Build upgrade advice

3wgs3 · 1 Dec 2014 at 18:46

hi all

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this and give any help.
its been a few years since my friend and i built my pc and now im a bit behind
with all the new things out,my wife is treating me to a new case(obsidian 900d)
so i thought i would up grade my graphics card and water cooling may be?

Current pc,
case-antec 1200
ps-xfx 750w
board-foxconn blood rage lga 1366
cpu-i7 [email protected]
graphics card-amd radeon 6900
ram-6gb corsair xms3
ssd-kingston hyper x 120gb
1tb hard drive

the cpu and graphics are water cooled at the moment
thanks again

stulid · 1 Dec 2014 at 18:48

Hi,

Thats a good looking setup still.

What exactly is the version of that GFX card? as there are various versions such as the 6950/6970/6990.

What budget do you have for a change of card?

3wgs3 · 1 Dec 2014 at 18:55

think its the 6970 with the switch on the side
may be not much more than £200 as i would like to water cool it again and if christmas
doesnt brake the bank i may be able to strech to 2

stulid · 1 Dec 2014 at 19:02

This then - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-164-PC&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

Which is reference so finding a water block for it will be simple.

Its also the 290X, not 290 which are the same price but with custom coolers+/or PCB.

3wgs3 · 1 Dec 2014 at 19:08

great thanks
was also thinking power supply could do with being 1000w?

stulid · 1 Dec 2014 at 19:14

Its a good PSU you have (seasonic inside) but yeah, 850W is what is normally recommended for a a pair of these, single card and your safe.

YOUR BASKET
1 x SuperFlower Leadex Platinum 1200W Fully Modular "80 Plus Platinum" Power Supply - Black £149.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 1300W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £129.95
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 1000W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £119.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 850W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £89.99
Total : £499.51 (includes shipping : £8.00).

The EVGA is also Superflower but has a 10year warranty.

Ronald · 1 Dec 2014 at 19:32

What about going for the slightly more expensive, and very slightly faster 970 GTX?

Two of those should run fine off a quality 750 watt as their tdp is around 100W less per card, so no need to upgrade the PSU?

3wgs3 · 1 Dec 2014 at 21:20

good news so far i thought i would have to update every thing

stulid · 1 Dec 2014 at 21:26

You're just lacking GFX power.

3wgs3 · 23 Oct 2015 at 18:06

hi little update ended up, up grading to a MSI Radeon R9 380 Gaming 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card amd what a difference cant wait to water cool it