What to upgrade

[thegeek574]

Hey everyone,
A while ago, I asked what graphics card to upgrade to, and i was thinking. would a SSD or a new graphics card (5750) be a better upgrade?
I am looking at the mushkin 40gb
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820226168
and the sapphire HD 5750
http://http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102859&cm_re=5750-_-14-102-859-_-Product
thanks,
Steven

[wonkanoby]

what o/s are you running

im finding it hard not to keep run out of space on a 60gb ssd with windows 7

[thegeek574]

XP. i would have a 320gb drive for data.

[wonkanoby]

should be ok then

[zetachi]

Gamer? If so I'd do a GPU upgrade 40 GB SSD not going to get you much space. What is the main use of the PC?

[thegeek574]

It is for gaming, but mainly Flatout 2, Starcraft 2( at as high of settings as possible) and Halo 2

[xiz0r]

ssd --> faster loading time
GPU --> more frame per second

[thegeek574]

thanks

[Poci]

I just saw your specs and what I really think you need to upgrade is that X2 6000. Even if you get a 5750 that will be bottlenecked a bit by the CPU.
The 4650 you have on the other hand should do ok with a newer CPU.

[notdrugged]

It is very possible that a CPU upgrade may give you the most results altogether given how most popular games tend to use the CPU at 100%. Despite the reports that AMD has supposedly never changed their architecture, there are key upgrades to the cache design of phenoms and it definately wouldn't hurt to throw in an additional L3 along with at least a couple extra processing cores.

However, although your GPU is of a decent generation, the rest of the card is stuck in the 1970s.

So, the choice you're making is between getting results now and the best way to spend your money. May not be the best choice to go CPU if you know you're going to upgrade it within 6 months. But then, you may not need to. You wouldn't want to force yourself to upgrade after spending a chunk on a video card.

But then, It's not a bad idea to get the video card later unless you're hell-bent on going bulldozer or whatever that thingmajig Intel is up to.

I believe you won't get your boat floated without upgrading both (CPU + Video). That's just how it tends to be when both of them are lacking.

[*just noticed] And looking at a 5750? I would definately just go CPU upgrade. That's not much of an upgrade on the video card. You probably won't even see a difference otherwise.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103675

Or if you have to upgrade the video card you'll have to spend about the same money. A budget of only $100 won't upgrade anything for you. A 5750 is literally almost the same video card as the one you already have but with DDR5 right? Not good enough. Add a 256-bit memory interface and you're talking. Memory interface is huge on video cards.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121376