In some games the dual to quad would get you more then increased speeds of RAM. Depends if its threaded for that and going up in speed might get you some performance like maybe 1-2fps.
RAM and CPU fps effect
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ok.
is that the general opinion?
Originally Posted by Maddog7771 the only real jump in performance you will see is if you go from ddr2 to ddr3 as far as ram goes so your best bet would be cpu |
is that the general opinion?
Going from DDR2 667 to DDR2 800 you won't see a FPS gain, been there done that
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going from a dual to a quad you will see a difference in some games, probably the newer ones because there optimized for four cores ^_^
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Thanks a lot!!
definitely going to upgrade cpu before ram.
but as you said, i will get a sound card first =)
Originally Posted by Asus Mobile Power I will start with some generalities. RAM unless you can keep the same timings you will not gain going to 1066Mhz. If you can keep the same timings you will get little to no benefit as 80Mhz is not the bottleneck. OK on to CPU? Well mostly at super high resolutions Quad does help on some not on others. I mean above 1900x1200. And further we are talking best case 5-7 FPS at best. Not exactly great improvement? And that is not on your system as I am talking higher resolution than you have. Your GPU does seem to be the very best component. I suspect CPU could be the next upgrade. But short of benchmarks doubt you could tell. I could look for the high resolution Duo vs Quad benchmarks but not easy to find. I hope you just trust me? If I have not said clearly enough? DDR2 to DDR3 with looser timings gains you nothing. Your system looks fine to me. That said your next upgrade is CPU. Then RAM then HDD. But please buy a Sound card before anything else. Your system is balanced nothing needs to be done. 3 FPS does nothing when avg is 60, heck even 35 means little. |
definitely going to upgrade cpu before ram.
but as you said, i will get a sound card first =)
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