- Jun 9, 2013
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I have a situation, and my knowledge of hardware isn't on point enough for me to know what to upgrade next. I put together a gaming rig a few years back on a very tight budget, then neglected to upgrade. I splurged on a new "SAPPHIRE Vapor-X 100352VXSR Radeon HD 7950" that's on it's way to me now. I know my system is going to be severely bottlenecked by the other components. They are as follows:
Asus M4A785-M (AM3 socket)
AMD Phenomx4 9850 2.5 Ghz (AM2)
4GB Single-channel DDR2 400Mhz 6cas
My feeling is that it would be a waste of money and/or time to replace any component individually. I selected these components for an upgrade:
ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z
or
ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0
with
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
AMD FX-6350 Vishera 3.9GHz
The problem is it will take me some time (months) before I could afford them all. So I have three questions. Am I doomed to wait forever to put my new card to the test, or is there a cheap fix (<$50) that would give me significant improvement for gaming? If I got the MOBO and memory but stayed with the old cpu would I still be heavily CPU bound? Does my choice for new components look good?
Asus M4A785-M (AM3 socket)
AMD Phenomx4 9850 2.5 Ghz (AM2)
4GB Single-channel DDR2 400Mhz 6cas
My feeling is that it would be a waste of money and/or time to replace any component individually. I selected these components for an upgrade:
ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z
or
ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0
with
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
AMD FX-6350 Vishera 3.9GHz
The problem is it will take me some time (months) before I could afford them all. So I have three questions. Am I doomed to wait forever to put my new card to the test, or is there a cheap fix (<$50) that would give me significant improvement for gaming? If I got the MOBO and memory but stayed with the old cpu would I still be heavily CPU bound? Does my choice for new components look good?
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