So one of my family members comes to me with this question... he has money to blow and wants to upgrade his alienware computer so these were the two options he was looking at... I told him he's already set up nicely so save the money but he insists on upgrading so can anyone provide advice on which one to go with? CPU or Graphics?

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my alienware has a core-2 duo 2.67GHz E6700 4M Cache 1066MH CPU and (2) EVGA NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GTX 768MB PCI-E GPU's

i looked up the cost of upgrading to either (2) 768MB nvidia geforce 8800 Ultra Over clocked at $729.99 each or an intel core 2 duo extreme QX6850 3.0GHz 8 cache 1333MHz FSB at something around $1400

im not sure how much of an upgrade the quad core will give me over my dual core for my purposes and isnt AMD coming out with a quad core thats supposed to be faster than the Intel?




So what's his best plan of action?

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