Upgrade or start again?

biggsyed

biggsyed

biggsyed

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I built a gaming PC back in 2012 and am now finding it is starting to struggle. The games I mainly play are Civ and Total War Warhammer, both of which I'm running at low/medium settings to keep the frame rates up. I would like to be able to play both of these on the higher settings but I'm not sure the best way to go, upgrade or start again?

My current spec is:
Motherboard - Asus p8z68-v
CPU - Intel i5 2500k @ 3.30GHz
Graphics - AMD Radeon HD 7900 - 3072mb
Ram - 8gb DDR 3
Power Supply - XFX Pro750
Hard Drive - 240gb SSD (Primary), 1tb Sata Drive (Secondary)
OS - Windows 7

Any help/opinions would be appreciated - also if I was to do this I have a budget of around £500-£600
 
Hi!

Well, you can keep the power supply, hard drives and upgrade the windows to 10.
It is extremely difficult to fit in this budget everything that you need but you can start with keeping that Radeon 7970 too and add the following:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £470.47
(includes shipping: £10.50)



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When you have more budget, just buy a new videocard.
 
Thanks for the replies, I'm currently on 1080 and am happy to keep it that way.

With regards to the current system, would the CPU upgrade be the priority?
 
biggsyed said:
Thanks for the replies, I'm currently on 1080 and am happy to keep it that way.

With regards to the current system, would the CPU upgrade be the priority?
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Well, the second option is to add i7-2600K, overclock it as much as you possibly can, and buy also:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £324.48
(includes shipping: £10.50)



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With memory depending on what exactly configuration of memory modules you have, I assume you have 2 x 4GB DDR3 1333.
 
biggsyed said:
Thanks for the replies, I'm currently on 1080 and am happy to keep it that way.

With regards to the current system, would the CPU upgrade be the priority?
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Few different options and view points to that .
Have you overclocked your CPU? If not do that and would be worth picking up a gtx 1060 6GB or RX580 since your gaming on 1080p and seeing if your CPU is being used 100% and how much your GPU is . If your CPU is 100% with the games you play and the GPU is under then your CPU is the limiting factor
 
With the budget you have I would look at selling current cpu/mboard/ram/gpu and then use the money you already have with the extra to go for Ryzen setup.

Your other bits are fine
 
edGfaCTor said:
With the budget you have I would look at selling current cpu/mboard/ram/gpu and then use the money you already have with the extra to go for Ryzen setup.

Your other bits are fine
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If I were him, I would rather wait till early New Year and buy Ryzen 2 instead.
Now can try with one new graphics card Radeon RX 580 only.
 
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