Gaming PC Upgrade?

MegaMisFiT

MegaMisFiT

MegaMisFiT

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I know people will say my PC is nice and all but recently some of my friends have said I should upgrade my CPU because it's older. I bought most of this rig back in 2009 when the 5970 was the best around. But a lot has changed in the last few years and I haven't kept up to speed with a lot of new stuff. So I was wondering does anyone think I could upgrade anything, GPU, CPU ect. I'm not saying I will cos this PC has done me good so far but just incase.

Thanks.

System Specs
Asus ATI HD5970 2GB
Asus Rampage Extreme II
i7 920 @ 3.0ghz
Corsair 6GB Ram DDR3
Corsair 1000w Modular PSU
Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB Raid0
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II
Coolermaster Cosmos RC-1100 Sport
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
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Are you happy with it? That CPU will last for 3 more years, same with the rest :)
Your friends are trying to waste your money
 
Grab yourself a nice big CPU cooler (while making sure the ram won't hit it) alternatively you could use a self contained watercooler from Antec or Corsair. Then overclock that i7 to as high as poss (should hit near 4Ghz+) then you don't need to upgrade anything for a good while! :)
 
SouthEastBlue said:
Grab yourself a nice big CPU cooler (while making sure the ram won't hit it) alternatively you could use a self contained watercooler from Antec or Corsair. Then overclock that i7 to as high as poss (should hit near 4Ghz+) then you don't need to upgrade anything for a good while! :)
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I have tried overclocking the CPU quite a few times. I have a Corsair h50 watercooling system. I used to be able to run a stable 3.8ghz then my bios reset and the only stable I've found without BSOD is back to 3.2Ghz.
 
MegaMisFiT said:
I have tried overclocking the CPU quite a few times. I have a Corsair h50 watercooling system. I used to be able to run a stable 3.8ghz then my bios reset and the only stable I've found without BSOD is back to 3.2Ghz.
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Is it good enough for you?
 
Have you tried to reset the BIOS by using either a motherboard jumper or removing the battery and unplugging everything? I remember when I had some unstable overclocks on past machines they seemed to store random settings that needed removing by BIOS reset.

Alternatively you could sell your old i7 kit for a few bob and grab yourself a new Ivybridge i5 based Z77 system from OCUK? But your old CPU even at stock should still be fine for all games.
 
T345 said:
Are you happy with it? That CPU will last for 3 more years, same with the rest :)
Your friends are trying to waste your money
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I'm happy with my PC since I got it, but partly not with the graphics card choice. Maybe because of the AMD CCC drivers. They don't seem as good as nvidia ones. The card is a great performer though I just wish it had nicer drivers.

But that's why I asked for some advise from people who follow this stuff. I only check some new stuff every now and again. I spent a lot of money on the rig back then to get my time out of it. Been 3 years so far and only issues I get are AMD related.
 
MegaMisFiT said:
I'm happy with my PC since I got it, but partly not with the graphics card choice. Maybe because of the AMD CCC drivers. They don't seem as good as nvidia ones. The card is a great performer though I just wish it had nicer drivers.

But that's why I asked for some advise from people who follow this stuff. I only check some new stuff every now and again. I spent a lot of money on the rig back then to get my time out of it. Been 3 years so far and only issues I get are AMD related.
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That card is an amazing card, still out performs a lot, sell it on fleabay for a good sum of money and get a 580/ 670
 
Maybe your drive issues are crossfire related, but I'm sure Nvidia have some trouble with SLI also so the grass isn't always greener. As T345 says, you would have more luck with one big powerful card rather than a dual GPU one that relies on good crossfire drivers to run at full power.
 
MegaMisFiT said:
I agree the card is very nice. It has kept up its name very well with the list of new cards. But atm the nvidia cards are really shining.
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Yeah, in the budget side, the 7850/70 is the leader, then in the high end Nvidia is the best value, 670 is one of the best :)
 
Yeah that's what I was thinking as well. Just the 5970 seems to always had issues with drivers which lets down its maximum performance.

But with the price range of the 690, even if I ended up selling my gfx card. I'd probably have to pay another £500+ on top of what I got from the card. (Although I got no idea what they go for second hand). Which seems like I'd be losing out somehow lol.
 
Dunno, don't really have a budget, was just looking out of interest. I didn't even expect to be upgrading at all. Just wanted to get some good advise (from people who know what they are on about).

Just list some possibilities. Keeping in mind I'm not rich so make it affordable :P
 
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