Best graphics card to upgrade to?

[baron5]

Newegg.com - Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz 2MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops
Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-G41M-ES2L LGA 775 Intel G41 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards
Newegg.com - G.SKILL PI Black 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-6400CL4D-4GBPI-B - Desktop Memory

Get those where you can find them, 293$ NZD.

Sell your existing parts (Motherboard, CPU, RAM) and all together you should get at least 70$ for the 3 parts, at least I'd imagine so.

Once that is done, throw in a extra 10$ or so and get this
Newegg.com - MSI R4830-T2D512 Radeon HD 4830 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

A e5200 with a g41 chipset wouldnt be a huge upgrade since he wouldnt be able to overclock at all on a g41, hes better off saving up a decent amount and getting a phenom.

 

[Tenenbaum]

A e5200 with a g41 chipset wouldnt be a huge upgrade since he wouldnt be able to overclock at all on a g41, hes better off saving up a decent amount and getting a phenom.

Oh right, disregard what I said, I thought I had read he had a 3400+, not 4400+.
Sorry about that.

Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[baron5]

Its just hard to justify to effort and money for the upgrade when its not really going to be a huge boost and wont last that long at all, i would save your cash for now, you could probably get away with chucking in a 4850 and not having a too big of bottleneck, but imo i would save for a bit.

 

[cyrax]

I suppose I'll save up $500-$800 then see how I go then.


Cheers for the help guys, really appreciated.