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Moanica

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Hey guys,

Long time lurker, first time poster.

I'm looking to upgrade my gaming PC and hoping for some advice on how to do this efficiently.

I have a budget of ~£200, I'd prefer to go with nvidia for graphics and intel for processor but I'm open to suggestion, especially if cyber monday deals apply.

Current specs:

System Specification
- Case: Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower - Black
- Power Supply: OCZ 600w StealthXStream II
- CPU: Intel Core i7 920 D0 2.66GHz Overclocked to 4.00GHz
- Motherboard: Asus P6T OC Palm Edition Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard
- Cooler: Corsair H50 Watercooling w/ Sharkoon Silent Eagle 2000rpm 120mm Fan
- RAM: Kingston HyperX 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel
- Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA 3Gb/s 16MB Cache
- Graphics Card: Club 3D ATI Radeon HD 5770 512MB GDDR5
- Sound: 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)
- Optical Drive: LG DVD+/-RW SATA Drive

I bought this from OC a couple of years ago now and it's starting to get a bit sluggish.

My intial thoughts were go with 2x4GB RAM, a new graphics card and potentially processor? I'm not too sure what the bottle neck outside of RAM is here. Hoping that I don't need a new motherboard and PSU to achieve this.

Thoughts?
 
Hi,

What do you use this PC for?

If it is gaming then the obvious answer is to upgrade the GFX card and overclock the existing cpu by adding an aftermarket cooler if you only have the stock intel heatsink.
 
Hey Stulid,

Yep this is primarily for gaming.

I'd rather stay away from overclocking if possible for this machine as it caused some stability issues when I first got it.
 
I still think first thing to do is whip that 5770 out, sell it and put something much much faster in.

An SSD will also give a great jump in the PCs overall responsiveness.

Reinstall your OS+drivers onto this,

YOUR BASKET
1 x SK Hynix 128GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS128G32MNB-2201A) £44.99
Total : £48.90 (includes shipping : £3.26).



Wipe clean and make the 500Gb HDD a storage drive.

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Bgrade GTX770 - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-029-KF

5770 vs GTX770 - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1078?vs=1037

So that along with the SSD is your £200 spent.
 
Thanks for such a fast response - that looks great. One last question, would that be fine with my current motherboard/PSU (have to double check)?
 
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