What to upgrade?

[davegl1234]

Hi, I am thinking of upgrading a pc i built a while back, but am unsure where the bottleneck is.

System:
Asus M3N-HD/HDMI
Phenom 9950BE & 3.1
4 GB Corsair Dominators
Asus Xonar Sound card
GTX 260 SLI
Corsair 750W PSU

Main use is gaming and I'm generally happy with it, but a bit annoyed i am getting barely any increase out of the second GTX 260. On the crysis benchmark i get about a 30% increase in SLI and with COD5 I get about a 10% increase at most.

My first thought is the cpu is probably holding it back? But 3.1 is the max i can overclock it to...even with 1.44 Vcore it isn't stable at 3.2

My motherboard does support the AM3 so i guess the newer phenom processors would be the best bet?

Cheers

 

[aevm]

A Phenom II 940 would help in some games, sure, but don't expect a spectacular improvement. I'm not convinced that the Phenom II 955 would work with your MB. Try to make sure it does before you buy, OK?

Try overclocking the GPUs.

 

[davegl1234]

Thanks for the reply, i just checked the asus website and they only mention support for the 940....just trying to make my second 260 worth it.

i just checked fallout 3 SLI and it was better without it, which is annoying.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

The only thing I can see is the GPU , everything else looks fine.