New CPU or video card?

[W&B]

I did upgrade from a dual core wolfsdale 3.16ghz and a GTS 250 to what's in my sig and my new rig smokes the old dual core one but that doesn't exactly help answer your question lol.

[W&B]

I'll let someone more comfortable making hardware comparisons answer that, I just wanted to point out that your cpu is most likely faster than the one linked to newegg. Someone with more experience will jump in here and answer better than I can.

[mike_tee_vee]

Not sure that cpu would be an upgrade considering it's a dual core and the op has a quad but newegg has a i7 920 quad for $280 (give or take last time I checked).

EDIT: forgot to mention, if the op does upgrade the cpu they should make sure it's compatible with the motherboard they have.

So in this case, pound for pound, would a GTX 460 deliver greater performance gains over a Core i7 processor?

[W&B]

For that money, try both?

Not sure that cpu would be an upgrade considering it's a dual core and the op has a quad but newegg has a i7 920 quad for $280 (give or take last time I checked).

EDIT: forgot to mention, if the op does upgrade the cpu they should make sure it's compatible with the motherboard they have.

[btufail]

For that money, try both?

[mike_tee_vee]

I'd like to improve my speeds in BD25 back-ups. I'm averaging about 3.5MB/s in normal quality, and 1.0 MB/s in high quality.

My specs are:
Windows XP Pro
Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4ghz)
nVidia 8500GT

I have about $400 to spend this year. Performance wise, would this be better spent on a new video card, or towards a new CPU?