My system is a little bit dated but I think I can make some great upgrades before I look into building a NEW one. I'm a pretty avid gamer so my current setup is having more and more difficulty supporting some of the new titles. Please take a look and give me any suggestions and comments, esp if there are any bottlenecks I'm unaware of or if I could spend the money better somewhere else.

Current:
Asus M2n SLI Delux Mobo SOCKET AM2
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+
4gig (3.25) DDR2800 RAM
2x Nvidia 7900GS in SLI
WD 500gig HD
Windows XP Home (32 bit)

I plan on replacing:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
GPU: Single ATI 4890 based card... manufact undecided.

And just one question... Should I go for some of the faster AM2+ or AM3 socket CPUs? From what I could gather, the performance will suffer on an AM2 socket but I can never find out how much.

OR do I just go for an XBOX 360? Ah, decisions, decisions.and what power supply do you use? That's important when figuring out what hardware you can upgrade.I'm using an Antec 550W. It has the dual 6pin PCI-E power connectors for the vid card so I think I'll be alright there.Ya the psu should be ok. But thast cpu will be a bottleneck to that gpuQuote from: computeruler on July 30, 2009, 04:33:18 PM

Ya the psu should be ok. But thast cpu will be a bottleneck to that gpu