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Could anyone help?,What card do i need

Mineman

Mineman

Mineman

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Hey!
Iam looking to upgrade my pc and was not sure what card i need to get on my system.

Specs:
Motherboard: ASUS M5A78L-MLX
RAM:4GB

Could you also tell me what the best PSU would be to run that + my system

Many thanks-Jake
 
Hi Mineman,
As you can see from my system in my sig, i have the same Cpu as you but also a Gigabyte 7970 Ghz edition and my thoughts are;
The cpu isn't "that bad" maybe not as bad a people think anyway, it's done the job for me in all the games i've thrown at it so far, but.....
It's not great, and while it's worked for me, please bare in mind that it's with the CPU overclocked to high heaven (4.6 for the most part and now 4.9-5.0ghz depending on game) so the card could breathe as much as possible and not get bottlenecked.
You will need to overclock the cpu to get the best Fps possible.
My advice to you would be to get an FX8350 and a 7950 if you have £400 to spend, you'll noticed a huge difference in fps and depending on your Res, you should have no problem maxing out any games.

I'd also like to add that a few days ago i had the chance to pop a FX8350 in my rig, and even at stock clocks, my scores in both 3dmark firestrike and heaven valley benchmarks increased by a fair bit, Showing i believe that even at 5Ghz, the fx4100 was still bottlenecking my card.
 
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Yeah jake ;)
If you can also upgrade to 8gb or ram like Rilot suggests too.
You may need to update the bios on your motherboard before installing the Fx8350.
Will be a powerful system with all that done pal.
 
Go for it pal;)
Will be a big difference in performance too!, just bare in mind like i said, to get the most out of the card, overclock your Cpu, with decent cooling 4.6 should be easy enough to get!
 
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