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Looking to make an update or two to my two year-old computer. Where's the biggest bang for my buck with this rig? CPU? RAM? I'll also be upgrading to Windows 7 soon.

Dell XPS 630I

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83GHz

Two NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT cards

4GB Kingston PC2-6400 DDR2

cpu is fine,ram should be ok unless your maxing it out so i would say video card but double check your PSU first

One of my video cards crapped out, and I'm looking to either get another of the same to run SLI again or get a nicer card to replace both of them. Any recommendations in the $200-250 range?

its maxing out your price but the gtx 560ti would be good

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130604

or the GTX 460 which is in the 200-250 range both those cards would outperform a 9800 in Sli

Thanks, Matrix. Any cards just above that one you would recommend? There's a $30 rebate on the card that brings it down to $217. If other cards rebates, too, I'm willing to spend a bit more.

Is it worth getting the superclocked version of the same card?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130610

no not worth bying the super clocked it would make little change and you can always over clock it wiyth the evga precision tool which is free

Thanks, Matrix, ended up getting the 560 Ti. Showed up yesterday and is running nicely so far. I can max out all settings except for shadows, which drop my fps by 20 or so when maxed.