Building a new PC has been on my mind for some time, but I somehow have doubts about the i7 bringing better performance to games as the common i7 is currently at 2.66GHz, and most games, especially world of warcraft only uses 2 cores.
My current CPU is a Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz and I think it's a bottleneck in WoW as upgrading from a Radeon x1950XT to a Geforce 260 SSC (which is about 6 tiers higher according to a Tom's Hardware chart over the x1950xt) only improved fps by about 10-15 some months ago.
I am wondering, for now, if it's better to buy a small upgrade such as a 3.0GHz Wolfdale to get 6GHz total from the 2 cores: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-192-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=793
And if it is, is it compatible with the current motherboard I have? It is PC #1 in the sig. I did have a BIOS update for it that had "support 1333 strap" or along the lines of that in the changelog but I'm not certain if it's related to this.
My current CPU is a Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz and I think it's a bottleneck in WoW as upgrading from a Radeon x1950XT to a Geforce 260 SSC (which is about 6 tiers higher according to a Tom's Hardware chart over the x1950xt) only improved fps by about 10-15 some months ago.
I am wondering, for now, if it's better to buy a small upgrade such as a 3.0GHz Wolfdale to get 6GHz total from the 2 cores: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-192-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=793
And if it is, is it compatible with the current motherboard I have? It is PC #1 in the sig. I did have a BIOS update for it that had "support 1333 strap" or along the lines of that in the changelog but I'm not certain if it's related to this.