any help with a upgrade please

Ashbash1991 · 23 Sep 2015 at 23:51

Hello everyone,

im hoping i could get some guidance at upgrading my system which is a few years old now and getting a bit slugish, im very much out of the technolodg route recently unfortunately.

my current system is

case: coolmaster elite 330U
Power supply: coolmaster 500w
processor: I3-2100 3.10ghz
mobo: Gigabyte H61M-USB3-B3
Graphcs: radeon 6870
RAM: corsair ddr3 8GP (2x4)
HDD: seagate barracuda 500gb
O/S: windows 7

im hoping i can upgrade this to run the new total war warhammer game on high settings but dont know if this may be a bit optimistic, my system at the moment is used quite heavily for gaming and it can still run a lot of games on the high setting but i feel it wouldnt manage that with the newer games coming out and struggles with games like borderlands 2 when a lot of stuff starts going off (battlefront 2 etc)

thank you for any suggestions/help/guidance/shove in the right direction.

Quartz · 24 Sep 2015 at 00:02

Ashbash1991 said:
im hoping i can upgrade this to run the new total war warhammer game on high settings

Then I suggest you wait until it comes out to find out what you need.

dreamcat4 · 24 Sep 2015 at 10:13

Just get a new GPU whenever you feel like it. This year, or next year.

After doing that, then if it's discovered to be CPU bound can sell the i3 later on and buy some 2nd hand i5 / i7.

Ashbash1991 · 24 Sep 2015 at 11:12

i actually thought it was coming out this year for some reason....oh how wrong i was aha

so if i went and popped a gtx 970 in there i potentially wouldnt need to upgrade anything else?

And probably a extra hhd aha

Kurgen · 24 Sep 2015 at 11:28

i would do this..

Intel Core i5-3470 3.20GHz Quad Core about £80 on auction site

YOUR BASKET
1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 970 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-90101-10P) £249.95
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £68.99
Total : £328.54 (includes shipping : £8.00 Ex.VAT).

you would need to check if your psu had enough pci connectors, or get some molex splitters. or just upgrade the PSU

YOUR BASKET
1 x SuperFlower FX 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - Black £57.95
Total : £67.55 (includes shipping : £8.00 Ex.VAT).

Ashbash1991 · 24 Sep 2015 at 11:31

thank you for the suggestion ill look into it ( slowly getting back up to speed with everything)

Kurgen · 24 Sep 2015 at 12:03

hold back the free windows 10 upgrade until you do this as well

Ashbash1991 · 24 Sep 2015 at 13:57

i actually had a problem with my windows 7 about 2 years ago it is a genuine copy yet one day it just decided to say it wasnt anymore and microsoft wouldnt help me with it so ill have to buy windows 10 =[

dreamcat4 · 24 Sep 2015 at 15:02

You can buy a windows 7 OEM license for less, then upgrade before 29th July 2016 to Win 10. Once activated, the OEM license will become locked to your motherboard.