£200 to spend need help

fatus · 14 May 2013 at 12:40

My friend has about £200 to spend on his pc.
specs now are
stock intel q8300 quad
7800gt gfx
4 gig ram
coolmaster 400w psu
not sure the res he tries to games at.

overclocking not really a option

I was thinking a 64gb ssd and the rest on a new gfx card to get the best boost for the money.

but not sure with that cpu and the psu if it is worth upgrading the gfx.

any ideas?

fatus · 14 May 2013 at 13:48

psu is a RS-400-PCAR-A3

So even with the bottle neck would we seen much improvement over a 7800gt say if we put a 650ti boost in.

£200 is all we that he wants to spend right now so we are trying for the best boost even if there is some bottleneck.

other option i saw was to skip the ssd for now and go with a trinity cpu board and ram.

not sure whats the best route.

fatus · 14 May 2013 at 14:02

ok gpu it is but will have to skip used card and get a new one.

fatus · 14 May 2013 at 14:31

Marine-RX179 said:
My old Q6600 overclocked to 3.6GHz bottlenecked my 5850, and the 7850 is around 40% faster than the 5850, so expect a huge bottleneck with the stock clock Q8300.

are you sure of this cant be many games this was a problem ?