMAII etc.
What I am asking is for someone with some expertise in what I should do next, is it worth maybe buying an AM3+ board with SLI and sticking a dirt cheap Athlon in there and trying (somehow) to find another EVGA 786mb card?
Or would it be better to focus on upgrading the CPU, mobo and RAM with a sandybridge
I really dont know that much about performance and what would be of most benefit, however I am aware of how the tech moves on and I would hate to spend money on an already out of date bit of hardware that leaves me with no room to upgrade whatsoever.
Help would be appreciated, as suggested my main focus is gaming.
