Upgrade meeeeeeee, thanks

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Boozebeard

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Haven't kept up with stuff the last year so I be needing help upgrading for the video games and stuff.

Thinking I'm gonna need to spend 300-400 but cheaper is better. Rig is in sig but I'll be wanting to go back to a regular atx board so will need a new case too (don't need to spec that though). Obviously I wont be able to get a new card with that budget and I'm mainly wanting to increase performance in planet side 2 at the moment which is a CPU hog so basically looking for a cpu, mobo ram and cooler, (maybe psu?).

I am a student game artist so I do use a few programs that could benefit from hyper threading but I'm thinking that an i7 will probably be stretching the budget a bit too far?

Thanks.
 
The PSU in your sig might do the job :confused:. The Minimum power requirements for a 480 are apparently 600w?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3D/US) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit £49.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £26.99
Total : £358.36 (includes shipping : £9.50).



Thow an overclock on the i5 too :)
E: You could probably save a bit on the RAM aswell :p
 
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Bacon? said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £259.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £35.99
Total : £385.97 (includes shipping : FREE).



You can always drop back to an i5 and put a GPU in there, but it'll only be a mid range GPU like a 7770.

Whats your current rig spec? GPU, PSU, RAM etc?
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Im guessing the PC in his sig which has a GTX 480 in it.
 
Rig is in my sig (sorry I did put it the first post but must have re written a bit and accidently deleted it)

480gtx
[email protected] 4GB ram
550watt psu (been using it a couple of years and I've made sure to measure my power draw under load which was under under 400watts)

Edit: oh wait I did say rig is in sig :P
 
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Ok, thanks guys. I think I'll stick to the i5 to keep the cost down though seeing as I need a case too.

There isn't anything coming out in the next month that I might want to wait for is there?
 
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