Will this help ???

[Gonners]

hello not sure this is the right place but here goes i have a ASRock A785GXH/128M mobo and AMD Athlon II X2 260 cpu i know its 5 years old and out dated but i wanted to up grade it to get me by for a little longer i was thinking if i just went to a 4 core processor it would improve enough to get me by but a buddy told me that in fact it probably wouldnt help at all being its running the ddr2 ram still i can get a quad core for around 50 bucks used would it help or not is my question

 

[capt_taco]

Absolutely it will help. Going from a dual-core, especially an older one, to a quad-core is one of the better improvements you can make. That motherboard will support some pretty decent CPUs, like the 965 Black Edition, which can be had used for about $65 and is not top-end but still enough to play about any game out there reasonably.

Of course, without a decent graphics card to match, you will only improve by so much. So make sure you're at least somewhat balanced there.

DDR2 is not really a limitation, so much as the amount of DDR2 you have. If 4GB or less, you may bottleneck yourself. And since 32-bit Windows only supports 4GB, you may be at a dead-end if that's the operating system you have.

I would say go for it, as long as you can support enough RAM. If you spend a lot of money on a video card, so what; you can carry that over into your next system. But if you have to upgrade the CPU, video card, RAM, and a new copy of Windows, then you're already most of the way to a new system, so just do that instead.

 

[Gonners]

Absolutely it will help. Going from a dual-core, especially an older one, to a quad-core is one of the better improvements you can make. That motherboard will support some pretty decent CPUs, like the 965 Black Edition, which can be had used for about $65 and is not top-end but still enough to play about any game out there reasonably.

Of course, without a decent graphics card to match, you will only improve by so much. So make sure you're at least somewhat balanced there.

DDR2 is not really a limitation, so much as the amount of DDR2 you have. If 4GB or less, you may bottleneck yourself. And since 32-bit Windows only supports 4GB, you may be at a dead-end if that's the operating system you have.

I would say go for it, as long as you can support enough RAM. If you spend a lot of money on a video card, so what; you can carry that over into your next system. But if you have to upgrade the CPU, video card, RAM, and a new copy of Windows, then you're already most of the way to a new system, so just do that instead.

thanks for the info the sytem info on the pc says i have the 64 bit operating sytem and yes i only have 4 gigs of ram but it says the mobo will support up to 16 so you think if i doubled the ram and changed my cpu id be ok then oh and i have windows 7 didnt know if you needed to know that or not
i have a nivida gt640 for a gpu