Help Upgrade my PC.

rosslad · 23 Sep 2011 at 07:49

Hey all,

I got my PC about 3/4 years ago and just recently upgraded my graphics card. However, as I havn't upgraded anything else since I'm finding it hard to play games. I can play Dead Island on 1920 x 1080 on full graphics but I get really bad fps lag after about 3 hours of play. This happens with all games I play and I eventually just have to play all games on low after a few hours of gaming.

As I'm currently in Sixth Form and don't really play during the weekday, I really bash my computer on Friday night and Saturday. I want a PC that will be able to cope with this 2 day gameathon.

Here's my spec:

Operating System - (Want to upgrade to Windows 7)
MS Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP2

CPU
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 50 °C
Brisbane 65nm Technology

RAM
4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 301MHz (5-5-5-15)

Motherboard
NF-MCP61 (Socket M2 ) 40 °C

Graphics
SyncMaster (1920x1080@60Hz)
1024MB GeForce 9800 GT (Undefined) 37 °C

Hard Drives
244GB FUJITSU MAXTOR S TM3250310AS SCSI Disk Device (Fibre)

Optical Drives
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S202H ATA Device

Audio
High Definition Audio Device

If you could give me some upgrade with the price, I'd be grateful. As I'm gonna ask for the upgrade for christmas anything within like £500-600 would be great as I'm also asking for the iPhone 5.

I want to be able to play games such as BF:3, Diablo 3 and GW2. I also don't need a monitor, mouse, etc.

Cheers

mp260767 · 23 Sep 2011 at 09:10

any idea what case and psu you have ?

edit: spec'd to include new case, psu and hard drive (not sure how old your current one is), if case/psu are not needed could use some of the money to get 3rd party cooler like the gelid.

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £173.99 (£144.99)

OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Deus Ex PC Game £131.99 (£109.99)

Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £99.98 (£83.32)

BeQuiet Efficient Power 600W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £64.99 (£54.16)

BitFenix Shinobi Gaming Case - Black £49.99 (£41.66)

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £31.99 (£26.66)

Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £30.98 (£25.82)

Sub Total : £486.60
Shipping : £11.75
VAT : £99.67
Total : £598.02

rosslad · 23 Sep 2011 at 13:35

OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Deus Ex PC Game £131.99 (£109.99)

Do you think I could keep my current 9800 ? I got it last christmas and it wouldn't wanna replace it already :L

mp260767 · 23 Sep 2011 at 14:03

rosslad said:
Do you think I could keep my current 9800 ? I got it last christmas and it wouldn't wanna replace it already :L

not really if your looking to play the latest games (bf3 etc) at anything close to 1920 x 1080 on full graphics.

rosslad · 23 Sep 2011 at 14:31

Alright, I don't plan on Overclocking so how would an i7 do?

Redmint · 23 Sep 2011 at 14:32

For gaming the difference between i5 and i7 is minimal regardless of overclocking.

rosslad · 23 Sep 2011 at 16:24

Well, I've looked around and talked to some good mates who are pretty decent with PC's and this is what I've come up with.

Intel Core i5-2400 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £159

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with FREE Batman: Arkham City PC game** £149

Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £99.98 (£83.32)

BeQuiet Efficient Power 600W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £64.99 (£54.16)

BitFenix Shinobi Gaming Case - Black £49.99 (£41.66)

8GB Corsair Vengeance Blue LP (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit - CML8GX3M2A1600C9B - £43

Western Digital Caviar Blue 750GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM £42

Total = £610

Davefran · 26 Sep 2011 at 19:30

You're better off leaving it till just before you order, prices will change a lot by then.
Plus I wouldn't recommend anything on the list above.