Updating my comp some..

miceormen · 7 Nov 2011 at 00:01

Hey all

The following spec has fueled my comp for about 4 years now (poss 5?)

Gigabyte ds3r
E8400
4gb corsair dhx
pny generic 8800gts 512mb

And has been great, but I wonder whether I'll struggle to play any of the upcoming titles: Saints Row 3, MW3 etc comfortably..

The biggest driving factor for an upgrade being I've found some money (Tax rebate!

)..

At the moment I'm looking at an SSD and a Killer NIC..

Could I make a noticeable graphics upgrade with the remaining £100 - or would any new graphics card be bottlenecked by my relatively old cpu now?

Cheers

UberGinge · 7 Nov 2011 at 00:08

Instead of buying the Killer NIC just use that money towards a graphics card?

fowler002 · 7 Nov 2011 at 01:34

whats the current psu?
mayb get a cheap q6600?

Reaper 392 · 7 Nov 2011 at 02:24

a network card will do precisely bugger all, especially in a lower end PC.

a review of them showed that it reduced your ping by ~2ms at best and didnt make a measurable difference for framerates. the only good thing they had to say about it was that the cards software allowed you to set priorities on downloads, which let you game with a reasonable connection and download stuff at the same time.

spend the money on a bigger graphics card

also, as the above have said, whats the make and model of the PSU

nikeair94 · 7 Nov 2011 at 02:28

You could always buy another 8800gts to sli with?

Reaper 392 · 7 Nov 2011 at 02:51

nikeair94 said:
You could always buy another 8800gts to sli with?

since he only has the 512MB one i wouldnt recommend this one bit. i have a 768MB GTX 460 and really feel like i need some more VRAM, so god knows what two low end 512MB cards would be like in SLI

miceormen · 7 Nov 2011 at 10:28

The network card was just a thought, in a house of xbox gamers at the moment and my ping's dipped a lot in the evenings.

Didn't buy a mobo supporting sli in the first place - waste then waste now.

PSU is a Corsair HX620, so I'm good for juice.

Would a 6870 be bottlenecked by my E8400? And is there much difference between it and the 6850?