So my current PC is coming up to 3 years old, and am looking at a relatively modest upgrade.
My 580gtx has been acting up for a few months now, with one of the dvi ports shutting off (disabling 2nd monitor) when the card gets hot. Also been having some severe framerate issues in games that previously ran fine, so a gpu upgrade seems to be required, at least.
The CPU is a i5-2500k which I plan on keeping - any thoughts on this? The chip is 3 years old but I never bothered overclocking it - I suppose it'll last another couple of years if I move it into a new system? From what I can tell there isn't a lot of point spending 150 quid on a new cpu as the perfemance increase will be pretty minimal, assuming the sandybridge doesn't die on me in the near future.
Regardless of whether I upgrade the CPU, I plan on getting a motherboard as mine has been acting very quirky, and I've attributing pretty regular BSODs lately to be a fault here. It's an Asus P8P67 Intel P67 and always had a few quirks (like power shutting off and turning back on again when booting up), so it'd be good to get a new one.
The PSU is a XFX Pro 750W. Again, 3 years old but a solid make - would it be wise to buy a new one just in case, or should I be fine hanging on to this?
So this is my first draft:
Your basket
Asus GeForce GTX 770 DirectCU OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £275.99
Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (4x4GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (KHX16C9T3K4/16X)
£125.99
Gigabyte H87M-HD3 Intel H87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £73.99
Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G)
£65.99
BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Windowed Case - Black
£59.99
Total : £616.04
notes: opted for 16gb ram because I play a lot of shoddy unoptimised betas where having a ton of ram is a big boost to playability (current example: planetary annihilation)
Any thoughts or comments would be greatly appreciated! Cheers!
My 580gtx has been acting up for a few months now, with one of the dvi ports shutting off (disabling 2nd monitor) when the card gets hot. Also been having some severe framerate issues in games that previously ran fine, so a gpu upgrade seems to be required, at least.
The CPU is a i5-2500k which I plan on keeping - any thoughts on this? The chip is 3 years old but I never bothered overclocking it - I suppose it'll last another couple of years if I move it into a new system? From what I can tell there isn't a lot of point spending 150 quid on a new cpu as the perfemance increase will be pretty minimal, assuming the sandybridge doesn't die on me in the near future.
Regardless of whether I upgrade the CPU, I plan on getting a motherboard as mine has been acting very quirky, and I've attributing pretty regular BSODs lately to be a fault here. It's an Asus P8P67 Intel P67 and always had a few quirks (like power shutting off and turning back on again when booting up), so it'd be good to get a new one.
The PSU is a XFX Pro 750W. Again, 3 years old but a solid make - would it be wise to buy a new one just in case, or should I be fine hanging on to this?
So this is my first draft:
Your basket
Asus GeForce GTX 770 DirectCU OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £275.99
Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (4x4GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (KHX16C9T3K4/16X)
£125.99
Gigabyte H87M-HD3 Intel H87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £73.99
Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G)
£65.99
BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Windowed Case - Black
£59.99
Total : £616.04
notes: opted for 16gb ram because I play a lot of shoddy unoptimised betas where having a ton of ram is a big boost to playability (current example: planetary annihilation)
Any thoughts or comments would be greatly appreciated! Cheers!
