£600 Budget for an upgrade.

Damien.

Damien.

Damien.

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Well ive fallen being times on the hardware front, things are just coming out so quickly and I dont know where to look anymore. I want to upgrade my machine and bullet proof it for games to come out this year, my budget is £600.

At the moment i have; Q6600, 280GTX, 4GB DDR2, P35 Mobo, Corsair 750 Watt.
 
Well you're clearly looking at an i7 build

Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £246.09 (£213.99)
Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM £229.99 (£199.99)
G.Skill 6GB (3 X 2GB) DDR3 NQ PC3-12800C9 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (F3-12800CL9T-6GBNQ) £91.99 (£79.99)
Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366) £57.49 (£49.99)
Sub Total : £543.96
Shipping cost based on delivery to Home, HG3 2XB with:
FREE SHIPPING (DPD Next Day)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : FREE
VAT is being charged at 15.00% VAT : £81.59
Total : £625.55


Just over but you'll be set for some time to come

Edit: or get a bundle such as this, and add aftermarket cooler
or even this one where its pre-clocked
 
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I have a Q6600 (@ 3.3GHz) and a 4870 1GB, and to be honest I'd be pretty gutted if I found myself needing to upgrade before the end of the year to play new games at high settings.

If I were you (and I am in the sense of having quite a similar rig!) I'd just keep saving up until your current hardware actually struggles in some game or another.

Depends what resolution you game at, though, I suppose (I use 1680x1050).
 
Yeah theres not much out better, the 285 is merely a refined version, slightly tweaked but not worth an upgrade, the 295 is better but still not worth it, hold onto it for now, you could always add another and SLi if needed. though as strumpusplunket said do you really need to upgrade? or you just wanting to?
 
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