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[ZUTON]

Its it worth upgrading my CPU & Motherboard to Conroe around £500 or keeping what i have for a while

Logitech MX Revolution Advanced Cordless
Logitech MX1000
Logitech Cordless G7
19 "Viewsonic 912B
Windows XP Pro
Seasonic S12 600W Silent ATX2.0
FX 57 @ 3.0 Mhz
Asus A8N-SLi SE nForce4 SLi
2GB PC3200 400 DDR
7800 GTX 256
X2 160 STA 160 HD
CreativeLabs Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS

 

[t31os]

Not worth it if it can do everything you use it for.

Would you upgrade your car if there nothing wrong with the one you have?....

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Would you upgrade your car if there nothing wrong with the one you have?....

You would if it was a race car and you were looking for that extra tenth.


However, I'd only upgrade that rig if I had more money than sense. Save up for DX10 and Kentsfield.

 

[Tetras]

No point, keep your cash (unless you can get a good price for the FX-57).

 

[t31os]

You would if it was a race car and you were looking for that extra tenth.


However, I'd only upgrade that rig if I had more money than sense. Save up for DX10 and Kentsfield.

And if you were in an overclocking competition you'd want the best PC, but we're not talking about a competition here are we?....

Makes no sense whatsoever to upgrade when there's no need, other then giving into the upgrade bug, i've been telling myself i don't need an upgrade for the last few months, damn conroes are tempting.

In reality though, anything i use, doesnt really stress the system... not to an extent where i get impatient, so for me i'd be wasting money upgrading.

I suppose thats what it comes down to, does the system you have struggle in its use?..... thats for you to answer though.

My venice 3200 is the fastest PC ' i've owned ', and i'm happy with the performance. I can burn a disk, whilst watching a film, checking email and browsing the web, then maybe open up another few aps, and it deals with it fine, so why would i need more?.... for showing off?... nah thanx...