Rough idea on performance increase?

[Melhisedek]

Hello there folks, I just wanna see if I can justify upgrade at this time. I would use the rig for gaming only.

Assume I have 8800GT mildly overclocked in both rigs:

Rig I have:

Opty 165 @ 2.6 Gig
2 Gig RAM

Rig I would like to have

Q6600 @ 3.0 (hope I can overclock it that far)
2 Gig DDR2 RAM

What kind of real life gains I would see from upgrading?

I would game at 1680x1050 with as AA and AF whenever possible btw :)
Thank you for your time!

[4od]

For gaming, the performance increase would be pretty large. Maybe like +10% for your FPS, depending on the game.

But for everything else, the difference would be massive.

[jason4207]

It depends if the game can make use of 4 cores, but yes the performance would increase either way.

You should be able to get a Q6600 over 3GHz easily. Even 3.2 would be easy, and 3.6 seems to be the sweet spot.

Just get a good P35 MoBo, and you'll be all set at 3.6GHz for 24/7 use.

What kind of RAM do you have? DDR or DDR2?

[Evilsizer]

if you dont play lost planet now then a quad isnt worth it. lost planet is the only game to show a 30-50 fps increase. this is oc to 3.6ghz vs a dually at 3.8ghz, also in older games the fps difference between the 2 i stated is 2-7FPS. you computer is good enough for while, the only way i would see upgrading now is if your prepping for Crysis...

45nm quads is going to be the ticket till Socket B in q3/q4-08.

[Melhisedek]

Thing is I decided to get a new graphics card... nvidia one as I can't do a thing with my 1900XT in Linux (I wont game everything in Linux). So I though I might as well upgrade while I'm at it. I wasn't sure about the performance increase tbh. It has been a while and I'm out of the loop so to say.

If performance increase is bigger than 20% in games I might go for the total upgrade, anything less would be a waste in my situation tbh. I was thinking of getting quad core to be future proof. As I'm getting settled now I wont be upgrading for a while. But if bang for the buck is better with dual core I'll go for that one instead.

Not really sure what to do yet, hope for some advice I guess :)

I have DDR RAM on this board, so I would need to get the whole kit to upgrade.

[Evilsizer]

go with the video card upgrade and wait out till january for a mobo/cpu/ram upgrade...

[NettieZoom]

In all honesty i dont see much diference between my intel C2D and X2 rigs when using the same video card, sure i notice a big increase when doing video editing etc with the C2D but just for gaming i cant tell the diference.

[Evilsizer]

if your running 1600x1200 with aa/af on your not going to notice cause with all the extras on the video card is the bottleneck... if you run with vsync your not going to either cause if the video card does over 100fps average and you use vsync based on ur monitor/lcd you are going to be under 100fps...

[Melhisedek]

Well GPU upgrade it is than ;)
Thanks Evilsizer!