I was just going to ask a few questions, and make sure that I am doing all of this at the right time.
About 8 months ago I upgraded my whole system to an AMD64 3000+, shuttle MOBO, Gig of RAM, and 2 80GB SATA HD's. Well, now that the game Oblivion has come out (I have a radeon 9550 btw) and since I didnt upgrade my VC with everything else, I am kind of in a delima. Originaly I was just going to buy a high end AGP card since my motherboard doesnt support PCI-E. However, coming up pretty soon I may be getting quite a bit of money, and I am thinking about upgrading my system again to a 939 board with PCI-E, and getting a dual core AMD 64 processor, and a Radeon x1900 xtx VC.
So, here are my questions for you guys.
I have heard there are some problems with the dual core processors right now, and that you dont really get a whole lot of performance out of them compared to regular single cores. So, if this is true. Should I upgrade all of this now, or should I wait untill there is a significant change in the hardware so that I get the full proformance of an X2. And also, in the realm of videocards. I work for Circuit City, so I get a 40% off accomidation on all of ATI's cards. Which is the real reason I am considering buying an x1900 xtx, but is it really worth the money? Or should I just dump this whole plan of huge upgrades and buy a decent AGP card, untill the dual cores, and videocards get upgraded?
Thanks in advance,
V
About 8 months ago I upgraded my whole system to an AMD64 3000+, shuttle MOBO, Gig of RAM, and 2 80GB SATA HD's. Well, now that the game Oblivion has come out (I have a radeon 9550 btw) and since I didnt upgrade my VC with everything else, I am kind of in a delima. Originaly I was just going to buy a high end AGP card since my motherboard doesnt support PCI-E. However, coming up pretty soon I may be getting quite a bit of money, and I am thinking about upgrading my system again to a 939 board with PCI-E, and getting a dual core AMD 64 processor, and a Radeon x1900 xtx VC.
So, here are my questions for you guys.
I have heard there are some problems with the dual core processors right now, and that you dont really get a whole lot of performance out of them compared to regular single cores. So, if this is true. Should I upgrade all of this now, or should I wait untill there is a significant change in the hardware so that I get the full proformance of an X2. And also, in the realm of videocards. I work for Circuit City, so I get a 40% off accomidation on all of ATI's cards. Which is the real reason I am considering buying an x1900 xtx, but is it really worth the money? Or should I just dump this whole plan of huge upgrades and buy a decent AGP card, untill the dual cores, and videocards get upgraded?
Thanks in advance,
V