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l33t-g4m3r wrote:The whole X2 bashfest here is a joke best ignored. The X2 doesn't perform like a 486 regardless of what some people say, nor have games progressed so far as to need more than the 2 cores on the X2. The videocard will be the biggest performance leap, not the cpu
l33t-g4m3r wrote:I would just like to ask the earlier posters in this thread to look what you have done.
JustAnEngineer wrote:I'd still say the same.Don't put any money into socket-939 components in this decade. Upgrading your graphics card to a Radeon HD7770 is fine. If you're still not happy with game performance at 1080p with the new graphics card, that would be the time to upgrade your CPU and motherboard to LGA1155.
JustAnEngineer wrote:l33t-g4m3r wrote:I would just like to ask the earlier posters in this thread to look what you have done.JustAnEngineer wrote:I'd still say the same.Don't put any money into socket-939 components in this decade. Upgrading your graphics card to a Radeon HD7770 is fine. If you're still not happy with game performance at 1080p with the new graphics card, that would be the time to upgrade your CPU and motherboard to LGA1155.
DPete27 wrote:A system upgrade is really what needed to happen. This just goes to show that you can only make so many suggestions and point the OP at so many factual arguments. But in the end, they are the ones that have to make the decision and purchase the components. I think the FX-4170 choice was okay. Sure, the upgrade order got flip-flopped, but at least the GPU is still scheduled for the holidays.
Airmantharp wrote:Just don't expect the world of it
zeta wrote:wondering if the nVidia Geforce GT 640 was compatible since it was a v3.0 card. It turns out it works with no problems at all.
l33t-g4m3r wrote:I would just like to ask the earlier posters in this thread to look what you have done. This thread was originally about helping someone upgrade a terribly outdated video card for BF3, and instead of recommending a video card, you people completely derailed this thread into system building. Consequently, the OP has went system building instead of upgrading his video card, and not only that he went with a FX-4170 Zambezi instead of a A10-5800K Trinity or FX-6300 Vishera, and still does not have a new video card. This likely would have worked out a lot better the other way around. Good job people.
zeta wrote:I just wanted to share with the world, since this is one of the forum posts I came across that contained the information I was looking for. I have an Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 and I was tired of using my PCI Express v1.0 video card and was wondering if the nVidia Geforce GT 640 was compatible since it was a v3.0 card. It turns out it works with no problems at all.
Ustauk wrote:See this for GTX650 numbers and compare that to the numbers in this article. Pay close attention to the results for the GT250 as it is (more or less) the same as an 8800GT only somewhat faster. You'll see that the GT250 is pretty outmatched in every respect and you should expect the 8800GT to do even worse.Is either card a worthwhile upgrade to an 8800 gt?
mortifiedPenguin wrote:Ustauk wrote:See this for GTX650 numbers and compare that to the numbers in this article. Pay close attention to the results for the GT250 as it is (more or less) the same as an 8800GT only somewhat faster. You'll see that the GT250 is pretty outmatched in every respect and you should expect the 8800GT to do even worse.Is either card a worthwhile upgrade to an 8800 gt?
Also compare those results to this article for 7770 benchmarks.
Airmantharp wrote:Looks good! Put some screws on that FX, should be able to complement the GT650 fairly well.