Low cost upgrade

RCoon · 4 Nov 2011 at 09:25

I'm looking to do some minor upgrade increments to my system within the price range of £1-200. I'm not all that hyped about water cooling, so I'll leave out that area. The only thing I have planned for the next few months is to upgrade my current MSI Radeon 6850 power edition to a 2Gb 6950/6970.

Current Specs:
Antec LANBoy Air Case
800W PSU
6 Sharkoon Silent Eagle 120mm Fans
Coolermaster V8 CPU Cooler
16GB Ripjaws 1333 memory (4x4gb)
MSI HD R6850 Cyclone Power Edition
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8Ghz
2Tb 7200 6Gbps SATA III 64mb drive
Asus M4A87TD EVO Motherboard

olivier renault · 4 Nov 2011 at 10:17

Sure thing. I'd overclock the CPU (3.4, 3.7GHz, got 3.6 with a H50 without trying too hard), and then that should do really.

Doomedspeed · 4 Nov 2011 at 10:32

Apart from Overclocking i see no real need for an upgrade here. Not until you get a 6950/6970, though it may be worth waiting until the new 7*** series. Your 6850 will be able to play most modern games quite easily.

nelviss · 4 Nov 2011 at 10:54

hows about a SDD? apart from that some faster memory, you MB can use up to 2000MHz (with OC).

Sasahara · 4 Nov 2011 at 11:26

SSD no question, even a cheap SATA II model will make a marked difference.

beejjacobs · 4 Nov 2011 at 12:05

nelviss said:
hows about a SDD? apart from that some faster memory, you MB can use up to 2000MHz (with OC).

Not much point in memory above 1600Mhz, not really worth the money and makes little difference. And 1333Mhz will be fine, there are better ways to spend money IMO

RCoon · 4 Nov 2011 at 12:37

I'm looking at 16gb of vengeance 1600Mhz RAM and a 120Gb corsair SSD.
Think I'll put the new GPU on hold, at least until something substantial comes out!
As for the OC on the processor, I've already OC'd it to 3.3Ghz.
I've also OC'd the GPU core speed to 850Mhz