Graphics card upgrade worth it?

Mailman86 · 10 Oct 2011 at 07:31

I'm looking for a cheap upgrade and I was wandering if there is any point in me just upgrading my graphics card to something like a 560Ti? Would I be bottlenecked by my processor? What kind of FPS difference do you think I would notice in games? I'm just looking for that bit extra as some games flag a bit when I turn up the details. I have no overclocks by the way as I've never done it before!

I currently have:

Corsair 650W PSU
Asus P5Q
Intel E8500
Nvidia 280 GTX
2x2GB RAM
Crucial M225 SSD

I game at 1920x1080 and I have a secondary monitor which runs at 1920x1200.

Mailman86 · 10 Oct 2011 at 13:14

pastymuncher said:
Is that E8500 overclocked at all? In that motherboard it should get to at least 4Ghz and possibly 4.5Ghz.

No it's not. Am I likely to see much of a real world increase in games then (significant increase in average game FPS)?

Mailman86 · 10 Oct 2011 at 13:43

Guess I'll give overclocking a go then. Wish me luck (I think I'll need it).

Mailman86 · 10 Oct 2011 at 15:52

I could afford to do it all now but I don't think I could justify that much given that it runs most games ok enough as it is. I was very tempted last night though but sense prevailed.

Mailman86 · 10 Oct 2011 at 20:43

Oh sorry I just realised that was a typo with the monitor resolution. My primary one runs at 1920x1080 (it's been a long few days).

I'm overclocking as we speaking. Going well so far.