Help needed with an upgrade.

[slupczynski]

Dear overclockers community.

I bought my pc here a long time ago and it's time for a slight upgrade.
I'm primarly going to use it to play the new World of Warcraft expansion, and while it hasn't got the highest requirements, I'd like it to play smoothly and look beautiful.
My budget is rather small, 300-350 pounds.

Here's what I have.

AMD Phenom II X6 1055T, 2.80Ghz
4GB RAM
Win 7, 64bit
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti
some generic PnP Monitor
SATA 500GB Drive
Antec Three Hundred case
Corsair GS600 power supply
Corsair H60 liquid cooling (am I meant to maintain it somehow? I never touched it).

Now, what I'd like in the first place.

MONITOR. I'll be fine with 22'. I would love to have two, but not sure how I could fit that within a budget. The one I have atm is to be sold/given away as it looks like it's 2001. Maybe I could get one decent and one very cheap?

SSD. Everyone tells me if I'll get a 120GB one, install a game and OS on it, and nothing else, it will work like a charm. I want that. Any particular recommendations or something I should know? Oh, WoW folder will be around 35GB. (From what I understand I can have SSD and my SATA both at once, right? I'll just need to format 500GB which I'm fine with).

This would probably cost me around 150 already. More, if I'd be getting 2 monitors. Which component should I upgrade next, and within a budget?
Please help choose, I'm basically ready to make an order, but require some well minded advice.

 

[Randomface74]

Start saving for a completely new build. That system is OK but spending on it isn't really worthwhile.

A monitor is a good idea as it can be re-used.
Same goes for an SSD - if you end up using this as media PC or something you'd still be glad of having an SSD in it.

 

[slupczynski]

What sort of budget should I prepare for the following 'requirements' (This is a quote from a different forum about recommended requirements for said video game)?



"Nvidia GPU: GTX750 or GTX750 Ti should be adequate. Look out for Nvidias GTX950 / GTX950 Ti once they are released.
Intel CPU: Any I5/7 quad core from current generation
AMD GPU: Somewhere between 260x and 270x i believe.
AMD CPU: AMD FX-4100"

 

[Threepwood]

You wont have to format, simply install onto the ssd and you will be able to use your old drive no problem. It will make it easy transferring your wow folder, and it will leave you with a backup windows installation to use in case your ssd ever borks!

You can even install windows on the sdd via the existing OS on the mech drive.


Anyway, to business.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Inno3D GeForce GTX 970 OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £259.99
1 x Crucial MX100 128GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT128MX100SSD1) £54.98
Total : £324.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Buying any other GPU right now, other than the 970 at £260 just seems bonkers... might as well get one and use it, and the SSD as the base of an eventual new system.

Put the 'change' into a monitor fund, sell your old components and put that into the fund too. You want a cheap/nice 1440p monitor.

Is your phenom overclocked? It will be the weak link now, but you can see how it all performs and then buy a new, CPU/MB/RAM later if you are not happy.


Thems my thoughts anyway