It's been a long time since I've upgraded my system; I decided to buy all three consoles and enjoy the simplicity of actually gaming as opposed to constantly benchmarking my equipment, testing driver sets and creating a bunch of graphs out of equally spec'ed competing hardware I would buy.
In the meanwhile, my PC has managed to handle all my online gaming needs so far. However, recently I've realised my system is failing when it comes to modern games, such as Bad Company 2.
The dillema is that I'm at a point where I can't see an upgrade path that doesn't involve a full system switch over. A new CPU requires a new motherboard, which requires DDR3 nowadays. This is, of course, simply in aid of not bottlenecking a new graphics card. In order to power all this I need a new PSU.
My current specs are:
680i
4 gigs Corsair 6400C4
e8400 running @ 4.0ghz
8800GTS 640
Hiper 580w
Is this build too archaic to revive with just a new GPU or does my lack of a decent quadcore still not matter in terms of gaming?
In the meanwhile, my PC has managed to handle all my online gaming needs so far. However, recently I've realised my system is failing when it comes to modern games, such as Bad Company 2.
The dillema is that I'm at a point where I can't see an upgrade path that doesn't involve a full system switch over. A new CPU requires a new motherboard, which requires DDR3 nowadays. This is, of course, simply in aid of not bottlenecking a new graphics card. In order to power all this I need a new PSU.
My current specs are:
680i
4 gigs Corsair 6400C4
e8400 running @ 4.0ghz
8800GTS 640
Hiper 580w
Is this build too archaic to revive with just a new GPU or does my lack of a decent quadcore still not matter in terms of gaming?
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