Santa was nice and left a couple of Ben Franklins in my stocking this year, so I'm looking into upgrading my CPU on my main desktop.
Two games I would like to play that I currently can't play are Civilization 5, and Grand Theft Auto 4.
The CPU I currently have is an Intel Dual Core Socket LGA775, 2.6 GHz (E5300)
According to my motherboard manual (ASUS P5KPL-CM) this board will support up to a Quad Core 2 Duo processor.
Newegg didn't have any quad core, but I saw that amazon had one.
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Q8300-Pr.../dp/B001GMGN1G
Is this a good purchase? Or should I spend the $200 on a better board/RAM/CPU with something else?
Rest of the specs of the machine.
4GB (2x2GB) Gskill RAM DDR2-6400
Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT 512MB PCI Express x16
The only other reason at this point for wanting a better CPU is because I like to mess around with virtual machines.
I fell off the CPU wagon back in the single Pentium Core days, and I have no idea about the current crop of CPUS (i3? i7?)
Two games I would like to play that I currently can't play are Civilization 5, and Grand Theft Auto 4.
The CPU I currently have is an Intel Dual Core Socket LGA775, 2.6 GHz (E5300)
According to my motherboard manual (ASUS P5KPL-CM) this board will support up to a Quad Core 2 Duo processor.
Newegg didn't have any quad core, but I saw that amazon had one.
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Q8300-Pr.../dp/B001GMGN1G
Is this a good purchase? Or should I spend the $200 on a better board/RAM/CPU with something else?
Rest of the specs of the machine.
4GB (2x2GB) Gskill RAM DDR2-6400
Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT 512MB PCI Express x16
The only other reason at this point for wanting a better CPU is because I like to mess around with virtual machines.
I fell off the CPU wagon back in the single Pentium Core days, and I have no idea about the current crop of CPUS (i3? i7?)
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