Upgrading System for increased ISboxer performance
680i LT SLI Nvidia Model C55L55XEP15
Memory 3x - Corsair CM2X1024-6400C5DHX Power Supply 550w
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E6550 2.33GHz Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.
NVidia Geforce 9600 GT Cards X2. Not currently set to SLI. Using it all on a 52" Plasma TV, however also have a 23" monitor I might set up secondary at some point in the future.
I'm looking to upgrade the Motherboard and/or processor for somewhere in the range of $100-250, using everything else as the same. Currently using ISBoxer for Everquest 1 with 3 accounts. As far as I know, ISboxer utilizes multi-CPUs for better performance with EQ1 multi-boxing.
Been a long time since I've upgraded my MB(like 3 years) so not even sure where to begin, and there are so many different MBs out there now.
Any advice appreciated. Mostly doing this because I'm iffy about my current motherboard, seems to like to crash a lot. I once dropped my wireless keyboard on the ground and got a blue screen from it. No idea how that works. Also just bumping the system blue screens it a lot. Started happening a lot after I accidently dropped a USB flash drive on the MB once while it was running and it blue-screened.