Trying to justify an upgrade

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I've had my rig for over 2 years now, it's served me pretty well;


Intel Pentium E5200 @ 3.20GHz
4GB DDR2 RAM
ATI 5750 (upgraded from 4850)



I want to run the next wave of games at high settings with anti-aliasing/HDR etc, and this current build is not capable of doing that for the majority of games. I have a budget of £270, and I was thinking of waiting for the 7000 series of ATI cards before upgrading.

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My questions are;



Would my graphics card be a major bottleneck?


Is now a good time to upgrade in this lifespan of hardware?


Would the performance increases added by the above hardware justify the cost?


My PSU is at 600W, is this enough to power the above?


Cheers,

Daniel
 
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i would say not, there have been no real benchmarks yet, and iirc most of the bf3 displays were done with nvidia 580 gtx cards.

if thats your main game then i would suggest holding off until the bench marks are released for bf and see how your current setup runs.

what size monitor do you have and what resolution do you currently game at ?




I have a 32" HDTV @ 1360x768
 
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