Need advice about upgrading.

DjRobertG · 13 Jan 2014 at 10:31

Hi guys. I built my current system quite a while ago and wondered if I could get away with a gpu upgrade or would have to build a new system.
Current specs are as follows:

Asus M4N78 SE motherboard
AMD Phenom II x4 940 BE socket AM2+
4 gig of Kingston Hyper X DDR2 memory
Zotaz GTX 550 ti Amp! edition

The pc is mainly used for playing Battlefield and other fps games. If I can get away with a gpu upgrade without the cpu being a bottleneck that would be great as I don't want to fork out on a new system just yet.
Cheers for any input.

mickyflinn · 13 Jan 2014 at 11:43

Upgrading your gpu will give you a decent performance boost but you cpu will hold it back some what.

What is your budget ?

DjRobertG · 13 Jan 2014 at 12:06

mickyflinn said:
Upgrading your gpu will give you a decent performance boost but you cpu will hold it back some what.

What is your budget ?

Around £120. I don't mind playing on mid as long as I get decent fps playing at 1680 x 1050. I'm more bothered about stable game play than eye candy.

mickyflinn · 13 Jan 2014 at 13:47

This is a little over budget but if you sell the game to bring the cost down.

YOUR BASKET
1 x sapphire radeon r9 270 "bf4 edition" 2048mb gddr5 pci-express graphics card £149.99

best graphics cards for the money: december 2013

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gaming-graphics-card-review,review-32850.html

DjRobertG · 14 Jan 2014 at 10:34

mickyflinn said:
This is a little over budget but if you sell the game to bring the cost down.

YOUR BASKET
1 x sapphire radeon r9 270 "bf4 edition" 2048mb gddr5 pci-express graphics card £149.99

best graphics cards for the money: december 2013

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gaming-graphics-card-review,review-32850.html

Cheers mate, that looks good.

On another note, if I upgrade my system with the components below would I see much of a performance difference?

AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6350 Black Edition 3.90GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor £104.99
Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit £71.99
ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £68.99
Total : £255.56

Fulax · 14 Jan 2014 at 10:59

DjRobertG said:
On another note, if I upgrade my system with the components below would I see much of a performance difference?

AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6350 Black Edition 3.90GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor £104.99
Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit £71.99
ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £68.99
Total : £255.56

For the same price:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light £55.99
Total : £255.97 (includes shipping : FREE).

That plus the 270X would be a good little upgrade.