Upgrade Path

[Intelman07]

I'm stuck in a strange situation right now, I do not believe my sig is too updated but I can update you now.

My desktop:

AMD Opteron 170 @ 2.7Ghz
DFI Nforce 4 Ultra-D
2GB DDR Ram
Random hard drives doesn't matter
x1900xt 512MB
Creative X-FI xtremegamer

Now I'm stuck on a socket 939, there is no upgrade path, when I got this machine, AMD was the thing, Conroe was not around yet. This computer isn't really slow, but I do game a lot, particularly supreme commander which tears this machine apart. My friend has almost the same PC but with a 2.13Ghz Core 2, whos game runs at least 10 frames per second higher than mine (same video card with 256mb ram).

I have some money, but I do not know if I want to upgrade my video card to a 8800GT, which in benchmarks is about 100% times as fast as my card, or to upgrade to a core 2 platform with DDR2 and the lot. I can't do both, but I can do either or and I just need some input as to what to do. Supreme Commander is too slow as it is, and the machine does run kinda warm right now, in the summer it is murder in my room. Thansk for your input, it is greatly appreciated.

 

[John]

I was in a similar situation since I have an x2 3800+ Toledo @ 2.7GHz, 7950GT, same mobo, sound card, and amount of ram. I opted for the 8800GT since it required less money and offers more FPS than upgrading to C2D/C2Q + DDR2.

 

[Intelman07]

I see, thanks, i'm glad someone else had that issue. I'm aiming for around ~250 then, if only there were some in stock, any model reconmendations? They seem to vary in clock speed a lot.

 

[John]

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2122444&enterthread=y

600/1500/900 is stock