Potential Updgrade, Advice Needed?

CyberNerd

CyberNerd

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Hi all,

I'm currently contemplating on whether or not to upgrade my current system or to hold off until the new Intel Processors are released next year. If I decide to hold off, would it be worth while upgrading my current graphics card to tide me over until I do upgrade? I mainly use my PC for FSX not really much other gaming.

My current system is as follows:

Q6600 O.C to 3.3GHz
ASUS P5Q Pro Motherboard
4GB Corsair XMS2 DDR 2 800MHz Ram
EVGA 9800GTX+ SSC Graphics Card
Corsair 650w PSU
2 x OCZ Agility 3 120GB SSD one for the O.S and one purely for FSX
1x 500GB WD Caviar Black for large FSX add-ons such as REXe etc.
1 x 500GB Samsung Spinpoint F1 for documents etc.

I'm debating whether or not to upgrade now to:

i5 3570K with an Overclock of around 4.5GHz
ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 Motherboard
GeIL EVO Veloce Hot-Rod 8GB PC3-19200C11 2400MHz
Corsair Hydro H60 or H80 Cooler

Or buying a NVidia 660 GPU and a new monitor, as my current one only has a native resolution of 1440x900.

Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated.

Adam
 
Budget is no more than 500.

FSX runs ok on my current setup around 30fps in a small GA aircraft and fair weather with REXe textures and ORBX Australia, however I can't run anymore than 10% AI traffic or complex aircraft add-ons such as the PMDG NGX in heavy weather or complex sceneries.
 
Cheers for your responses guys.

I've had a look at your recommendations and crunched some numbers and this is what I've come up with.

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail
MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC Twin Frozr 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (Not sure if it will be worth me getting the more expensive one, as I'm unlikely to be in a position to upgrade my monitor anytime soon.)
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard (Am happy to go with the Gigabyte board, however I just preferred the look of this one)
GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler (I'm going to overclock so dont wnat to use the stock cooler)

All comes in at around £525

What are your thoughts?
 
I'm always unsure as to what cooler I should buy as there are so many. With regards to a case, I currently have an Antec 300 with an Arctic Freezer 7 installed.

I'm not sure what the case allows in terms of a maximum height of heatsink?
 
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