05-24-2011, 05:40 PM
Small SSD are great with Intel's Smart Caching on the Z68, but that's a full system overhaul. A 4 GHz Phenom II won't be bottlenecked by anything short of quad-Crossfire/SLI, it is far from ancient and memory speed isn't nearly as important as you think, lower latency RAM @ 667 is often higher performing than 800 or 933 MHz RAM in real world applications and games.
Under get a video card you can always use it in your new build down the road and today's video cards for around $250 are well over twice as powerful as yours and won't be bottlenecked by your system. Upgrading your video card is a no brainer to me.
A SSD would be a second option since it too can easily be swapped to a new build down the road, but it won't do nearly as much on your current system as far as gaming, compared to a video card.
Or spend thousands to get a Revodrive to use PCIe lanes, dip that bad boy in mineral oil and wrap it in some PATA ribbons for maximum cooling and performance.
Where is Mark? This Vox Novus nonsense is getting retarded.
Under get a video card you can always use it in your new build down the road and today's video cards for around $250 are well over twice as powerful as yours and won't be bottlenecked by your system. Upgrading your video card is a no brainer to me.
A SSD would be a second option since it too can easily be swapped to a new build down the road, but it won't do nearly as much on your current system as far as gaming, compared to a video card.
Or spend thousands to get a Revodrive to use PCIe lanes, dip that bad boy in mineral oil and wrap it in some PATA ribbons for maximum cooling and performance.
Where is Mark? This Vox Novus nonsense is getting retarded.