An upgrade advice?

[Skkuda]

Hello people!

 

Here is a little descrition of my PC:

 

Mainboard ASUStek M2NPV-VM

CPU AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core 3800+ @2Ghz

4 Ghz Memory RAM DDR 2

Videocard NVidia GeForce 8600 GTS OC 256 Mb GDDR 3

OS Win seven 64bits

Monitor Samsung WScreen 22" @1680x1050

 

I´m only planning to upgrade my videocard. I saw in the local store an Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT 1024 GDDR 3

Do you think I´m going to notice a difference in performance or should I stay with my 8600 GTS OC?

 

Thanks in advance!

Skkuda

[Waldo_II]

You definitely should see a performance increase. For one, all of the CPUs in the GeForce 9 series use a more recent 55nm process, so an increase in performance is inherent. Second, nVidia's x800 cards are their official "high performance" cards, whereas x600 cards are considered medium range (x500 and lower are budget/typical laptop cards).

 

If you want to take a look at some charts, Tom's Hardware usually is up to date. According to the 3DMark score I linked you to, the 9800 you plan to purchase will be at least twice as powerful as the 8600 you have now. It will be better than what is listed, mind you, because the card you saw had 1024MB of GDDR, whereas the one Tom's reviewed had 512BM of GDDR.

 

 

However, the limiting factor in your build probably isn't the graphics card. An upgrade will certainly help, but not so much in DCS: Black Shark. In most games it will help considerably, but a CPU upgrade should be higher priority, in my opinion, in DCS especially. That 3800+ of yours is definitely the bottleneck in your system. DCS relies much more on mathematics in physics and internal systems simulation, and the graphics engine is pretty crummy by today's standards, and is thus more CPU intensive and less GPU intensive. Other games, such as Call of Duty, or even ArmA 2, are the opposite.

[Skkuda]

Hi Waldo!

 

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

At this moment I cant afford to get a new Mobo & Processor so I decided to get the videocard and pray that this change work for better!

 

To moderators who moved this post, sorry, it was my fault to post this in the general forum but I thought that a lot of people are in general forums, in fact waldo answer my question in General forum!! not here.

 

but you are right. Wrong place to ask, so it´s not going to happen again.

 

Skkuda