Time to upgrade?

nukemben

nukemben

nukemben

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Hey, I was just playing through the CoD4 campaign to pysche me up for MW2 release and noticed it was feeling a little laggy, so its probably time for a hardware upgrade! Any advice on which component I should upgrade?

This is the list of whats inside the computer my brother left me before going away!

M2N32-SLI Deluxe (Socket AM2)
AMD Athlon X2 4200+ (Processor - Socket AM2)
2*1GB Ram - Crucial 667MHz
1*2GB Ram - Kingston 800MHz
BFG Geforce 8800GS OC2+ ("Buy another for SLI if you want, probs not worth it though")
Windows 7 64bit
2*500GB Samsung 7200RPM HD's
Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer (PCI Sound Card)

Any advice? I think sometime last year he told me I should seriously get a new processor, but isnt the graphics card the thing holding back games?

Would greatly appreciate any feedback! :)
 
i would say upgrade the lot, however this is not taking into account what budget you might have available to do this. if you're just playing CoD you could probably get away with your current gfx card until you have the money to get another as CoD is not a graphically demanding game. If you had a budget it would make life a lot easier.
 
I would say £150-£200? And I am only running on a 17" Monitor at 1280*1024, so it may not need to be as powerful as some of you with 30"!

A years worth of hard earned paper round money!
 
gonna be tight, ermmm maybe get an am2+ processor, i believe you can get am2+ quad, not sure if your mobo would support it, i know am2+ will work but a quad i dunno, i'll leave that to someone who knows about amd chips to advise on.

However if you could raise it up to £250 you can get an am3 setup with a tri-core black edition, new mobo and ddr3 which is a great setup for the money.
 
no probs mate shop around for the best deal if you can't make the £250 you can always drop the tri core down to this processor which is a cracking little chip.
 
£242.97 gets you

AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail
OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3G1333LV4GK)
Asus M4A77TD Pro AMD 770 (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
 
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