craigavfc wrote Hello, I am currently upgrading my computer (ram, CPU and the motherboard), at the moment I have

4gb ram ddr3 kingston
Intel core 2 quad q6600 at 3.0ghz
and the mobo is standard crap

But I'm upgrading to

4gb ram G skill ddr3
intel i5 2500k
and a gigabyte p67a

Will I see better performance in gaming and other tasks ? ( I also have a GPU but i'm not upgrading that - it's a 5850 xtreme

Upgrading from 4gb to 4gb is pointless, go to 6 or if you're one of those morons who always has facebook and all that shit open 8. And yes what you're doing is fine, but tbh you shouldn't have such a high end cpu but have a sort of high end gpu. You should go with a lower end AMD cpu and different mobo if you don't want to upgrade the gpu. You can save some money. Or if you still want the 2500k upgrade to a more high end card. That cpu can probably(I'm guessing) a 7990 (when they're released of course, only on an oc though. But if you don't oc any intel cpu then you're a filthy muslim who has just wasted their money).

haha you have pretty much the same setup as me! My q6600 is getting upgraded to a 2500k soon

Yes, upgrade.

Also get another 5850, belive it or not, they are actually better than the 6850.

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Also get at least 650w for those cards.

EDIT:

Keep your ram, upgrading to 4gb having 4gb is pointless.

-Frostbite-

It's not pointless, G skill ripjaws ram is high performance ram plus it has 297 more mhz, my original was 1333mhz where as the g skill ripjaws is 1600mhz. Thank you all for your input

If you are getting these kind of components, I would assume you are upgrading you operating system to 64bit right?

Otherwise your plan is pointless, 64bit will truly utilize these components. Then at that point the speed of the RAM won't matter either because Windows won't know what to do with it.

I can understand if you only wanted 4gb of RAM because you are running a 32bit system but then why would you waste your money on processing power you can't use.

I'm not trying to be mean if I come across as so, I'm just explaining the nitty gritty to you. So unless you are going to do it right, don't do it at all.

I have been using windows 7 Ultimate 64bit for a year now, I know that 32bit doesn't fully use the 4 gb ram, I'm not that stupid hahaa

craigavfc wrote I have been using windows 7 Ultimate 64bit for a year now, I know that 32bit doesn't fully use the 4 gb ram, I'm not that stupid hahaa

As long as you knew. I would wait till you have enough money for more RAM if you plan on using CPU intensive programs.

Yeah I will be doing that in the future, in the meantime I haven't gone over 4 gbs of ram with programmes and games so the ram is fine for now.

If your looking for gaming... get a new PSU, more ram. (12GB). new Graphics card (Nvidia 500 series). and a gigabyte or Asus mb