Quote Originally Posted by Yolanda View Post
If you need gaming perfomance, you can wait a couple of weeks and buy Geforce GTX295 (about ~500-550$), with a small overclock it should be as fast as two Geforce GTX 280 in SLI mode on Nvidia mainboard with their SLI chipset, so it's about 3 times faster then 8800GTS512 and four times then older versions of 8800GTS, if you use high resolutions with antialiasing. Only this upgrade can give you such big inrease of perfomance. Quad core CPU can give you 2 times faster processing power only in special programs designed for multicore computing such as video decoding or software animation.
I'm reasonably happy with my gaming performance right now. If it goes up 10-20%, that'd be great, but my main goal is being able to run multiple OS's in VMware better. Any amount of money for an upgrade that nets me only gaming performance would be a waste for me.