I am thinking of upgrading my current system.
I currently have a Q6600 with 4gigs of ram running Vista 32 bit and a 500 watt psu. I am using an 8800gt 512 mb on 19 in monitor at a res of 1280 x 1024.
I am thinking of upgrading to a larger 23 in monitor with a res of 1920 x 1080 and upgrading my graphics card to an 4890 1 gig.
My questions are: Will my current system and psu be adequate? How much of a performance gain will I receive?
I play mostly FPS type games and I like to turn on as much graphics quality as possible.
I really don't want to have to upgrade any other parts of my system except possibly (but highly unlikely) the psu. Mem is at max and I would buy a whole new system before I would upgrade too much. I thought about upgrading to Vista 64 bit, but Windows 7 is so close now.
Hoping I can get some more life out of my system without having to drop a load of cash for a whole new rig.
Thanks!
I currently have a Q6600 with 4gigs of ram running Vista 32 bit and a 500 watt psu. I am using an 8800gt 512 mb on 19 in monitor at a res of 1280 x 1024.
I am thinking of upgrading to a larger 23 in monitor with a res of 1920 x 1080 and upgrading my graphics card to an 4890 1 gig.
My questions are: Will my current system and psu be adequate? How much of a performance gain will I receive?
I play mostly FPS type games and I like to turn on as much graphics quality as possible.
I really don't want to have to upgrade any other parts of my system except possibly (but highly unlikely) the psu. Mem is at max and I would buy a whole new system before I would upgrade too much. I thought about upgrading to Vista 64 bit, but Windows 7 is so close now.
Hoping I can get some more life out of my system without having to drop a load of cash for a whole new rig.
Thanks!