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New gfx card? or new system?

tkfmmaxi

tkfmmaxi

tkfmmaxi

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Hi all
I,m in need of some expert advice please!.
Ok i have a pc which is ok but i want to upgrade my gfx card..but i,m not sure what to get.
I have XFX 5850 atm and i,m looking to purchase a new card for around £350.00. Here is the problem will my pc beable to handle a bigger faster card my system specs are
Operating System
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 930 @ 2.80GHz Clocked to 3.36
Bloomfield 45nm Technology
RAM
12.0 GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 640MHz (8-8-8-23)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X58A-UD3R (Socket 1366)
Graphics
VH226 (1920x1080@60Hz)
ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series (XFX Pine Group)
Hard Drives
60GB M4-CT064M4SSD2 ATA Device (SSD)
932GB SAMSUNG SAMSUNG HD103SJ ATA Device (SATA)
My PSU is a Corsair HX850W Pro series
So should i stick with this system and will it run ok with a bigger card? thanks for looking and hopefully answering my question
Baz
 
Well if I was you I would be looking to sell the 5850 for around £70. That gives you £420.

I would sell your processor, mobo and ram, and be looking to upgrade to a 2500k, perhaps a cheap P67 motherboard and 8GB of RAM and a decent cooler with the intention of overclocking to around 4.5GHz.

you should have around £200 left depending on how much you sold your parts from, so I would be looking to stretch to a 7950 and overclocking it.

That would be a huge total upgrade for your system.
 
thanks for the info ....so your saying this system is dated ? if so i would just rather sell it as it is and buy a new system for around £1500.Icant be bothered with taking bits out and trying to sell em on auction sites!.I had a bad experience with ebay when i sold a mobo and the guy said it was faulty........it was when he sent it back so i lost my money and no mobo!!!.
 
OK so if i buy a 7950 will i notice much difference in performance?.or is it best to get a new pc which will be a lot quicker...........i dont want to start adding stuff to this rig if theres going to a bottleneck anywhere?
Even my SSD drive is slow half the read write times it could be (i think thats cos i dont have sata3 on my mobo).
 
Where do you live? I'm sure someone on the forum could build you a new rig if thats what you are looking for. There really is no need to spend £1500 on a PC. You would just be paying PC world a few hundred quid extra thats all.
 
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