Nvidia 128mb 8400 GS vs 256mb 8600gt

How much better is the 8600gt than the 8400gs in gaming? Is it worth the extra $169 or should i use the $169 to upgrade processor from 1.6ghz to 1.8ghz?

 

for games or for desktop applications?

in games, the difference between a 1.6ghz and a 1.8 ghz core 2 duo will be nominal. even if the clockspeed of your processor were the gaming bottleneck, its only 12% faster.

the 8600m gt is easily twice as fast as the 8400m gs, unrelated to the amount of memory on either.

 

For gaming, there will be a significant difference. It has more stream processors, higher clocks, wider memory bus, and more memory for the better core to take advantage of.

8600GT will smoke the 8400GS

 

upgrade the gpu .. processor upgrade is not worth the price performance ratio

 

Hate to bring up and old topic but how about the differance not with gaming. What about some minor video editing or flash animation rendering.

Say there is no gaming to be done but some light work in Photoshop, Flash, hell even Premiere. What about viewing streaming media. Is it going to be a huge differance between the 128MB 8400 and the 256 8600?

 

For that, you'd want a CPU upgrade, since all those are CPU dependant (rendering and processing).

Stick with the CPU upgrade if that's the case . However, I'm quite sure you can get a FAR better CPU for the same price--after all, we are 5 months in the future from your post date .