you think its worth it?
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (Upgrade after 12 hours of work this weekend)
and
eVGA 7900GTO (about $50 to upgrade from my current card)
think its worth it till C2Q comes out?
had to edit out the X1900XT 512, cause it's about $100 over budget
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If you're happy with spending the money on that (not criticising you or anything), then go for it.
Although, to be honest, I would downgrade the CPU. You have a SWEET motherboard, and can easily overclock a low-end Athlon to the speed of a high-end Athlon. Look, I can overclock a X2 3800 to 2.45GHz, overnight-dual-prime stable (incredibly stable) - faster than a 4800 at stock speeds. All without raising any voltages (and it's raising voltages that damages components).
You may as well go for a 4400X2. Same amount of cache, but cheaper.
Regarding the GPU, I would again say get the cheapest 7900GT you can find, and overclock it. Then theres no need to buy a higher-clocked card for more.
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well
Cheapest 7900GT: $239
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814139004
7900GTO: $253
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130065
the 7900GTO is a downclocked 7900GTX... and it has 512MB of RAM, compared to the 7900GT's 256...
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7900GTO is a wicked deal right now, go for it if you can afford it.
The processor...do you honestly think it is holding you back? If you don't have to, don't bother. Wait for the next big thing to come along and waste money on it.
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I would get a new video card, but not a new processor. In fact in most games you will probbaly notice a slow down since the X2 runs at a lower clock.
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my 4000+? simply put: sometimes.... while trying to encode video, compress songs, rip songs, burn 2 DVD's at once and listening to music, my processor boggs down... I know it's also harddrive related, but im basically getting the processor for free and the videocard for $50 like i said...
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