£100 upgrade to the spec in my rig

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It's my brothers and myne rig and I would like to add dual graphics.
SSD (Maybe... not needed would rather get bigger hdd.)
And maybe more???
 
My £100 would buy a 6850 if the system is designed around gaming. I'm just assuming it is with you wanting dual GPUs. At your budget, and considering what you already have, a single decent card is a much better choice, though.
 
A 6850 would be a great choice for a mere £100, but if you could afford to save up a little bit more, the 7850 could be a cracker, if the OC hype is to be looked into.

Again, 6850 if you can't spare some more.
 
I don't really follow AMD as a CPU manufacturer, so I had to look up the 3650. Seems it's often compared to (and in the few benchmarks I saw, often pipped) the i3 2100 from Intel's camp. I doubt you'd be getting the full potential from a 7850 with that CPU, and it's almost twice the £100 budget, which makes it hard to recommend for me.

The 6850 is more powerful than a 1GB 460 from the benchmarks I looked at while trying to pick out a card for a friend on a similar budget, which should mean it's enough for most games on decent settings at up to 1080p. I used to run a 768MB 460, and it coped pretty well with most things I threw at it.
 
Thanks, I'll look into buying one. But my psu 4 pin/ 8pin is xtra short...
so it wont be able to go through the graphics card will i need an adapter.
also how many 6 pin power will it have???
 
Warecast said:
Thanks, I'll look into buying one. But my psu 4 pin/ 8pin is xtra short...
so it wont be able to go through the graphics card will i need an adapter.
also how many 6 pin power will it have???
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Just get a 4/8 pin extension. Something like this should do the trick.

I believe a 6850 has two 6 pin slots, so you'll need to be sure your PSU is up to the task. What make, model and wattage is it?
 
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beejjacobs said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus HD 6850 DirectCU V2 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £84.95
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £41.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £19.99
Total : £159.83 (includes shipping : £10.75).

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This looks good to me. I wouldn't trust that PSU either, honestly. And that RAM is worth the extra £3 over the Corsair stuff you originally wanted.
 
Very good
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Warecast said:
The PSU is very reliable
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with a much higher than average chance of going pop (or bang) with the possibility of turning some of your components into little more than paper weights. it can say gamer on it all it wants, but it doesnt even have one 6 pin pci-e cable, doesn't stop it being a £20 psu.
 
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