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Video card or Processor

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which should i do?

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so i'm wondering, what are you's guys opinions. i only have enough money for 1 of the two, and i'm not sure which i should upgrade to. should i
A) upgrade my video card/s and sli them? or
B) upgrade to a dual core processor.

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Post by lostclimategames »

i voted videocard, although it really depends on what you have in your system currently.
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What's your current video card / processor.
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Post by rooly »

my processor is a p4 2.66 capable of hyperthreading and 64bit
my video card i an nvidia gforce 6200 +64mb vram

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okay, so the video card only cost 30$'s. get over it!
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go for teh card.
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Post by Midnight »

ATI 9550 256mb shader something
2.4 p4
512 ram

I need a whole new pc.. anyways my card sucks.. save up and get a whole new pc when crap is cheaper.

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Post by lostclimategames »

definately, your processor is fine for probably about any application as long as you have enough ram and a fast enough videocard, most people dont understand how well 2ghz and up actually works when accented by enough of the other hardware
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Post by kburkhart84 »

lostclimategames wrote:definately, your processor is fine for probably about any application as long as you have enough ram and a fast enough videocard, most people dont understand how well 2ghz and up actually works when accented by enough of the other hardware
This is true. I was using a 1.6 Gig pentium 4, and once I upgraded to an ATI 9200(yeah, back then it was an upgrade), my games were running like nothing. 3dsmax 8 works fine on this computer, and I even get bumpmapping, but only with DX, not OpenGL. The processor wasn't holding me up, rather the crappy intel onboard thingy. Video cards usually make much more difference, even if you are runing a processor like pentium 3, if you have a good vid card, then a lot of things still run fine.
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