To upgrad or to over clock [spec needed]

Orford

Orford

Orford

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Hi all, Lets hope my first post is a good one.

At the moment I am running a Q6600 go at 3ghz on air, P5Qpro, 4gb XMS2-8500C5 DDR2 ram, Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB, Corsair TX 650W ATX2.2 SLi PSU and one ATI 5770 1gb. On win 7 64bit os. in a Antec300

My dilema is do I go to water cooling with a H50 and a couple of apaches and try and get the most out of my CPU may be upto 4gb. A solid state 80gb intel drive as the os drive. Crossfire with another 5770. for around £500 and strangle the you know what out of my system to get some more performance for future games and aplications. Or do I call it quits on the old CPU and DD2 system and spend upto a £1000 on a OCUK rig.

This may sound a bit harsh to them that dont even have what I have now. The main reason for my thinking is I have come into some money, dont drink dont smoke (much) am married with enough kids to fill the subs bench and every thing else is sorted. Mores the point the wife said I can have a new PC. Its what I do to relax so ok. Do i grab with both hands or do I let the opertunity slip me by and be stuck with my PC as it is with some upgrades.

may seam like a life story but having money to spend is 1. Buring a hole in my pocket and 2. Want to get it right so I know I get the best bang for buck.

I have £1000 may be a bit more to spend. Can you give me a honest opinion what i should do please. also what spec.
 
I'd go for the new rig. I wouldn't let the chance pass me by. A new rig now would last you much longer than boosting the speed of your old rig.

I'll leave someone else spec though, something with i7 in I reckon.
 
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I would go with a new rig, nothing like a brand new system xD and £1000 should get you a nice system.
 
Tealc, I guess I just need to feel im doing the right thing.

Ryan, I have a Iiyama prolite 22" the bigest I can fit in the space I have. Running at 1440x900. So Im thinking just add another 5770 (£130) to give some over head rather as I dont need the big ress that a 5870 would need to push to justify £330. But yeh I was thinking of a i7 920 rig.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-025-OP&groupid=43&catid=1444&subcat=

Its has the H50 and would upgraded the graphics to the 1gb 5770. sell the old bits and then get a SSD.

Now you can understand wanting to get this right.
 
Orford said:
Tealc, I guess I just need to feel im doing the right thing.

Ryan, I have a Iiyama prolite 22" the bigest I can fit in the space I have. Running at 1440x900. So Im thinking just add another 5770 (£130) to give some over head rather as I dont need the big ress that a 5870 would need to push to justify £330. But yeh I was thinking of a i7 920 rig.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-025-OP&groupid=43&catid=1444&subcat=

Its has the H50 and would upgraded the graphics to the 1gb 5770. sell the old bits and then get a SSD.

Now you can understand wanting to get this right.
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Why not send them a web note and ask them to upgrade the 5770 512 in the machine to the 1024 version they are only £15 extra
then just add in your current 5770 for instant crossfire if you were also to get them to add in the intel ssd you were thinking of it would come out at £1050 just a shade over your current budget of £1000

then sell your current cpu/mobo and ram should get you anything between £150-£200 then use this to upgrade your monitor to a 22" which supports either 1680 x 1050 or 1920 x 1080 which can be had for less than £150
 
sir-les-mp said:
Why not send them a web note and ask them to upgrade the 5770 512 in the machine to the 1024 version they are only £15 extra
then just add in your current 5770 for instant crossfire if you were also to get them to add in the intel ssd you were thinking of it would come out at £1050 just a shade over your current budget of £1000

then sell your current cpu/mobo and ram should get you anything between £150-£200 then use this to upgrade your monitor to a 22" which supports either 1680 x 1050 or 1920 x 1080 which can be had for less than £150
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This.

You can get some great monitors at that price range now, and the extra screen estate on a 1920x1080 is really worth it. ( I'm using that on a 16" laptop and its a hard to read of without my glasses, but 22" would perfect)

Dual 5770 performance is comparable to a 5870, so it makes sense every way you look at it :)
 
Great ideas thanks all,

Ive decided to go for the full system why I have the chance. extra 5770 and a Intel SSD. Then sell my old stuff to ofset my guilt by buying the wife some flowers and shoes.

The monitor i have can do 1680x1050 but in the games I play they struggle with that res with the Q6600. DCS:Blackshark, Flight sim, Project reality are all CPU hungury.

Once again thanks.
 
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