Hi everyone
I have a computer I use mainly for web surfing and gaming. It's a 3 year old machine
E6700 core 2 duo @ 2.66 Ghz
4 Gb DDR2-800 Ram
Asus P6w DH-Deluxe Motherboard
Enermax Galaxy 1000 PSU and Silverstone TJ-09 Case
150 Gb Raptor HDD as primary HDD
Had a 8800 GTX that I swapped a few weeks ago for a Radeon 5870.
I am still running XP but I am going to switch to Windows 7 (My copy just arrived by mail)
Just by changing my graphics card, the FPS in my games improved a lot. In some games , my FPS almost doubled (like in Risen).
I was thinking of upgrading to a core i7 920 with 6gb of Corsair Dominator ddr3 Ram and an asus p6t Deluxe V2, and an intel-m g2 SSD, and trying to OC it. But I am wondering if it will really be worth upgrading to a core i7. Will I see a big improvement compared to my current build? I am hesitating now between just getting the intel SSD before I install windows 7, or going with the full upgrade.
Any advice will be welcome.
Thanks
I have a computer I use mainly for web surfing and gaming. It's a 3 year old machine
E6700 core 2 duo @ 2.66 Ghz
4 Gb DDR2-800 Ram
Asus P6w DH-Deluxe Motherboard
Enermax Galaxy 1000 PSU and Silverstone TJ-09 Case
150 Gb Raptor HDD as primary HDD
Had a 8800 GTX that I swapped a few weeks ago for a Radeon 5870.
I am still running XP but I am going to switch to Windows 7 (My copy just arrived by mail)
Just by changing my graphics card, the FPS in my games improved a lot. In some games , my FPS almost doubled (like in Risen).
I was thinking of upgrading to a core i7 920 with 6gb of Corsair Dominator ddr3 Ram and an asus p6t Deluxe V2, and an intel-m g2 SSD, and trying to OC it. But I am wondering if it will really be worth upgrading to a core i7. Will I see a big improvement compared to my current build? I am hesitating now between just getting the intel SSD before I install windows 7, or going with the full upgrade.
Any advice will be welcome.
Thanks