Should I upgrade?

[veg1992]

You posted the same review again and again and again (and another two more times)

Have you looked at the Nextgen GPU thread? I really want to know

 

[Redmo0n]

The 4850 is better, take the advice of 100's of members on here when we say that.

Also Crysis is more a poorly designed benchmark than a game. (ignoring the whole gameplay) When it was made the developers thought that hardware would be a lot more advanced than it is, so they made a very demanding game.

9800GX2's perform the best in Crysis, are they the best cards? No.

 

[Thresh25]

lol Same review all on different games. all those different games the 9800GTX+ did better.

 

[zmatt]

Look dude, you came here for advice. We gave it to you. Take it or leave it. But don't act like we are complete idiots. I already told you those results were old and based off the release drivers. It's your money, waste it however you want.

 

[Thresh25]

I asked for advice on whether I should build a brand new computer or keep what I got and do minor upgrades. I did not ask for video card preference and I stated I was sticking with nvidia. I would like advice on what this post was about, not my personal preference.

 

[Ventriac]

To answer your question, YES UPGRADE. 4850>9800gtx+

Either way your new cardd is going to be better than your 8600.

 

[Thresh25]

Yeah, am definitely going to upgrade the video card for SC2 and crysis, UT3 etc etc. but I was wondering if I should just do an entire system upgrade to futureproof my system more. At the time of build for this machine, I was highly uneducated and didn't look to see what was coming out in the near future

 

[zmatt]

It wouldn't hurt. You can grab a Q6600 and a p35 for pretty cheap. That would give you a good boost but I would hardly call it future proof. Nehalem is coming out soon so I wouldn't make a major upgrade until it comes out. Even if you don't buy Nehalem the old 775 stuff will be at close out prices.

 

[Thresh25]

Nehalem is out of my price range unfortunately. So I'd probably more likely to buy an intel quad core. Do you think I need a full tower, right now I have a mid, and with my aftermarket cpu cooler it is cramped, I can't imagine trying to fit these new gpus in there now. so for a q6600 and a p35, about about would that run?

 

[Baez]

There are some lower priced Nehalem's coming too you know. They're going to be like the Allendale's when Conroe was brand new.