I'm doing some upgrading to my rig, and I wanted to know what people thought, and if you think ill see a great increase in fps in games like GTA IV, Crysis, ARMA 2 etc.
My old build:
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
Phenom 965 3.4 GHz
Gigabyte MA785GM MOBO ~ Only supports DDR2
Radeon 5770 XXX Edition - 128bit 900/1300
WD HDD 7200 RPM (small cache size, cant remember though)
4 GB, limited to 3.3GB G.Skill 800 MHz ram
New Build
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Phenom 965 Black Edition 3.4 GHz
Corsair H50 Water cooling (Planning to overclock around 3.8 GHz)
XFX Radeon 5870 1GB 256bit 850/1200 (900/1300 overclock)
VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM 300gb HDD 16mb Cache
2x2gb G.Skill Ripjaws series ram 1333mhz DDR3 (Latency-8)
Asus AMD AM3 880G MOBO
My old build:
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
Phenom 965 3.4 GHz
Gigabyte MA785GM MOBO ~ Only supports DDR2
Radeon 5770 XXX Edition - 128bit 900/1300
WD HDD 7200 RPM (small cache size, cant remember though)
4 GB, limited to 3.3GB G.Skill 800 MHz ram
New Build
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Phenom 965 Black Edition 3.4 GHz
Corsair H50 Water cooling (Planning to overclock around 3.8 GHz)
XFX Radeon 5870 1GB 256bit 850/1200 (900/1300 overclock)
VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM 300gb HDD 16mb Cache
2x2gb G.Skill Ripjaws series ram 1333mhz DDR3 (Latency-8)
Asus AMD AM3 880G MOBO