Check my upgrade please

Oddw1re · 19 Feb 2010 at 23:56

Im going to be upgrading soon and would like some input from you guys.
I will be keeping
Power suply: Corsair 520w
Case: Lian Li PC-7B
CD/DVD Drive: ide
Hard Drives:1 sata and 1 ide

This is what i was looking at getting:

Im not sure if the graphics card will fit in the case because some people say its huge.

What do you think?
Can you make it any better?
The budget is £500

Thx

Fallen god · 20 Feb 2010 at 01:05

I would recommend getting a 5770 its a lot better than than GTX 260 and it comes with DX11, also you could maybe get a better heat sink if you wanna hit 4.0GHz.

5770 - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-216-SP

MonkeykingZX · 20 Feb 2010 at 01:14

Fallen god said:
I would recommend getting a 5770 its a lot better than than GTX 260 and it comes with DX11, also you could maybe get a better heat sink if you wanna hit 4.0GHz.

5770 - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-216-SP

the 260 beats the 5770 in quite a few benchmarks actually just depends on whether he wants/cares about dx11 and a lot lower power consumption

chaosquall · 20 Feb 2010 at 02:51

i would really say get rid of the ide hard drive unless you really manage to place it in there neatly the cables can really restrict airflow hard drives are really cheap now adays

Fallen god · 20 Feb 2010 at 02:57

MonkeykingZX said:
the 260 beats the 5770 in quite a few benchmarks actually just depends on whether he wants/cares about dx11 and a lot lower power consumption

Well i was looking at a lost of benchmarks on games and almost all the 5770 came out ontop, i think in just 1 game the 260 won.

stulid · 20 Feb 2010 at 03:01

The gtx260 is the faster card, even a ati4870 is faster than a 5770.

Fallen god · 20 Feb 2010 at 03:03

**** my bad i was comparing it to the 250 no idea why XD.

Oddw1re · 20 Feb 2010 at 13:50

chaosquall said:
i would really say get rid of the ide hard drive unless you really manage to place it in there neatly the cables can really restrict airflow hard drives are really cheap now adays

My cd/dvd drive is ide as well though so the cable will still be there unless i buy a new hard drive and optical drive. But that's more money

Also I've changed the CPU cooler to a Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus.

Still unsure about what graphics card though

Strawberry · 20 Feb 2010 at 15:03

Or you do it like me and get IDE cables that are bundled together.

Oddw1re · 20 Feb 2010 at 16:07

Strawberry said:
Or you do it like me and get IDE cables that are bundled together.

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I never thought of that.
I think ill be adding one of them to my list :D