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**b3JOkwXL** · 10-21-2010, 01:12 PM

A new CPU would help allot though, a quad clocked over 3ghz would open up the GPU more and with today's games it would boost performance quite allot, but it's not cheap even on a 775 to go to a quad from the c2d. Ideally would like a q9450, but meh they still go for £200 new and £140/£150 second hand, if going to upgrade to that might as well just go full out on a i5 or something but then comes all the added cost of that to.

Eh? Most games today are GPU limited and have been for a few years (since core2 I would say lol). I recently bought a cheap Q9550 because I had the upgrade itch and I didn't want my dual to be the limit when I upgrade the GPU but so far, there's not much of difference except when I play games, surf or study the CPU usage is 5-10% instead of 15-30%.

In your position, I would wait to upgrade completely. Let's divide upgrades into three parts; budget, gaming and enthusiast. Obviously the latter is too expensive and gaming as well unless you find a good deal for the GPU and CPU which I would say is the most important components for gaming. Budget could work but certainly won't be that much of an upgrade, just newer or exchanged parts of the same performance.

10-21-2010, 01:12 PM	#21
b3JOkwXL Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 497 Senior Member	A new CPU would help allot though, a quad clocked over 3ghz would open up the GPU more and with today's games it would boost performance quite allot, but it's not cheap even on a 775 to go to a quad from the c2d. Ideally would like a q9450, but meh they still go for £200 new and £140/£150 second hand, if going to upgrade to that might as well just go full out on a i5 or something but then comes all the added cost of that to. Eh? Most games today are GPU limited and have been for a few years (since core2 I would say lol). I recently bought a cheap Q9550 because I had the upgrade itch and I didn't want my dual to be the limit when I upgrade the GPU but so far, there's not much of difference except when I play games, surf or study the CPU usage is 5-10% instead of 15-30%. In your position, I would wait to upgrade completely. Let's divide upgrades into three parts; budget, gaming and enthusiast. Obviously the latter is too expensive and gaming as well unless you find a good deal for the GPU and CPU which I would say is the most important components for gaming. Budget could work but certainly won't be that much of an upgrade, just newer or exchanged parts of the same performance.
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