help i need system performance upgrade!

[mattowns]

i was thinking of getting this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115031



is that worth it or is there a better one. i have to get intel and lga775 are there any better ones around that price.

here is my specs:
ati x1900xtx 512 mb
4 gigs ram
pd 3.2
250 gb hardrive


i no its a decent system already but i want to go into dual core so please help i have around 150

 

[TRDCorolla1]

I think it's a great CPU for the price. Can't get better than that for the budget you have. As long as you know your motherboard can support a Core 2 Duo, you're set.

 

[gplpark92]

I think it's a great CPU for the price. Can't get better than that for the budget you have. As long as you know your motherboard can support a Core 2 Duo, you're set.

for $175 u can get an E6550 (which is almost identical to the E6600) so i think u can find something a little better than an E4500

 

[TRDCorolla1]

He doesn't want to spend more than $150. That CPU he linked is perfect for the price which covers taxes and shipping too. Oh wait, the shipping is free for that, lol. For something less than $150, that's the best Intel Core 2 Duo he can get, unless he's willing to fork over a little more. In that case, that E6550 is the best.

 

[mattowns]

is the extra like 25 bucks worth it. and also will it be a tremendous increase in performance? like load times and fps in games.

 

[TRDCorolla1]

Oh definitely, by far!!! Get the E6550!!!

 

[mattowns]

ok i have a couple more questions in crysis i play on all medium now will some of the visual tings go to high after i get this processor? and i get like 45 fps cosntant on meduim and like 25 on high will this go up dramaticly?

 

[TRDCorolla1]

You'll definitely meet the requirements to play Crysis. You clearly don't have any problems with the RAM count since you have a whole bunch. I thnk you'll do fine with what you have. I'm not too familiar with ATi video cards but you have 512MB of video RAM on that thing which helps a lot. As far as playing it at high settings, maybe you're not quite there yet. The resource used to get the full potential of the game is way too great. I wish I can play it on my laptop but it doesn't have a video card.

I don't know how to get the fps count when playing Crysis, but there are software out there like http://www.fraps.com/ that have something like that where it monitors frames per second.

 

[mattowns]

like i said i no what i have is decent but i want to get that dual core so i dont have to upgrade any time soon. and i no this is noobish question but is there a program that will tell me what motherboard i have.

 

[TRDCorolla1]

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php