Hello there.
At the moment, I have an M2R32-MVP crossfire motherboard, AMD Athlon x2 6000+ processor, and nVidia GTS250 graphics card. I am looking to upgrade individual components, but I'm not exactly sure what would net me the best bang for my buck. I had planned to buy some combination of the following:
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 2.8GHz
A mid-high end graphics card (think 200 - 300 $), like the GeForce GTX 465
ASUS M4N98TD EVO AM3 NVIDIA nForce 980a SLI ATX AMD Motherboard for both AM3 compatibility and possible future SLI upgrade path.
A friend of mine just purchased a new motherboard and CPU (x4 Phenom I think), upgrading from an older dual core Athlon of some sort, but kept his Geforce 9800GT. He reported massive frame rate increases for such things as tree detail in the Terokkar Forest of WoW. So now I'm wondering if I might save some money and get a decent upgrade just by upgrading the CPU and keeping my current video card, or whether that upgrade would be tiny and I should spring for a new graphics card too?
At the moment, I have an M2R32-MVP crossfire motherboard, AMD Athlon x2 6000+ processor, and nVidia GTS250 graphics card. I am looking to upgrade individual components, but I'm not exactly sure what would net me the best bang for my buck. I had planned to buy some combination of the following:
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 2.8GHz
A mid-high end graphics card (think 200 - 300 $), like the GeForce GTX 465
ASUS M4N98TD EVO AM3 NVIDIA nForce 980a SLI ATX AMD Motherboard for both AM3 compatibility and possible future SLI upgrade path.
A friend of mine just purchased a new motherboard and CPU (x4 Phenom I think), upgrading from an older dual core Athlon of some sort, but kept his Geforce 9800GT. He reported massive frame rate increases for such things as tree detail in the Terokkar Forest of WoW. So now I'm wondering if I might save some money and get a decent upgrade just by upgrading the CPU and keeping my current video card, or whether that upgrade would be tiny and I should spring for a new graphics card too?