Need help with upgrades.

gibbingslfc · 1 Mar 2013 at 12:52

Just to start, my PC at the moment is this:

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor
ASUS P67 P8P67 Motherboard
Corsair Professional Series HX+ 650W '80+ Gold' Modular Power Supply
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C8 1333MHz Dual-Channel
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD
GeForce GTX 560 Ti Graphics Card
LG GH24NS95 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black)
I also have a small wireless card.

My case is some kind of silverstone Raven with the motherboard at 90 degrees, meaning you have to lift the top off to access USB ports and such, this has turned out to be a massive pain in the arse for me so i'm going to get another case.

I also want to upgrade my gfx card to be able to play most to all games on max settings with multiple displays. Can you recommend a graphics card, preferably Nvidia, that will accommodate me?

Also, I wondered about whether or not to invest in some water cooling, I have no experience with building a machine with watercooling so any help would be appreciated.

Lastly i'm sure these upgrades will require a new PSU so any recommendation will be welcome.

I have £1000~ to spend altogether.

Thank you.

gibbingslfc · 1 Mar 2013 at 18:10

Thanks to all; I'm going to leave the water-cooling as suggested, I'm going to get the Corsair case, SSD and gfx card and wait for Haswell before getting a new mobo and CPU.

gibbingslfc · 1 Mar 2013 at 21:29

Idleman said:
What cooler do you have on your i5?

I have a Prolimatech Megahalems Rev B with a couple fans.

gibbingslfc · 1 Mar 2013 at 22:41

Idleman said:
That`s ok, only asked as it was`nt in your spec and we are all recommending coolers.
I assume it`s OC`ed.

Yeah of course.

honosuseri said:
YOUR BASKET
2 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99 (£479.98)
1 x CM Storm Stryker Full Tower Gaming Case - White £139.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £99.95
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £59.99
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £44.99
Total : £939.88 (includes shipping : £12.50).

I know you asked for Nvidia but AMD is currently better bang for buck. A 670 is a slightly cut down 680 and that won't do MAX graphics on multiple panels from a single GPU and it would be nice to have the 4GB version of the Nvidia GPUs. The 7950 comes with games but there is supposed to be a huuuge free games bundle if you adopt Xfire from the get go.

Case is a personal preference, for dual GPUs a full tower would be nice. I look forward to seeing what you settle on.

I've decided on getting the cards you suggested, thanks.