Advice needed on upgrade

markmillman · 6 Dec 2012 at 22:03

Hello people

I am looking at upgrading my current build and would like to get some advice on which way to go to get the most out of my budget of £500.

My current build

Asrock Z68 extreme4 gen3 motherboard
Intel i5 2500k @ 4.4ghz
2x4gig corsair vengeance @ 9.10.9.27 1866mhz
Ati radon 7970 @ 1100mhz
Ocz ssd

I have already ordered a h100 cooler as my current one doesn't keep the cpu as cool as I would like so I thought while its open upgrade

I would like to know where you guys would go with this with my budget. I have read a few articles about using a NVidia 460 as a dedicated PhysX card but that would be a first for me. The savings could then go on more memory or changing the cpu.

Look forward to reading the replys
Thanks

ConnorJoshua · 6 Dec 2012 at 22:15

There doesn't really look like any reason you need to upgrade, the most you could do to that now is buy an ivybridge i5/i7 and crossfire 7970. But that seems a bit overkill

Bromhead · 7 Dec 2012 at 05:02

I looked at your current system and though that's what you're upgrading to!

It looks fine?

Doomedspeed · 7 Dec 2012 at 08:00

You have ordered the h100i right?

olivier renault · 7 Dec 2012 at 10:53

Upgrading to do what? All I could see is a 2700K and a CPU cooler. Maybe 16GB, but then do you really need that stuff?

zakblood · 7 Dec 2012 at 11:03

what you doing on it?

as it seems as good spec as it is, spending another £500 would depend on what you want more of, a better cpu, a better vga, more memory or more hdd space

can't really spec any changers until i know what your after, more memory is always nice to have tbh in any app or system build.

for more speed a high spec cpu will give you more speed but if your cpu isn't running cool im guessing your overclocking it?

so a newer cpu might not give the jump you think, what case you using and psu etc?

your card is a good one anyway same as your sdd, unless you need more space.

what games you play? that aren't working how you'd like them to?

shadow_boxer · 7 Dec 2012 at 11:03

System doesn't need upgrading imo. What resolution do you game at? Where are you looking to boost performance?

I'd be looking at a custom water loop or gpu if you play at >1080p. Possibly sound card, speakers or even stereo amp and pair of decent bookshelf speakers?

daniel7912 · 7 Dec 2012 at 11:05

ConnorJoshua said:
There doesn't really look like any reason you need to upgrade, the most you could do to that now is buy an ivybridge i5/i7 and crossfire 7970. But that seems a bit overkill

Agreed.

markmillman · 7 Dec 2012 at 11:18

I have ordered H100 just waiting on it to turn up today fingers crossed.

The reason behind my post Is I would like a higher frame rate in guild wars 2 in large events. My comps fine 90% of the time it just slows down with large numbers of people.

I have been in touch with nc and run many programmes to try and find any problems with my system and I have found none. So taking that in mind I thought a cheapish upgrade might fix my problem.

I might go with another 2x4gig memory and see if that helps.

Any advice you guys could give would be great thanks

Think I should have started this thread explaining what I wanted to do first sorry about that :rolleyes:

ConnorJoshua · 7 Dec 2012 at 22:29

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/73573-wvw-more-cpu-intensive-or-gpu-intensive/ Well quickly reading through this thread suggests that guild wars 2 is more of a cpu intensive game, so upgrading that would give you the most increase in fps