what to upgrade?

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ZenPirate

ZenPirate

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I am thinking of purchasing one of the following components to upgrade in my system. I'm looking to get a few opinions before i pull the trigger.

Current:
C2D e6300 1.8ghz @ 3.15ghz
Nvidia 9800gt

Replace with one of the following:
C2Q Q9550
ati HD 5850


??

(I'm leaning towards the CPU now for bandwidth, and the graphics card later)


What say you BuF?
 
NRG

NRG

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You probably wouldn't see too much of a bottleneck if you really wanted to get the video card first. That's normally much more obvious in Crossfire/SLI systems with slower CPU's.

But yeah, CPU first and GPU second is still the way to go if you're definitely getting both.
 
JohnDoe641

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Definitely get the CPU first.

I just switched over my Xeon 3110 dual core to a Xeon X3370 quad core and even though they're the same clock speed, the extra two cores for the work I'm doing....... it makes a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge difference.
 
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