upgrade worth it?

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Hey guys and girls.

My pc used to be pretty good, a few years ago.

I cant afford a new system at the moment so would like some advice on where to go for now.

I have

MSI K8N Diamond mobo
AMD 64 FX-55
2 gig of gaming ram PC 3200 i think
XFX geforce 6800 ultra 512mb
Creative audigy card.

So i'm thinking that the system could handle a gfx card upgrade?

If so what would be a good card to look at on a medium budget? I take it that even a cheap card is a lot faster than the card i have in there at the moment?

I dont do a lot of pc gaming but there are some new sims on the way that i want to play

I-racing
DCS black shark
storm of war

So i would like the card to be transferable to a new cpu/mobo combo in the future.

My current card is pci-e but i dont think my mobo is ver 2.0 ? i dont have the box etc anymore so i'm not to sure.

Adam
 
It's all well and good purchaing a new 8800 or higher but the CPU will cause a performance bottleneck. Do you have a budget? There are some cheap upgrade options and you might be surpised at the cost of a new system.
 
Personally Id upgrade the Mobo CPU and RAM first. I did it about a year ago to support SLI, its not too expensive but that all depends on your budget!
 
Ah so my cpu is too slow to get the benefits out of a 8800 card?

So say i had £500 what would my best options be? or is my current system scrap?
 
£500! you could build a pretty good system for that. Quad core, 4 gig of ram and a decent GFX easily
 
You won't get full benefit from the graphics card, but it would certainly make a big difference and is a much cheaper / simpler upgrade :)
 
For a "cheap" gaming system I would look at the following:

Core2Duo - Probably a E8400 wolfdale at around £115 as it doesn't require such a beast of a motherboard, cooler and PSU to overclock well like the Q6600
Basic P45 Motherboard - £80
ATI 4850 - £115
4GB DDR2 1066 RAM - £70
Quality branded PSU no less than 500W - £50

Clearly case, hard disk space, etc are really a matter of taste :)
 
sibeer said:
You won't get full benefit from the graphics card, but it would certainly make a big difference and is a much cheaper / simpler upgrade :)
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Yea see i used to buy the fastest thing available all the time, but am unable to do that anymore.

So i figured a new gfx card would boost me through till i can go for a better cpu/mobo etc.

I dont want to get something that wont be of any use when i do finally get a new cpu/mobo!

I suppose its the vicious circle of computer components!

The good thing i guess is that the system i have is old and slow compared to todays stuff, so even a medium spec new build should give me huge performance boosts.

Thanks for your input so far people
 
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