Current situation

[EnzoSmithers]

Morning all,

i'm in a bit of a predicament at the moment. I currently use a i5 750 @ 4.0 ghz, 4gb of ram and an asus motherboard that the name of escapes me at the moment. I bought these as an overclocked bundle through OCUK as im hopeless/scared of flames when it comes to overclocking.

Recently I contacted OCUK about purchasing more ram,and adding it to the bundle, and if they could supply me with a few settings to reapply the clock however they advised me they could not do so.

I have in the case a xfx 5850 1gb gfx card, and im currently playing BF3 at about 55 fps which is not really ideal for me (@ 1920x1080 res).


My predicament is:-

do I buy an SSD, 16gb of ram and new GFX card and keep my existing mobo and CPU, and run them at the stock 2.66 ghz or try and work out how to mildly clock them?

or buy a new motherboard, an ivy bridge chip of some sort and run it stock which will probably give me a lot better performance over my i5 750 running stock clocks.

Obviously, the Ivy bridge option is about ~400-450 more than option A, but overall would it be a better (safer) bet?

Cheers for the opinions,

Rob

 

[EnzoSmithers]

thanks for the advise, your right i was going to go with 16gb purely due to how cheap it is but if its not really needed (i only use the machine forgaming web videos etc) then 8gb will suffice.

BF3 settings wise is a mixture of High with a few things on Medium, with a few things off (im at work and cant remember the names of them).

Budget wise, I have £1000 to spend in my bank account now that I have saved for this, however if I can not spend some of it to use for other things, then great. Im not going to spend for the sake of it, but also will not scrimp for the sake of £50-75 etc.

GFX wise, I really fancy a change to nvidia, with my current (and previosu) ATI drivers, whenever I minimise/maximise a youtube video, or open/close media player/VLC etc I get black flickering lines across the screen for a second. This only started to occurr after I updated the drivers last year, and upped the clock speeds on the GFx card, trying ot get a few more frames for BF3 upon its release.

I have done a lot of reading on the subject, tried to undo everything I had done, installed newer drivers etc, but to no avail. So i live with it for now, and plan to move to Nvidia now-ish.

Below a 680, whats the next best option, money/performance wise? I hope at my resolution it would see a sizeable increase in performance for BF3, and GW2 when it is released (omg beta starts tonight!!! majorly excited lol)

thanks again,

Rob