A little advice on upgrade...

ChinookTwoOne

ChinookTwoOne

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Ok, so I bought my custom PC in early 2012. The old girl is now starting to buckle under the strain of more power hungry games.

Here are my specs anyway....

Case: Coolermaster CM690 MkII Advanced Case

Processor: Intel Core i7-2600 Quad Core 3.40GHz 8mb Cache + HD Graphics

Motherboard: Asus P8z68-V/Gen3: PCI-E 3.0 Ready, SLI, CrossfireX

RAM: 8GB Samsung Dual-DDR3 1333MHz (2 x 4GB)

Graphics Card: 2GB AMD RADEON HD6970 - 2 DVI, HDMI, 2 mDP - DX11, Eyefinity 4 Capable.

Hard Disk: 1TB WD Caviar Black WD1002FAEX, SATA 6Gb/s, 64mb cache (7200rpm)

DVD Drive: 24x Dual Layer DVD Writer

Power Supply: Corsair 650W Enthusiast Series TX650, V2-80 Plus

Processor Cooling: Super Quiet 22dBA Triple a Copper Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler

OS: Win 7 Home Premium 64 Bit

I've been having issues of late with certain games, I think personally it's an overheating problem. Games crashing, restarting and crashing to desktop etc. I've had compressed air and vac inside, cleaning dust out....

I've been advised by individuals looking through my specs on another forum, that I'd do well in just replacing the GPU. I did appreciate the few comments I had, but being non tech minded; I found the advice vague and not informative enough to spend a sum of money.

I use Microsoft flight sim x a lot, with addons. I'd like to be able to run newish releases comfortably. If it's only the GPU I need to replace, I reckon I could spend around £200.

But please, fire away with your best advice....

Thank you in advance!
 
RJC,

Hello and thank you for the welcome and speedy response!

I'm not sure about the K, sorry! that's interesting because the two options that were given me was; the GPU you linked and the GTX 760.

Would you know the differences between the two?

Kind Regards
 
R9 280 has more VRAM, and is faster in most games. The nVidia card will take advantage of having CUDA cores, AMD card supporting OpenCL. If you aren't doing any programs that can take CUDA acceleration into account (photo-editing etc) then just get the R9 280. Better value, better performance :)

Read what Bacon \/ said, FSX runs better on nvidia, 760 is the way to go
 
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Believe most simulator based games and specifically Microsoft Flight Sim run a lot better on Nvidia based hardware compared to ATI, so your best bet would probably be a Nvidia card like the 760 unless you also do more graphical intensive gaming. That said the 760 is now slouch anyways.
 
Thanks for the helpful advice guys, I'm going with either gtx 760 or 770, not sure yet. Could I just ask though, after looking through online retailers, can somebody explain what maker I go for?

I mean there is EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, Asus, over locked, superclocked ergh. It's not made easy...

Thanks guys!
 
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