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Hi everyone, For the past year i have been thinking of either upgrading or buying a new system. But i cant make my mind up on what would be the best thing to do. So let me tell you a bit about how i use my system at the moment. I current use it mainly for gaming, but i also do some video...

My current GPU is an Asus GTX 1060 6gb dual OC and i'm wanting some advice on what GPU to upgrade to within a £500 budget that could run 144hz 1440p on my Acer Predator XB271HUA. I've been looking at the Zotac GTX 1080 ti mini and a second hand Asus ROG Strix 1080 on Ebay for £350.

Looking to upgrade my CPU above all things, in order to do so I need a new motherboard and then RAM to go with it (as my current RAM is DDR3 and not 4). Current budget: £500 (£530 MAX) - ($650-$690, roughly. USD). I'm looking at getting one of these motherboards: 1...

Hello, my name is Marcz. I been thinking about upgrading my pc for a while, since im feeling it getting a bit to slow for my gaming taste. My experince with building/upgrading pc is small to non, so I thought i would ask some geeks on a fourm, to help me out. And here I am xD My specs are as...

Hey, just wanted thoughts on what should be the next upgrade as I am unsure what will be compatible with the motherboard etc. CPU - Ryzen 3 2200G Radeon RX 570 Motherboard A320 Chipset Motherboard got 16GB Use of gaming, bit of browsing, office use.

Hello everyone I am still using my GTX580 that I purchased in 2010 and whilst it's an awesome card, it's starting to struggle playing newer games, especially whilst I'm streaming at the same time. I currently have the following: PSU: Corsair CX600 Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 Rev.1 GPU: EVGA...

Hello everyone! I had much time to think these holidays and i decided to move towards an upgrade. My doubt is very big What should i upgrade? I usually play pubg, overwatch, rainbow six, battlefield (sometimes), fortnite (very few times). I even produce music with ableton live so audio editing...

I'm currently running a 2600k, 16GB DDR3 and a GTX1070 I want to play on 2560x1440 at a confident frame rate to make use of a high Hz monitor. My friends are encouraging me to upgrade my CPU, Motherboard, RAM to the latest and greatest. Is that really necessary at this point? My own feelings...

Hi there, I'm looking to upgrade my current build to include a 2tb ssd and a second gtx 1080ti. I was hoping to get some advice as to whether my power supply/motherboard etc are adequate to support this. Completely out of my depth when it comes to hardware and hesitant to spend money before I...

Hi guys im running the above board with an i5 [email protected] processor 4 x corsair cmk8gx4m2a2400c14r ram Nvidia GeForce GTX1080 whats the biggest/best i7 i can fit to this config please i cant overclock to save my life so suggestions of out of the box solutions would be gratefully received

I'm stuck between choice when it comes to making a new purchase, I currently have an ASUS PG278Q Tn panel, and a Evga 1080 FTW. Thinking to get the ASUS PG279Q IPS panel, and have my current monitor as a secondary, or... to get myself an EVGA 2080 Ultra GPU, which does come with battlefield...

Current system is running with; Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth Z77 CPU: Intel i5 2550K Ram: 16GB DDR3 I want to upgrade my CPU ideally to 8th/9th gen (bit more research still to be done hence this post.) To upgrade from my current CPU I will need to buy a new Motherboard...

Hi all, I'am going to be upgrading my CPU. I currently have an i7-7700K, and I'am looking at i7-9700k. My Motherboard is a Asus Strix B250F Gaming Intel B250. Both of the CPU's and the Motherboard is a 1151 Socket. But I'am sure the other day i read that the 9th gen Processors may not work on...

Looking to swap back over to AMD and sell off my current 6700k chip + board but not sure which chip to go for? I can grab the 2600 for about £100 cheaper than the 2700 but not 100% sure which one would give a decent performance bump over the 6700k? I'm looking to use it for a mixture of...

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could suggest some upgrades I should consider, I am not the most knowledgeable but I know a reasonable amount. One thing I would like to further my knowledge on is overclocking, I think my current CPU could definitely go higher but I don't want to take risks...

So I've decided to finally start upgrading my pc, it wasn't doing too well. I've recently upgraded to an RX 580 8gb and decided to buy assassin's creed origins. But the frame rate on High was really unstable and its still around 30/40 on medium.. Is the rx 580 just not cut out for newer games...

Heya! I built a gaming PC around 4-5 years ago, and need some advice on an upgrade. Here are the specs: -Intel core i5 4690k -Asus Strix Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 -8gb DDR3 RAM -Mars Gaming black tower case Other: Razer Firefly Razer blackwidow chroma Razer mamba tournament edition As the new...

Hi all! I've just bought a Gigabyte Aorus rx580 to replace my EVGA GTX 670ftw. This being a very recently upgraded system (last week), I've obviously just installed the latest nvidia drivers. When I replace the 670 with the rx580, what will happen? System will obviously think it has a...

Having just splashed out £450 on an upgrade, I'm wondering if i need to replace my 5+ year old HX620W PSU. It's served me flawlessly all this time but is there any reason to upgrade? Full spec can be found in the thread I posted in the build section of the forum.

Hi all, I'm looking to record music on my laptop (not EDM, just guitar, vox, etc.). At the moment I have: MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Option one is I put a Samsung 860 Pro 512GB SSD in the MacBook, download Logic Pro X, and start recording...