Recently decided to upgrade my ageing computer for X3 Rebirth but I'm not sure which would be the bottleneck between the graphics card and CPU. The specs for my comp at the minute are:
Processor:Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 @2.66GHz
Motherboard5N32-SLI SE Deluxe
[http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5N32SLI_SE_Deluxe/#overview]
Memory: 2x 1GB DDR2 @ 333MHz
GPU: Nvidea Geforce 7900GTX 512Mb (not sure on power)
Monitor resolution:1600x900
My plan was to first upgrade the RAM to 4 x2gb ddr2 @ 800 MHz as I assumed this was the worst of the three. The other two I'm at a complete loss at, at first I thought buying another of the 7900 and putting in parallel with the one I've got might work [crossfire?]. But I'm not sure whether just buying a newer,better graphics card and replacing it would be better value for performance. Finally I got to site which said that quad core is the way to go, in addition the same site said that ddr2 might actually be the bottleneck, even after putting it up to 8gb total...after this i felt a bit lost whether to buy a new graphics card,CPU or buy a whole new motherboard.
Sorry for the broadness of the question, any help would be greatly appreciated, I was going to put £50 for the memory and up to £200 for the grahpics card/CPU/other.
Processor:Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 @2.66GHz
Motherboard5N32-SLI SE Deluxe
[http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5N32SLI_SE_Deluxe/#overview]
Memory: 2x 1GB DDR2 @ 333MHz
GPU: Nvidea Geforce 7900GTX 512Mb (not sure on power)
Monitor resolution:1600x900
My plan was to first upgrade the RAM to 4 x2gb ddr2 @ 800 MHz as I assumed this was the worst of the three. The other two I'm at a complete loss at, at first I thought buying another of the 7900 and putting in parallel with the one I've got might work [crossfire?]. But I'm not sure whether just buying a newer,better graphics card and replacing it would be better value for performance. Finally I got to site which said that quad core is the way to go, in addition the same site said that ddr2 might actually be the bottleneck, even after putting it up to 8gb total...after this i felt a bit lost whether to buy a new graphics card,CPU or buy a whole new motherboard.
Sorry for the broadness of the question, any help would be greatly appreciated, I was going to put £50 for the memory and up to £200 for the grahpics card/CPU/other.