New Graphics Card Should I Also Upgrade The Rest?

rjenk74

rjenk74

rjenk74

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Hi all

My graphics card has just blown up, it was a BFG 8800 512MB OC, which unfortunately, I can’t return due to the company going under, shame.

I am currently running the following:
Intel Dual Core E6300 but over clocked to 2.6
4GB GeIL PC2-6400 memory
Gigabyte SKT775 965P MB.
Corsair 520W PSU

I use it play games and whilst it stopped been able to play the latest games at the highest res it wasn’t so bad and I’m not a hardcore games just a casual one.

So even before the card blow up as was contemplating an upgrade, but being skint and having other responsibilities I was planning on putting together a budget rig as of the below:

ASUS M4a78STD –M EVO 785G AM3
AMD Phenom II x2 555 Balck (will attempt to unlock the other 2 cores)
Kingston 4GB DDR3 1600 Hyper Memory
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD5750 Vaper 1GB

And use the case, HD etc from my current setup.

The problem is I don’t really want to do all this now so figured I would just buy the graphics card and use that in my current rig, so the question is, would this be just a waste of time as the rest of the current rig would hinder the new graphics card and thus I should upgrade the rest, or would just upgrading the graphics card still show a marked improvement and be an ok thing to do?

Of course I could just stick the card in and see what happens but be interesting to see what you chaps think?

Regards
Jenks
 
As Stulid says; just the card upgrade will do fine :) But his suggestion of upping to a second hand quad is a good one!
 
Cheers for the info Stulid

I already have the Graphics card en route (mate sorted one for me) so really it’s just what I do about the rest of the system. Yes I already have decent cooler so could try to blast more out of the E6300 but doubt would get much more out of it.
So if I dump the 6300 and drop in a Q6600 would I still suffer from having the older MB and memory or would that not actually be that bad then?

Will check out eBay see what the Q6600 are going for as that may help my decision 

Cheers
Jenks
 
check the motherboard makers cpu support list for that particular board, just to check it can take a Q6600, apart from that you will be ok, 4gb of ram is almost a standard amount these days, and a change of motherboard wont add any benefit in terms of speed.

a Q6600 should be £75
 
The Mobo does indeed take the Q6600 as well as a host of others, but there seems to be plenty of these Q6600 selling on eBay, so will keep my eye on those.

thanks for all the help chaps

cheers
Jenks
 
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