Depends on what you are doing. The pure performance upgrade from the dual core to an i7 is crazy. i7 + mb + 6 gig ram then later do 6 gig ram + video card.
I do a lot of photo editing / video editing and mainly just EQ but I do play other games from time to time
Well I finally after all of this time decided its time to upgrade. I have ordered the below parts ( some items remain from page one of this post)
When I get it built ill post benchmarks and such. In fact I will run some benchmarks
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDT90ZFBGRBOX
Ultra ChillTec Black Overclocking CPU Cooler - LGA 775/1366, AM2/AM2+/AM3
Utltra 1k watt PSU
IS H583FNT1GDG Radeon HD 5830 iCooler V Turbo Video Card - 1GB DDR5, PCI-Express 2.0, FREE COD: Modern Warfare 2 X2 NOT in crossfire mode I use this to power the quad monitors below
Gaming HD
X4 Dell Monitors x4 (links bad will need to update later)
ASUS Crosshair IV Formula AM3 AMD 890FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
Case (Ultra Aluminus)
G.SKILL Trident+ Turbulence II 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) Desktop Memory Model F3-16000CL8Q-16GBTDD
relevant thread
Ah, gotcha, guess i'm a computer pack rat....save EVERYTHING
Well I finally after all of this time decided its time to upgrade. I have ordered the below parts ( some items remain from page one of this post)
When I get it built ill post benchmarks and such. In fact I will run some benchmarks
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDT90ZFBGRBOX
Ultra ChillTec Black Overclocking CPU Cooler - LGA 775/1366, AM2/AM2+/AM3
Utltra 1k watt PSU
IS H583FNT1GDG Radeon HD 5830 iCooler V Turbo Video Card - 1GB DDR5, PCI-Express 2.0, FREE COD: Modern Warfare 2 X2 NOT in crossfire mode I use this to power the quad monitors below
Gaming HD
X4 Dell Monitors x4 (links bad will need to update later)
ASUS Crosshair IV Formula AM3 AMD 890FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
Case (Ultra Aluminus)
G.SKILL Trident+ Turbulence II 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) Desktop Memory Model F3-16000CL8Q-16GBTDD
relevant thread
With the video setup non-crossfire and you using it for the 4 monitors. are you using it to extend your desktop across the 4 monitors? Sorry if it shows in the photobucket image as I can't goto photobucket on government systesm lol. And also, curious as to how much you ended up spending on your upgrades?? from the looks of it, just the processor and the video cards put you over the $800 mark. That's some Beefy RAM btw, shit -- Before mercs came out I boxed 5-6 toons at a time and my system (completely purchased from tiger direct) was $4600 or so, running Intel Quad core QX9650 ($1100 at the time), 2x EVGA 8800 Ultra ($630 Each at the time) 4x2GB DDR2 800mhz RAM (can't remember price) with 2x500GB 7200RPM Seagate with a 1000Watt modular power supply with a 790i MB and 760i Bigwater cooling. I'm pretty sure that's all. Monitor was bought seperately (was actually a TV) Which is a Panasonic 50" 1080P television and used a DVI to HDMI converter. So I can just imagine that your computer is going to bang out some performance and then some. **Note** the 2xEVGA 8800 Ultra's were running too hot when I had them both in the system, I looked into getting them waterblocks but couldn't find any, ended putting all this in a MozartTX case and maxing out the fans for a total of 10x120mm LED Fans.
I need to upgrade something serious, I wanna try those 6 core processors and upgrade to much faster RAM if nothing else. The RAM on the market these days is incredible, I just need to find a MB that will support the 2ghz RAM....