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Clicker
United States1012 Posts
Pretty much I can afford 200-250ish to upgrade right now. What should that be? Current system specs CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core GIGABYTE LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 260 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 750w PSU Win 7 64 bit. Would http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127510 provide a worthwhile performance increase for streaming? Or go the route of more RAM? ;x | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
You're looking at a motherboard, memory, and processor upgrade to something like a P67 / Z68, core i5 2500k, and DDR3 if you want to improve streaming quality. | ||
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Lyzon
United Kingdom440 Posts
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
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Habel
United States123 Posts
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Sablar
Sweden880 Posts
If you still decide to get a new GPU, I don't see why it should be some pre-OCd expensive model. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125383&cm_re=560-_-14-125-383-_- is just better, and you can overclock it yourself. I think it would be a good idea to overclock your CPU, and save the money for a motherboard, ram, cpu upgrade later. | ||
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Lyzon
United Kingdom440 Posts
On June 16 2011 06:55 JingleHell wrote: What benchmark shows SSD's speeding up streams? This I've got to see. Where did I say SSD's increased stream speed? i just said it would make his pc feel snappier | ||
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FeiLing
Germany428 Posts
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jacosajh
2919 Posts
On June 16 2011 07:43 Lyzon wrote: Where did I say SSD's increased stream speed? i just said it would make his pc feel snappier He asked what he should upgrade to better his streaming. And you suggested an SSD which is not relevant to streaming. | ||
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Souljah
United States423 Posts
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Aduromors
United States279 Posts
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jacosajh
2919 Posts
You might be able to get around $150 for a Q9550 (I see some on amazon/ebay listed for $160-$240 but I don't know what the demand is, if any). That can bring your total to $350-400... enough for: 2500k - $220 P67 Mobo - $110ish 4GB DDR3 RAM - $40ish You can try to sell your old mobo/ram but I don't think you'd get much for it... if you can sell it at all. Maybe you can even try and resell the entire system itself and just start from scratch? If streaming really is that important to you, it'll be worth it. Upgrading to 2500k will bottleneck you with the 260, but it's not important if you don't need anything more than that (just playing SC2). | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
On June 16 2011 07:53 Souljah wrote: Personally, I'd get some DDR3 and save the rest of your money for a new build in the future.. At least the memory will be able to be reused. Wrong. DDR3 and DDR2 are not interchangeable. Even if the motherboard has both of these slots, you cannot use them in combination. | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On June 16 2011 08:36 skyR wrote: Wrong. DDR3 and DDR2 are not interchangeable. Even if the motherboard has both of these slots, you cannot use them in combination. To be fair, the confusion is easy to understand, if you try to find his mobo on newegg, the only one from that line they have is a new one with a DDR3 memory controller. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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writer22816
United States5775 Posts
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On June 16 2011 08:43 skyR wrote: The OP didn't specify a motherboard and only specified DDR2. He just listed Gigabyte and the P45 chipset. Gigabyte has more than a dozen P45 models. So no it's not fair >.> Yeah, I know, I'm trying to be a nicer person though. It isn't working well overall. | ||
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