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Ashley Jordan

Ashley Jordan

Ashley Jordan

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Hello,

I am pretty new here so if this is in the wrong place please correct the thread,

I'm going to start off with my system specs;
2.80ghz i5 760 quad (SOCKET 1156) Lynnfield. - A50 Corsair Heat sink
HD5750 ati
8gb ddr3 133mhz
1tb hard drive - os , 2(western digital) 160gb 7200rpm, software raid 0
Win7 64Bit Professional,

now i am looking for a graphics update due to my understanding, this is where my bottleneck in the system points to. (If i am wrong and it could be somewhere else i would love some advice).

I was looking at the 560Ti 448, Classified (Evga) edition, due to its respectable benchmarks compared to the other 560Ti's, i was slightly uncertain about its 1.2gb on-board DDR5 and was not sure if this will cut it. ( BF3 and Diablo 3 Full settings smoothly is my goal along with any future high demanding games.) my budget is roughly ~£200.

i am also at a dead end along with my CPU's Socket type, after doing some light research it seems a lot of 1156socket Mobo's have been discontinued, leading me to believe these are getting less and less support, so if that is the case i would be looking for a Mobo and CPU upgrade.

Now in terms of my Storage, i am curious if this will be suitable and the read/write times will be appropriate; buying a SSD 64gb solely for my OS, combining my two 160gb western digital in HARDWARE RAID 0, for my Games/Applications/Software, will this be a good option? or will i see drawbacks on reading game data from those drives?

A Future thank you for your time and help.

Regards,

Ashley,
 
have a look at the ati 7850's for the graphics card.

have you tried overclocking your processor ?

maybe get something like the corsair m4 128gb for your o/s & main games/apps and use the 1tb drive for data, other games/apps.
 
Hello,

The ATI 7850's are slightly out of my ~£200 price range, on top of that i have not been a fan on the catalyst center, so preferably i would like to stay away from ATI, although i will still get one if need be, along with the corsair m4, i was thinking of just running my games from the RAID0 array with the two drives as most of my games/updates and all that jazz will soon clog up the 128gb, and running the applications/games from the 1tb drive on its own would be very slow.

any other suggestions?


*EDIT* i have never tried to OC my processor, would you recommend this ?*
Thanks

Regards,
 
7850's are around on ocuk for £199 at the moment, althought delivery will push it past 200 :(, if you can save for the delivery cost i would recommend them with the 2gb.

if your set on nvidia have a look at the ocuk 570 gtx.

fair enough on the hard drives, but would still consider an ssd for the o/s.

i'd definately have a go at overclocking it before going down the mobo/cpu upgrade route.
 
Oh okay, that graphics card looks nice, i will have a look into reviews on those items.

Also, yeah thanks for that advice to, i will be reading up on Overclocking my specific CPU and seeing how well i could go with my current heat sink,

thank you for your quick responses!
Regards,
 
Hello,

i have noticed that is benchmarks for the 7870, although you linked me the 7850, would you still recommend the 7850 or would you reckon the extra £ for the 7870 would be worth it?

Thanks

Regards,

*EDIT, i have just done another benchmark test for the http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-149-OK against the 7850, it seems the 570 pulls out ahead slightly, the only problem is the slightly less onboard GRAM the 570 has, what would you recommend between the 570 and the 7850?*

Here is the Benchmark, http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/518?vs=549
 
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from what i've seen around i'd stick with the 7850 over the 7870.

extra vram might be useful, depends on the resolution you game at, but looking at the benchmarks the 570 does ok for bf3, so don't doubt it will be ok for diablo 3.
 
i was sure when bf3 was released there were a few discussions on the benefit of the extra vram but can't currently find anything obvious so that might be worth a look around before making decision.

that aside, as you mentioned not being to happy with ccc on the ati, feel free to get the 570gtx.

all told i don't think you'll be disappointed with either of those tbh.
 
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