Slight upgrade

[Begbie]

Hey,

I have an old PC lying around,

3800x2
MSI K8N board
4GB of RAM (IIRC)
7800GTX

Now, if I had to upgrade the GFX card to say a 560 would it work? I mean would I be able to play new games on the market?

Basically I could justify to spend about £160-190 to upgrade. I want to get back into PC gaming without spending a fortune.

 

[Spenty]

That CPU would be a bottleneck for the 560 and modern games especially multiplayer stuff like BF3 would really struggle on that CPU.

 

[spixelspixel]

I'd sell that system and build a new one from scratch.. gimme a few minutes I'll put together a basket

 

[Spenty]

I'd sell that system and build a new one from scratch.. gimme a few minutes I'll put together a basket

He clearly states in his post he only wants to spend up to £190...

 

[spixelspixel]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-163-MS
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-206-MS
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-401-IN
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-119-GL

Total : £197.32 including next day delivery

That graphics card has been 10 pounds cheaper before so it might go down in price.

Can you re-use case/psu/hdd ? Or you could probably sell your current pc for ~100 and have enough for new ones.

 

[Begbie]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-163-MS
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-206-MS
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-401-IN
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-119-GL

Total : £197.32 including next day delivery

That graphics card has been 10 pounds cheaper before so it might go down in price.

Can you re-use case/psu/hdd ? Or you could probably sell your current pc for ~100 and have enough for new ones.

Thanks for that, shall have a look.

Don't think I would buy brand new mind. So much to be got second hand. Say if I had to spend £200 on Mobo, Processor and RAM. What would I be looking at 2nd hand?

 

[spixelspixel]

200 for mobo processor and ram you could get an i7 920 + a decent x58 motherboard + 8gb ram. I'd still get the ram new though since ddr3 is really cheap atm.

 

[Begbie]

Yeah looking at the prices, it seems the way to go.

I think with an i7 I should still be able to run most games even with my outdated gfx card?

Its mostly going to be an XBMC machine ma with the odd game here and there.

 

[spixelspixel]

Yeah looking at the prices, it seems the way to go.

I think with an i7 I should still be able to run most games even with my outdated gfx card?

Its mostly going to be an XBMC machine ma with the odd game here and there.

I wouldn't be using a 7800gtx with an i7 920.

The system I posted above would be a better choice if 200 is all you want to spend.

The celeron g530 is a great cpu for its price.