Upgrade advice wanted

Perywinkle

Perywinkle

Perywinkle

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Hey guys.

Don't realy keep up with hardware much these days, and I'd like to give my rig a bit more poke for gaming.
This is what i'm currently running with win7 64bit.



Just after some advice on best bang for buck upgrades.
I'm getting about 50fps in bf4 on high atm.
Would another 6950 make much difference? or am I better off going for a newer card?
Is the cpu going to be holding me back?

Looking at getting a BenQ 27" 120hz monitor to replace my old Hyundai to pretty things up a bit too.

Cheers :)
 
Best bang for buck upgrade would be a new GPU, and the R9 280X or R9 290 (if you're prepared to pay a bit more) would be the best bet I think.

Overclock your CPU, 4.5GHz should be achievable, and it won't hold you back at all.
 
4.5 on a 2500k is usually easily achievable there are guides and help in the oc section of the forum. And as said get 280x or above and a decent ssd the samsung evolution are top dogs atm :)
 
Cheers guys :)
What overclocking software do you chaps use for intel chips?
The one that came with the motherboard just puts the puter into a loop on startup.
Though I think I may need better cooling as OCCT is knocking out after a few mins as one of the cores went above 85.
 
not sure about how intel works but with amd all i do is just change the multiplier in the bios and then torture stress test it with prime95 i dont mess with voltages!
and you really do want a nice a custom cooler if you are over clocking
edit. and find out the safe load temps for that cpu so you know where the limit is when you stress it
 
It's the stock intel cooler that came with the cpu on there atm.
Are thos little water cooled jobies like the corsair one any cop? or am I better off going for a big air jobbie?
 
With a decent air cooler should not really go much above 70degrees safe is under 90degrees but no reason to go that high. 2500k just go to the bios multiplier start with a simple 40x multiplier. Their are a few other settings to change as we'll I'm not sure the configuration of your board. Type your board model into Google with overclocking guide and should get plenty.
 
Here is a few variants as well to consider. What i would say is the Mount Doom is a good air cooler cheaper then an AIO. The positve about an AIO is that your ram hight is not an impact on what you can buy.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £99.95
1 x NZXT KRAKEN X40 AIO Water Cooling Unit - 140mm £78.98
1 x Phanteks PH-TC14CS CPU Cooler - Blue £65.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
Total : £304.51 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Can you give us an upgrade budget?
 
What you have there will do you well. Think though Kraken slightly better performance has a bigger rad and fan and would fit nicely where your current exhaust fan is in the Enforcer :)
 
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