Looking for a GTX 460 right now to replace the GT 240 so it should be interesting to see the difference once I get one. And later this year or next I'll get a good Core 2 Quad, but the Core 2 Duo 3.33 is good enough for now as only a small percentage of games utilize all 4 cores of the Quads right now. Of course BFBC2 has to be one of the games that takes advantage of the 4 cores (one of the main reasons for getting a new computer).
And I might try overclocking the cpu, I've read that the E8600 is amazing for that. Can go up to 3.8 - 4.0 no problem on a air alone (Aftermarket HS) and not messing with the Voltages either. Never OC'ed before but there's no use in doing it till I get a new Vid. Card to take away some bottle necking.
Heaven Benchmark v2.5 Basic
FPS: 7.6
Scores: 190
Min FPS: 3.0
Max FPS: 14.4
Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 1 2011
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8600 @ 3.33GHz
CPU flags: 3332MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 HTT
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 8.17.12.6658 512Mb
Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1280x1024 8xAA fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 16x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Tessellation: disabled
