Newcomer looking to "refresh" current PC :)

m4rt

m4rt

m4rt

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Hi all,

I'm looking to refresh my PC at home, it gets used for the odd game, photography, general office stuff when working from home and general internet browsing / streaming / music.. the norm :)

The case is fine, as is the PSU, I think it's 500W, but I can double check that.

Currently it has:
Asus P7P55D-E Rev 1 (Bios up to date)
Intel Core i5 760 - 2.8Ghz
4GB RAM (2x2GB)
ATI Radeon 6800 Series
64GB OCZ-VERTEX2 - Main OS
500GB Data Drive SATA2

Running Window 8 Pro

Dell U2410

I don't have a massive budget, but just looking to freshen up, make it a bit "nippier"

Would I be needing to upgrade the motherboard, or can I still get components to go in this board? Maybe the CPU and Memory, a budget graphics card that is better than what I have?

I was thinking whether I could crossfire? Can you still get a card that will crossfire with what I have?

Many thanks in advance and festive season greetings :)
 
Just whipped the side off, it's an OCZ 600W

I did take a look at the CPU's available and feared there weren't any, but wasn't mega sure, I'm a bit of touch, hence coming here :)
 
Doomedspeed said:
Do you know exactly what your GPU is? 6800 Series is fairly broad :)

Your board does support Xfire (x8/x8) so thats an option though your PSU may not like it..
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I'll stick my head in, that's what Device Manager and BelArc tell me it is. I was naughty and chucked the box out. But it might on the card, gimme a mo.
 
It's badges up Radeon HD 6850 with a picture of a sword on it?
Black casing all round the card, Red fan. Blue-ish sticker with sword.

Excaliber?

Bearing in mind I'm on my bum squeezing into a tight gap by my desk :)
 
Heh nice, 3 quotes for the price of 1 :)

£250 is ok, I didn't want to go massively into cost, a freshen up will be fine. I did have a nasty thought that I might be out of luck with a better CPU, if I recall Intel went from 1156 to 1155 about 4 weeks after I bought my system from OC :(

Thank you all very much for your help people :)
 
It has a massive cooler on it. A Venom something? Huge Silver heatsink with a big black and yellow fan on the side.

I think RAM and GPU will do it. I play a bit of Black Ops, CS:S, some WoW, SkyRim.. etc.

I can't say as I feel my PC is slow, but it does need a perk up with the newer games, Skyrim can be a bit nasty. I think it's down to my resolution though, I'm playing my games at my normal res : 1920x1200.. silly I know

This one but only 1 Fan
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-080-AK
 
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