Gaming upgrades and decisions.

Fragil1ty

Fragil1ty

Fragil1ty

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Hey guys, I'm looking into buying some upgrades as I'm getting more into PC gaming again so I thought, I'd like to have some upgrades for myself.

The upgrades are as follows:

HIS ATI Radeon HD 6970 IceQ Turbo 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £299.99

Cooler Master HAF X Gaming Tower Case - Black (RC-942) £149.99

Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive [CT128M4SSD2] £147.98 inc VAT

Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CMPSU-850TXV2UK) £104.99

Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard (920-000978) **BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL DEAL** £99.98

Logitech G9x Laser Mouse (910-001153) £46.99

G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL )

Antec Tri-Cool 3-Speed 120mm Fan - Black x2 £7.96

Total: £749.99

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Some of the decisions made?

I was going to either buy a Macbook Pro or get these computer upgrades and now seeing as am slowly but surely getting back into PC gaming, I thought I may as well get the PC parts.

The SSD due to the fact that is where my Windows installation and adobe products are going to go because I work a lot on Fireworks, Photoshop, Flash and Dreamweaver for Uni.

New Peripherals such as Mouse/Keyboard because I'd like new ones and I'm tired of using this old junk.

PSU and GPU are essential because I've currently got a stock 750w from the company I bought this machine from and it's absolutely terrible, this is along side a ATI 5770 and it's out of date now, it has a hard time playing BF3 at anything above 60fps on high. I like to have 60fps in all games or I find it a little hard to play at times.

The cooler master HAF X replacing my current Antec 300, I'm going for this case as it has been recommended by many, many friends and it is truly an amazing case, although the £149.99 price point is fairly horrific in my opinion.

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If you have any help/advice/tips for me? that would be great, if you know of any products that would better me, then that would be absolutely fantastic.

Thanks a lot,
Fragil1ty.
 
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Hi
Overall it looks quite good
But I'd change the SSD to the Crucial M4, it's better
And you may want to consider a modular PSU
Do you need 850w? Only if you're going for future Xfire and even then 750 would do, if you're not then 650 would be plenty even
 
95thrifles said:
Hi
Overall it looks quite good
But I'd change the SSD to the Crucial M4, it's better
And you may want to consider a modular PSU
Do you need 850w? Only if you're going for future Xfire and even then 750 would do, if you're not then 650 would be plenty even
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Would the Crucial SSD be more expensive because I'm kind of working on a budget.

I am not running crossfire but erm, I'd like to have enough power just safe keeping! I would love a modular PSU though, that'd be amazing.
 
As you can see here - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18316485 - the M4 SSD is the one to have, I see you have edited your post to swap to this drive, good move:)

Here is a modular, Seasonic made, Silver efficiency rated PSU - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-001-XF&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat= - still plenty of power too.

You r spec is great then:)

Just one question, why the two extra fans? the case doesnt need any more airflow, its already top notch as it is.
 
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stulid said:
As you can see here - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18316485 - the M4 SSD is the one to have, I see you have edited your post to swap to this drive, good move:)

Here is a modular, Seasonic made, Silver efficiency rated PSU - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-001-XF&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat= - still plenty of power too.

You r spec is great then:)

Just one question, why the two extra fans? the case doesnt need any more airflow, its already top notch as it is.
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Is that a good psu though? I don't want to go ahead and buy it for it to be not as good as the corsair! but i'll read the reviews and then see what's going down!
 
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