Quote Originally Posted by 'elsegundo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=165002#po st165002
you went dual core to quad core first, then upgraded ram from 4gigs to 8.

the OP has already gone 4 gigs to 8gigs. its a little different. this tells me he doesnt have a Memory bottleneck as much as he does a CPU bottleneck. of course, adding ram to your system would have made vista running on a quad core much faster. but that's your system, with a different bottleneck, if you will.
Actually I went to 8 GB before I went to Quad Core. I know my original post doesn't make that clear. My point is that to know if a CPU upgrade will help, you need to know if you're pegging your CPU when you're at peak utilization. If you're not, then a CPU upgrade won't help. In order to know this, you have to be able to see your CPU utilization while playing. I use my gaming keyboard (http://techgasm.files.wordpress.com/...board-2007.jpg) to tell me that. Memory upgrade helps if you are maxing your memory utilization or if the system is having to go to the hard drive for virtual memory (If you have hard drive seeks for it going to the page file, absolutely upgrade RAM). I'm trying to arm whoever reads the thread with how to determine whether a particular type of upgrade will help and that was the point of my post above. You seem to be making an assumption based upon information not given when you saw he has a processor bottleneck.