i5 750 - graphics card upgrade

dholdi · 9 Jan 2013 at 21:24

I have the above processor in an Asus P7P55D PRO mb with 4gb of corsair ram.

I am planning on upgrading the graphics cards from the current 2 x 5770.

I was thinking along the lines of 2 x 7870.

Will my present setup prevent these from running at their best ?

I also intend to change to 8 gb of ram.

Any advice much appreciated.

zakblood · 9 Jan 2013 at 21:27

whats your psu?

dholdi · 9 Jan 2013 at 21:33

Cant remember the exact make but it was an expensive 750w modular

zakblood · 9 Jan 2013 at 21:35

then no it should be fine

dholdi · 9 Jan 2013 at 21:38

Ok thanks, I was a little worried with the cpu being a bit old that it might slow things down.

zakblood · 9 Jan 2013 at 21:40

if it does start to slow down, over clock it and it will last you another year or so, just get a better cooler etc for it, and your welcome

dholdi · 9 Jan 2013 at 21:50

Yeah, I got a better cooler and used the asus overclocking tool a while back to speed things up and that made quite a difference to cpu speed but slowed the ram down ?
I guess I need to get ram that can run at a higher speed when I upgrade that.
Thanks once again.

honosuseri · 9 Jan 2013 at 21:56

Your mobo can Xfire properly as the lanes run in sync (X8 and X8) and it uses DDR3 which is nice

Personally I'd look at a single 7950 which has more VRAM than the 7870.

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1 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) £239.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £41.99
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Start with that, I doubt you will need a second GPU unless you are running an eyefinity setup

dholdi · 9 Jan 2013 at 22:29

Mmmm, thats an interesting proposal and will certainly save some cash which can go towards the monitor i was also thinking about.

Thanks for your input.