Best gaming upgrade with £250?

4GHz easily using the intel stock cooler, with a little more tweaking and a aftermarket heatsink then closer to 4.5GHz
 
Annoyingly, it would cost the same to upgrade as it would to buy a new computer from scratch;






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if your only at 1368x768 res then your 5750 shouldnt be too problematic. i game at the same res with a GTX 460 768MB and a phenom II X4 955, and can max out every game i have, the most demanding of them being crysis with a custom config, which i get ~40FPS

if you see the comparison your graphics card is quite a bit worse than mine, but the processor will certainly make up some of that difference, so you should be able to get decent settings on most games with the 5750

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/173?vs=156
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/88?vs=288

spend the money on the i5 2500k, a good motherboard with plenty of upgrade possibilities and whatever RAM you may need. also, dont worry about the thermal paste, the standard cooler comes with some pre-applied

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this is the ideal upgrade (but quite far over budget), as the motherboard supports crossfire/SLI should you want to add a second graphics card in the future, and it also supports all the Z68 motherboard features, one of which is lucid virtu, which saves a heap of cash on the electric bill


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** LOWEST UK PRICE ** £99.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £23.99
Total : £297.96 (includes shipping: FREE).
 
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Reaper 392 said:
if your only at 1368x768 res then your 5750 shouldnt be too problematic. i game at the same res with a GTX 460 768MB and a phenom II X4 955, and can max out every game i have, the most demanding of them being crysis with a custom config, which i get ~40FPS

if you see the comparison your graphics card is quite a bit worse than mine, but the processor will certainly make up some of that difference, so you should be able to get decent settings on most games with the 5750

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/173?vs=156
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/88?vs=288

spend the money on the i5 2500k, a good motherboard with plenty of upgrade possibilities and whatever RAM you may need. also, dont worry about the thermal paste, the standard cooler comes with some pre-applied

*edit*
this is the ideal upgrade (but quite far over budget), as the motherboard supports crossfire/SLI should you want to add a second graphics card in the future, and it also supports all the Z68 motherboard features, one of which is lucid virtu, which saves a heap of cash on the electric bill


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** LOWEST UK PRICE ** £99.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £23.99
Total : £297.96 (includes shipping: FREE).
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Thanks for the help mate, much appreciated. :) I am thinking perhaps get the CPU/RAM/MOBO first, see how it runs the BF3 beta, and decide on the GPU from there.
 
I say wait. Bulldozer and 7xxx G cards will be out soon. Save some more cash in the meantime and then upgrade the GPU as well.
 
stulid said:
4GHz easily using the intel stock cooler, with a little more tweaking and a aftermarket heatsink then closer to 4.5GHz
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Im not sure he will get 4.5 with that board, according to this review the board is only capable of getting 4ghz stable. I would save up for something better like the Asrock z68 pro3 which can definitely get a good OC.
 
titan13131 said:
Im not sure he will get 4.5 with that board, according to this review the board is only capable of getting 4ghz stable. I would save up for something better like the Asrock z68 pro3 which can definitely get a good OC.
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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sh...ingtherain+username_BringTheRain#post19964916

He got 4.2Ghz stable and he has got a clue, many other people have his board and gone past 4GHz, in fact if you cant get past 4GHz on even the worst CPU and motherboard combination then you are doing something wrong.
 
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