Hello, i've been doing some research and this site has been quite helpful so far, i'm still not sure and since i'm on a pretty tight budget i thought i'd just ask here first since everyone here seems to be pretty i intend to upgrade my pc and the stuff should last me at least one year, my current setup is : Intel Core2Duo E8600, clocked at about 4ghz Asus P5K SE EPU mainboard 4GB ddr2 800 ram Asus ATI EAH 4890 w 1gb ddr5 from what i read 8gb is overkill since i use the pc mostly for gaming and information gathering or surfing as they say, any video conversion or rendering i do while watching movies or at night so that's not an issue really, this rig is more than adequate for my needs i also read the i7 2600k makes virtually no difference to the i5 2500k when it comes to gaming so i thought i'd get Intel Core i5 2500k cpu MSI P67A-GD55 (B3) mainboard (the gd53 got best review but is not available here it seems) Kingston HyperX blu ddr 3 1600 CL9 2 x 2 gb dual channel (i can upgrade this later if need be) the most demanding games i run now are : battlefield bad company 2 alice madness returns test drive unlimited 2 civilization V a lot more but i think those are most demanding of the system games i intend to get most likely are Elder scrolls V skyrim and Battlefield 3 (as most demanding again) i have a 50 inch plasma tv i use mainly for movies and games, full hd , so that's a resolution of 1920x1080 i suppose now, my question (finally ) would i gain most performance by getting the hardware stated above, or would i gain more performance by buying a top notch gfx card and install that in the system i have (i was thinking something like the gtx 580 which costs about the same amount as the cpu+mb+ram ) i use a coolermaster v10 cooler which should be more than adequate for this as well Any suggestions and feedback would be greatly appreciated
