Should i Upgrade my PC? Or wait?

This is not a common question as you think, i want to upgrade my PC right now, because you have Jericho coming out now, and all other graphic eating games, like Crysis. I have a PC in mind and all, which is a GREAT PC. But my mother (i'm 17 mind you) says that i should wait for next year until my Now PC can't run any games, and the age is taking him now. I want to upgrade my PC for Crysis, Jericho and other games that i have forgotten. And my brother is Neutral btw.

So what should i do? I really want to upgrade right away, or should i wait for next year? (Poll may count)

k, the old are specs are:

Processor: Processsor: AMD Athlon[tm] 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.21Ghz

RAM: 1.5Gig (couldn't find the type of RAM strangely :S)

Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT 512MB

And the rest i can't find. But it's old now.

k, the old are specs are:

Processor: Processsor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.21Ghz

RAM: 1.5Gig (couldn't find the type of RAM strangely :S)

Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT 512MB

And the rest i can't find. But it's old now.

ele975

That is still a good gaming rig. You forgot to include the budget.

If you upgrade now you could get the Q6600, 2gb ddr2 ram, 8800gtx, but next year you can get a Q9300, (ram can be the same) and a 9800gtx spending the same amount of money.

www.crucial.com has a good system scanner that will tell you lots of stuff about your mobo... just hit their main page and look for the scanner doohickie.. very useful for a quick breakdown, especially if, like me, you haven't saved the original box your memory and cpu came in.

Cheers!

I think that you should wait till Q22008 or even Q3! Because I bought my PC in June 2007 and will upgrade it in June 2008 with the newest videocard and CPU I won't touch the ram !

So wait till Q1 2008 and see if there is a good choice about new videocards, or wait a lil' bit longer till Q2 or Q3( ya I know that it is so much but you will be happy then with your new pc ;) )

meh I'd wait at least until penryn phenom are out and the 8800 GT/ GTS revision are out as well as the HD38xx from AMD.

I would just play games like bioshock, the orange box, and COD4 which your rig can handle, and then upgrade your computer in Q1 to a 9800 GT/GTX (and new CPU/memory/mobo/PSU too of course).

Is your video card AGP or pci-express? http://www.gamespot.com/features/6153327/index.html Even if you have an AGP card, you can run new games ok. If you have a pci-express video card, all you need is a better card, another 512 R.A.M. to go to 2 gigs, and a good power supply to have a great gaming machine. You C.P.U. is fine as I have the same x2 4200 on an am2 board.

roulettethedog

cool, and my Graphic Card has a PCI Express, is that good or bad?

[QUOTE="roulettethedog"]

Is your video card AGP or pci-express? http://www.gamespot.com/features/6153327/index.html Even if you have an AGP card, you can run new games ok. If you have a pci-express video card, all you need is a better card, another 512 R.A.M. to go to 2 gigs, and a good power supply to have a great gaming machine. You C.P.U. is fine as I have the same x2 4200 on an am2 board.

ele975

cool, and my Graphic Card has a PCI Express, is that good or bad?

With pci e you can upgrade to a better video card without changing your cpu, mobo and ram, but that wouldnt be a good choice because the newer video card may be bottlenecked by the other parts and the performance will be similar unless you overclock.

[QUOTE="ele975"][QUOTE="roulettethedog"]

Is your video card AGP or pci-express? http://www.gamespot.com/features/6153327/index.html Even if you have an AGP card, you can run new games ok. If you have a pci-express video card, all you need is a better card, another 512 R.A.M. to go to 2 gigs, and a good power supply to have a great gaming machine. You C.P.U. is fine as I have the same x2 4200 on an am2 board.

wklzip

cool, and my Graphic Card has a PCI Express, is that good or bad?

With pci e you can upgrade to a better video card without changing your cpu, mobo and ram, but that wouldnt be a good choice because the newer video card may be bottlenecked by the other parts and the performance will be similar unless you overclock.

ye, but i think i'm gonna wait till' next year Q1 08. So i get can get my hands on the 8900 series. Yea... Norway should get a smack in the head and sharpen up when it comes to computer parts

Pci-express is a good thing. If you have a 939 socket mother board, you should just get the replacement for the 8800gts 320 when it comes out and then replace your mobo when that card struggles. Games are only starting to recommend dual core C.P.U.'s now. If (like me) you have an AM2 socket mobo, you can milk it for at least 2 more years.roulettethedog

2 moreyears eh? But i tried the Jericho demo on my PC, and i couldn't run it on medium (i think) so games are coming out that is chewing ma card up.