Hi, had a great experience getting advice on here on my first build and ordering from OC about 3+ years ago but now the system is getting very rusty and definitely needs an upgrade!! 
New games (Shogun 2 FOTS etc) are having to be run in medium / low or the whole system is crashing...
Anyway - I do not have a huge amount of cash to play with, MAX £400 I reckon. I know I need a new graphics card but otherwise I'm unsure of where the bottlenecks are and no idea on what new products to buy... any advice is much appreciate...I guess it's gaming performance that interests me most.
Here's the current system...
Operating System:
Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) Service Pack 1
Case:
Cooler Master Elite 335 Case - Black
Motherboard:
Asus M4A78-E AMD 790GX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Memory:
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz TwinX Dual Channel (TW3X4G1333C9)
Graphics card:
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850 "XXX Edition" 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Processor:
AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail
Power:
OCZ StealthXStream 500w Silent Power Supply
Cooler:
Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM3/LGA775)
WD 1TB 3.5" SATA-III Caviar Green Internal Hard Drive - 7200RPM 64MB
Philips 221V2SB TFT LCD Full HD 22" DVI Monitor
Pioneer DVRS19LBK 24x DVD±RW DL & RAM with Labelflash SATA Optical Drive
Not sure whether this system needs mainly starting from scratch or whetehr can upgrade critical components in budget and maybe leave 1 or 2 bits for another upgrade in 6 months or a year??
Any help very gratefully received
New games (Shogun 2 FOTS etc) are having to be run in medium / low or the whole system is crashing...
Anyway - I do not have a huge amount of cash to play with, MAX £400 I reckon. I know I need a new graphics card but otherwise I'm unsure of where the bottlenecks are and no idea on what new products to buy... any advice is much appreciate...I guess it's gaming performance that interests me most.
Here's the current system...
Operating System:
Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) Service Pack 1
Case:
Cooler Master Elite 335 Case - Black
Motherboard:
Asus M4A78-E AMD 790GX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Memory:
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz TwinX Dual Channel (TW3X4G1333C9)
Graphics card:
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850 "XXX Edition" 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Processor:
AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail
Power:
OCZ StealthXStream 500w Silent Power Supply
Cooler:
Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM3/LGA775)
WD 1TB 3.5" SATA-III Caviar Green Internal Hard Drive - 7200RPM 64MB
Philips 221V2SB TFT LCD Full HD 22" DVI Monitor
Pioneer DVRS19LBK 24x DVD±RW DL & RAM with Labelflash SATA Optical Drive
Not sure whether this system needs mainly starting from scratch or whetehr can upgrade critical components in budget and maybe leave 1 or 2 bits for another upgrade in 6 months or a year??
Any help very gratefully received
