Procesor upgrade?

[Anon1337]

Hey mates, I got a Core 2 Duo 2.13 Ghz a core, and I'm thinking of upgrading.
With great games coming out like L4D, wondering if I should do it?
Thanks,
Anonymous

[Skhorpion]

Only for games? No.

If you do other processor intensive things though, then it may be worth it.

[Jesse]

Yeah, you do not need a processor upgrade. For the most part, games really aren't that processor heavy.
The two things that games are heavy on, are graphics and sound.
As long as you have a nice video card, and a nice sound card you should be able to play any game you want.

[Anon1337]

Yeah, I got a 8600, I'm getting 2 8800 ultras soon, anyway. And I'm also getting an extra 4GB of RAM.

[Jesse]

An extra 4 gigs of RAM?
As in, you're adding in 4 gigs and leaving what you have in there?
I'm guessing you have at least 1 gig of RAM in there right now.
Please tell me you have a 64 bit operating system. A 32 bit operating system simply won't see above 3.5 - 4 gigs of RAM.
Also, as a side note, you should never need above 3 gigs of RAM if all you plan on doing is playing games. Most, if not all games, don't even use above 1 gig of RAM.
So, 1 gig of RAM for the OS, 1 gig of RAM for your games, and 1 gig of RAM for any programs you happen to be running while playing a game.
It's all you'll ever need.

[Kiros]

Well, hosting applications (for games or otherwise) can consume a good bit of memory while loading new objects, and besides, exponential intervals of 2 is the best way to go (2, 4, 8, 16, etc.). I would hope that no one would get a 4GB stick of RAM because of the common poor latency that larger sticks have.

Anyway, as Cory said, there's no need to upgrade the processor that you currently have. Save your money for reasonable upgrades.

[Skhorpion]

Most desktop motherboards won't even recognize above 4gb.

[Aηdy]

There's no point in throwing extra RAM and processing power at it, that wont help much at all. Make sure you have a decent matched pair of low latency sticks of ram, a well cooled CPU and a decent graphics card, back up with a fairly good sound card.