Upgrade advice -

It's been ages since I last posted. Same question as after last posting I was unable to financially afford the upgrade. Set up is still the same as shown with 2 1tb drives and 1 120gb system drive. Want to upgrade for around £300 and would like to be able to play COD ghost and do photo editing...thanks :)
 
Your gonna struggle for that price.

im thinking of a 6300, 970 evo board and RAM. Which will be around £240.. Then you need a new GPU.. Id atleast set aside £150 for this. A 270X atleast.

That's around £400 (though of reccomend an extra £30-£60 for a CPU cooler)..

Thoughts?
 
Idleman said:
This as Doomed says. Does your cooler have AM3+ fittings?

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1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Boost OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card £149.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD38G1600HC9DC01) £59.99
Total : £401.35 (includes shipping : £9.50).

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Read my mind.. :)

M3T4Lghost said:
Would my existing graphics card be compitable with a new mobo bundle setup? I can then update my graphics card at a laer date.
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You could, but you won't really see any/much performance increase until you add the graphics card.
 
Thanks for the feedback. If i was to leave the graphics card for another month or so and just get the main mobo setup for now whats the best i could get for the £300 including a decent cpu cooler?
Also will my corsair 520w be enough for the latest hardware or will i need to consider upgrading that also bearing in mind im currently running 2 sata and 1 ssd on my system currently?
 
M3T4Lghost said:
Would my existing graphics card be compitable with a new mobo bundle setup? I can then update my graphics card at a laer date.
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Doomedspeed said:
You could, but you won't really see any/much performance increase until you add the graphics card.
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Core 2 upgrade to Haswell/Ivy, sure you will.. there is a definite and noticeable difference between the Core 2 system we have and the i5 i'm on now, in both gaming and general use.

M3T4Lghost said:
Thanks for the feedback. If i was to leave the graphics card for another month or so and just get the main mobo setup for now whats the best i could get for the £300 including a decent cpu cooler?
Also will my corsair 520w be enough for the latest hardware or will i need to consider upgrading that also bearing in mind im currently running 2 sata and 1 ssd on my system currently?
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Stretch your budget another £40 - £50 and you'll have the option to go Haswell and do a bit of clocking(free cooler with mobo)..

The PSU will be just fine for a single GPU.

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1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x MSI Z87-G43 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard - FREE Alpenfohn Civetta Cooler!! £95.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G1600HC9DC01) £59.99



Total: £345.56 (includes shipping: £8.00)
 
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To be totally honest i was just going for that mobo due to reviews i've read and still very happy with my copperhead.

Came up with this setup too based on your advice and other advice i've read on here.



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1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £185.99
1 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) **FREE SHIPPING** £185.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Sapphire Blue" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G213C1KBL) £69.95
Total : £551.92 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
M3T4Lghost said:
To be totally honest i was just going for that mobo due to reviews i've read and still very happy with my copperhead.

Came up with this setup too based on your advice and other advice i've read on here.



YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £185.99
1 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) **FREE SHIPPING** £185.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Sapphire Blue" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G213C1KBL) £69.95
Total : £551.92 (includes shipping : FREE).

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Makes for a very good upgrade. :)
 
Cheers for the feedback. My current machine is near 6 years old so very out of touch so been trying to catch up on here.

Would my corsair 520w still be okay do you think?
 
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