Quote Originally Posted by Belgolas
I currently have a...
2.8 Ghz pentium D 533mhz FSB
NO HT 256KB L2 Cache
ATI 256mb X700 GPU
128-bit
400 VPU clock
250 Mem clock
3g of DDR2 533mhz
Intel® Desktop Board D945PSN


I am thinking of upgrading to a...
3.2 Ghz pentium 4 800mhz FSB
with HT and a 1mb L2 cache

and a...

EVGA GeForce 7950 GT KO SuperClocked
512MB GDDR3
46.4 GB per second memory bandwidth
1450MHz
600 MHz clock
256-bit

Would this be a good setup for M2TW and other games and how much of an improvement is this? Should I wait or buy a different setup? All post are welcome. Or should I just upgrade the CPU or buy a dual core. I would like to keep it cheap. Do I need just to upgrade the GPU?
M2TW would be happy with GF 7950GT. If upgrade CPU to P4 3.2 or Core 2 dual, you may also need to upgrade you mainboard to support the CPU. The cheaper way is upgrade the VGA first to 7950 GT, but first check you 945 PSN on how to support PCI-E x16 first (since the Intel spec just says it has "One PCI Express x16 bus add-in card connector", not sure what exactly means). and 7950GT may not reach its max. performance on a 533 Mhz Bus.