Time for an upgrade

[JWhibley]

Morning Everyone,

So its come to that time where I want to upgrade my machine again, luckily as i'm in no real rush budget inst a massive issue (of course under £500/£600) would be good.

Current spec below;

Processor: Intel i5-3570K @ 3.40 GHZ
RAM: 8GB
GFX Card: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series, Total Memory 4GB, Dedicated Memory 2 GB
Storage: 931GB Seagate ST31000524AS ATA Device (SATA)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z77-DS3H

If you need anymore information let me know, look forward to your thoughts!

J

 

[JWhibley]

Good morning,

What do you use the computer for, other than basic tasks?

If you game, what res/refresh rate is the monitor?

Do you have an aftermarket cooler or Intel stock?

Which case is it all in?

Which PSU?

Gaming mostly, I have a work laptop so most tasks are done on that.
Intel stock, no aftermarket cooler.

It is in a novetech gaming case and a ******** 500w PSU.

1080P 1920x1080 60hz screen

 

[JWhibley]

Danny,

Few questions for you, it does look like I have a cooler on the CPU, would it be to take the old one off and swap them over?
Regarding the GFX, would you run 2 simultaneously and if so is there a way to dedicate 1 to gaming only or will it split the load over the 2 GFX's card?

3rd and final question, if I install a SSD also, can I transfer windows over to just run off the SSD and then allow the 1TB hard drive I have as storage space?

Will defiantly think about getting another case too!