Hello All,
Will give a brief history into my dilemma and then see what advice I get. About 5 months ago my 8800gt died. Since then I have replaced it twice and was fed up waiting for about 3 weeks to get another one. EVGA - Lifetime warranty. So I made a rash buy and bought a Gigabyte GTX 460 1gb. Well I am not seeing any increase in performance, only in a few benchmarks but all the games I've tried have actually been less. So I am looking to upgrade to take better advantage of this video card.
My Specs
CPU - C2D E4500 2.2ghz ( Overclocked up to 2.6) At best 5 fps so I've dropped it back down to stock specs
MB - Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
RAM - Corsair 1066
GPU - GTX 460 1gb
PSU - Antec Neopower 650 blue
I've been looking at the new Pentium Dual-core E6700 as a possible upgrade. Somewhere in all this I broke the clip on the PCI-X slot so I was also thinking about buying a new mbd with PCI-X 2.0 compatibility. This way I could still use the ram. I've also been looking at maybe going to an 1156 socket but normally end up hitting around $500 and I've really trying to buy a bigger tv this Christmas so doing my best to spend as little as possible and prolong the life of my current PC. So Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks!
Games I typically play - Call of Duty, MMO's - Runes of Magic, Lord of the Rings, and World of Warcraft - doing my best not to go back
P.S. - Forgot to add this, Using Vista 64bit - should I upgrade to Win 7?
Will give a brief history into my dilemma and then see what advice I get. About 5 months ago my 8800gt died. Since then I have replaced it twice and was fed up waiting for about 3 weeks to get another one. EVGA - Lifetime warranty. So I made a rash buy and bought a Gigabyte GTX 460 1gb. Well I am not seeing any increase in performance, only in a few benchmarks but all the games I've tried have actually been less. So I am looking to upgrade to take better advantage of this video card.
My Specs
CPU - C2D E4500 2.2ghz ( Overclocked up to 2.6) At best 5 fps so I've dropped it back down to stock specs
MB - Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
RAM - Corsair 1066
GPU - GTX 460 1gb
PSU - Antec Neopower 650 blue
I've been looking at the new Pentium Dual-core E6700 as a possible upgrade. Somewhere in all this I broke the clip on the PCI-X slot so I was also thinking about buying a new mbd with PCI-X 2.0 compatibility. This way I could still use the ram. I've also been looking at maybe going to an 1156 socket but normally end up hitting around $500 and I've really trying to buy a bigger tv this Christmas so doing my best to spend as little as possible and prolong the life of my current PC. So Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks!
Games I typically play - Call of Duty, MMO's - Runes of Magic, Lord of the Rings, and World of Warcraft - doing my best not to go back
P.S. - Forgot to add this, Using Vista 64bit - should I upgrade to Win 7?