Best upgrade path ?

Damien. · 2 Apr 2011 at 10:24

Just thinking about my PC this morning and abit worried about falling behind and having to fork out a fortune when my machine is fully outdated. I am after some sound advise about the best upgrade route at this moment in time, that would be somewhat future proof for the next year or so.

My current set-up is;

Asus Crosshair III, AMD 965 BE @ 3.4, 4GB Corsair Dominator, Xfire 5870's.

Please be brutally honest if you think ill be ok for a while at least.

Thanks in advance.

stulid · 2 Apr 2011 at 10:26

That shouldn't need upgrading for a long time yet.

Wait for the new 9** series motherboards and then you can go AMD Bulldozer.

Damien. · 2 Apr 2011 at 10:28

Yes, id like to stay AMD.

Do you think another 4GB of ram would be worthwhile ?

stulid · 2 Apr 2011 at 10:29

Not for a gaming PC, if you do other tasks like Video editing a lot, then 8GB will help.

Lemin · 2 Apr 2011 at 10:29

Id give it another year at least, not a bad rig at all.

Surveyor · 2 Apr 2011 at 10:30

Damien. said:
Yes, id like to stay AMD.

Do you think another 4GB of ram would be worthwhile ?

Not really beneficial for gaming (which I assume you do with Crossfire 5870's) and you can only add more RAM if you have a 64bit operating system.

Lemin · 2 Apr 2011 at 10:35

He's got 4 gig so i hope he has win 7 64bit. If not theres the best upgrade.

Damien. · 2 Apr 2011 at 12:31

Yep, currently running W7 X64.

So you guys think I should just sit on it for now, and wait for next AMD generation ?

joem1983 · 2 Apr 2011 at 13:44

I agree with the others. Its fine for now and doubt there will be much to push it for a while, I doubt its struggling is it? Upgrade when it needs it. Like in a year and it isnt running a new game, upgrade then...

Maybe an SSD?

Cookeh · 2 Apr 2011 at 14:18

stulid said:
That shouldn't need upgrading for a long time yet.

Wait for the new 9** series motherboards and then you can go AMD Bulldozer.

No need, current ASUS boards will take AM3+ after a BIOS flash.

Actually, is this classed as current?

stulid · 2 Apr 2011 at 14:19

Cookeh said:
No need, current ASUS boards will take AM3+ after a BIOS flash.

Actually, is this classed as current?

Depends on the chipset actually!!!!

only the 890 chipsets will work

the crosshair III is too old.

and its still unofficially support.

Cookeh · 2 Apr 2011 at 14:31

stulid said:
Depends on the chipset actually!!!!

only the 890 chipsets will work the crosshair III is too old.

and its still unofficially support.

I've been lied to

Cheers for the update!

stulid · 2 Apr 2011 at 14:35

Cookeh said:
I've been lied to

Badly lied too I would say.

http://event.asus.com/2011/mb/AM3_PLUS_Ready/