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I am wanting to upgrade my system.  Here's what I have right now...

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Current System
AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 Dual Core Processor 2.80 GHz
2x Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX (On SLI Motherboard)
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Here's my question, would it be better to upgrade the system by getting two new video cards, namely two new GeForce GTX 280's and still keep the Athlon 64 FX-62 processor

or...

would it be better if I kept the two cards I have now and got a new motherboard and processor?  Namely, a 780a SLI motherboard along with an AMD Phenom X4 Quad Processor (9950)

The reason it's so confusing to me is because when I look at my Performance Information Tools in Vista, it shows a score of 5.3.  My processor score is 5.3 and my graphics score is 5.9.  However, I've read so much that says processors don't make that much of a difference in gaming these days though.  Is that right?

your processor is fine, 2.8 GHz is pretty fast, and not a whole lot of programs support quad core, so your duo is fine.

I would get the Video cards.

and this prolly shoulda been posted in the hardware forum

Originally posted by gnomexxx

I am wanting to upgrade my system.  Here's what I have right now...

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Current System
AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 Dual Core Processor 2.80 GHz
2x Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX (On SLI Motherboard)
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Here's my question, would it be better to upgrade the system by getting two new video cards, namely two new GeForce GTX 280's and still keep the Athlon 64 FX-62 processor

or...

would it be better if I kept the two cards I have now and got a new motherboard and processor?  Namely, a 780a SLI motherboard along with an AMD Phenom X4 Quad Processor (9950)

 

 

The reason it's so confusing to me is because when I look at my Performance Information Tools in Vista, it shows a score of 5.3.  My processor score is 5.3 and my graphics score is 5.9.  However, I've read so much that says processors don't make that much of a difference in gaming these days though.  Is that right?

Hardware Is Down a section ;p

And It depends on the game your playing. If its your Processor Id update it first. But if your ram is less than a 800 then Id wory about that..

Tell us ALL of your system specks ;p

Originally posted by tvalentine

your processor is fine, 2.8 GHz is pretty fast, and not a whole lot of programs support quad core, so your duo is fine.

I would get the Video cards.

and this prolly shoulda been posted in the hardware forum

I never noticed that hardware section, as much as I've been coming here. 

My bad.

Maybe a mod will move it down.  Ooops.

Thanks for your suggestion though.

your computer is fine. save your money.

Your SLI combo can pretty much slice through any new game out there on high settings.  Getting two 280's would be overkill (if youve got the money to spend go for it)

I would wait for the price on the 280's to go down.  The price of anything electronic gets cut in half in about 6mon-year anyways.

ahh nm, I just read that you already had two 8800's...I was going to recommend just putting another 8800 in there

To be honest, I don't think that you should do anything with your video cards....two 8800's will cut through anything on the market today...How are you set for ram? 

I would swap the motherboard and processor if you really want to upgrade.  However, upgrading isn't necessary.  The reason why would be to save power considering you are running multiple 95w processors.

The 2 8800GT in SLi is reasonably powerful compared to modern cards.

His Processor isn't a Dual core is its a quad core.  Its 2 procs with 2 cores each.

Originally posted by Draenor

ahh nm, I just read that you already had two 8800's...I was going to recommend just putting another 8800 in there

 

To be honest, I don't think that you should do anything with your video cards....two 8800's will cut through anything on the market today...How are you set for ram? 

 

I have 4 gig of DDR2 6400 RAM.  I am running Vista 64 bit, do you think that is enough?  I also bought one of those flash drives that does the ReadyBoost as well.

You know what makes me mad about those 8800's though?  I like to play Vanguard and the STILL have not fixed the bug where the 8800's don't show the weather.  I don't get that.  Oh well.