Building a PC, quad core.. 4GB memory..

I have a 7950GT do I need to up grade ?

Will I gain anything from paying out or will my card do the jobby ??

opinions ?

 

Depends what you are doing.

I've gone from a 7900 GT to a 3870 (similar spec rig) and there was a huge difference in Crysis & Cod4.

I'm still on XP, so not seen the DX10 goodies yet. . ..

 

hmmm

See I have £600 to buy:

A motherboard
CPU
Memory
Harddrive
DVD RW
and if needed the Card ... so its all about needs

 

I'd not bother with gfx if that's the case.

Sit tight on the 7950 for 6 months and upgrade then

 

I can buy this lot with my budget

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

MSI P35 Diamond Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard

Gainward BLISS GeForce 8800 GT Golden Sample 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (4718462008941)

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz SLI-Ready Edition Low Latency Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2N800SR4GK)

Samsung SH-S203NRSMN 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Beige/Black/Silver) - Retail

Western Digital Raptor 36GB 10000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM (WD360ADFD)

 

If I was buying a new graphics card, I'd most likely get a 8800GT. I'm making do with my ATI 1950 for now though.

I'd get a bigger hard disk though. 36GB is nothing these days (or is that a typo?).

 

small but very fast

 

Think they do a 120gb raptor now though its like 200 quid

Tony

 

Raptor my friend