Im thinking about getting a new mobo along with new memory and a new quad cpu. would it be wise to get a quad core or should i spend the money on something else? I would like to see what you guys suggest!

I use a quad for gaming works fine
What all are you using it for
Don't skimp on the vid card

BTW I take it your in to full metal
Good series

well, I have a very good Graphics card, so theres no need to get a new one. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150364 the link there is the gpu that i have, I plan on gaming primarily with the quad core, some video editing with vegas movie studio from time to time.

EDIT: yes, full metal alchemist is amazing! i like the series, havent seen the movie yet!

My i7 920 is a monster, even at the stock clock frequency. Nothing else needed to be said really. Depending on your budget you can go for i7 series or Core 2 Quad series, or go with an AMD quad core (or triple core).

one of my friends was suggesting intel, but due to my budget, im going the AMD route once again! amds been solid for me, no problems with them at all! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103696 - this is the quad core from amd im getting!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813131603 - this is the new mobo im getting!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820134792 - this is the memory im getting, I ordered 2 of these, so im getting 8GB!

Bad move. With DDR2 this would have been okay (although it is preferable to minimize number of modules), but with DDR3 you want to get 3x 2 GB and fire it up in triple-channel.
The extra 2 GB above those 6 will extremely rarely, if ever, give you benefits anyway, so you got nothing to lose.

I got 3x 2 GB DDR3-1066 and it is bloody fast, and even underperforming as I still got a 32-bit OS.

it wouldve been over my budget, thats why i went with that

Your current choice costs ca. $210 (you bought 2 of that 2x2 GB kit right?), this 6 GB triple channel kit is both faster and $20 cheaper.

yes, i bought 2 of them, and yes the memory link u gave me is cheaper memory as opposed to what i got.

I will be getting the parts later today, so Ill let everyone know how it runs!!

ive had the quad core setup for a month now, and its running like a beast!!! I havent had the time to let everyone know this!!

The best way to truly utilize the quadcores is to make extensive use of the affinity mapping in Task Manager. Also you can use tools like imagecfg to permanently modify the affinity header of an exe file. That is a nice workaround until games and other heavy applications more commonly have internal (and effectively distributed) multi-threading support.

yea, I had to tweak my 64 bit windows 7 to use all 4 cores for my quad core bc it only detected 2 cores! but, i looked it up and tweaked it now!!