£200 Upgrade options?

ElliottJames · 20 Dec 2011 at 17:12

By tomorrow I'll have the following;

27" Hazro 2560x1440
6950 2GB Sapphire (Hopefully unlocked shaders)
i3 overclocked to 4.4ghz
8GB Ram DDR3
1TB HDD
650W Psu Corsair

What could I spend £200 on upgrading? Would an SSD be worth it? Or even 12GB ram? I've heard ram matters in GPU intensive games as they used shared memory?

atmax1 · 20 Dec 2011 at 17:17

Try and get another 6950?

fowler002 · 20 Dec 2011 at 17:54

an i2500k

whats your current mb?

shadow_boxer · 20 Dec 2011 at 20:19

Presumably by the fact that you've overclocked your i3, you'll need a new motherboard before an upgrade to an i5-2500K.

Where are you looking to improve performance?

fowler002 · 20 Dec 2011 at 20:23

shadow_boxer said:
Presumably by the fact that you've overclocked your i3, you'll need a new motherboard before an upgrade to an i5-2500K.

Where are you looking to improve performance?

didn't think about that

but the make/model of current mb would be nice to know so we can see if atmax1s suggestion for 2nd 6950 would work.

ElliottJames · 20 Dec 2011 at 21:15

Gaming performance tbf

the mobo is a Gigbabyte H55M

It says on the specs it supports ATI crossfire, that means I can use dual 6950?

Idleman · 20 Dec 2011 at 21:32

ElliottJames said:
Gaming performance tbf

the mobo is a Gigbabyte H55M

It says on the specs it supports ATI crossfire, that means I can use dual 6950?

Yes, it does.

fowler002 · 20 Dec 2011 at 21:52

but the 2nd pci-e is actually x4 so the the performance will be effected quite a bit, you want x8/x8 for xfire