Upgrade - current choices; can anyone do me better?

Omaeka

Omaeka

Omaeka

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Well I am currently running with the Titan 8000a Krypt prebuilt from OcUK; more details - with a HD6850.

I'm happy with what it does at the moment but really feel like I need a new processor, I've asked before and after quite a lot of discussion with some brilliant forum members I came to the conclusion that this would be my best bet:

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Can anyone do me better for the price? £400 is my budget, may be able to stretch to £450. I'd just look myself but I know nothing about hardware and would like some informed opinions.

I'm not limited to hardware that is available right now, I'll most likely be upgrading sometime in October, so if there's any good hardware coming out between now and then, don't be afraid to suggest it :)

I have a OCZ ZS 650W Bronze PSU and was also wondering if that's enough to run the new hardware? I'll upgrade to a nice 850W at some point, but I'd rather it be the last thing I upgrade, unless I need to.

Mobo/Proc > GPU > SSD > Monitor > PSU.

Thanks! :)
 
Why aren't you going for the 3570k, and then overclock it to around 4.2GHz?

Then you'd see a massive improvement my friend!

Also, I think the 7850's performance is close to that of the 6950 - and the 6950 is a bit cheaper at that!

I can't see why it won't be enough power coming out of that OCZ ZS to power them together!
 
I really do not want to overclock :/ after trying to do it with my GPU I'm absolutely terrified of doing it to my CPU. :p

Thanks for the info, including the power supply. :)

Can anyone confirm the 6950 vs the 7850?
 
you need to get a bridging cable, something like the sli cable that joins the 2 cards together

and well..
intel 3570k vs the amd fx4100 = no contest
 
well xfire 6850 pushes out more pixels in theory compared to the 7850 or 6950
but, you're limited as it only has 1gb of vram compared to the 6950/7850 which has 2gb (depending on what resolution you play games at)
also upgrading later on, if you are using xfire 6850 is kinda hard too ;p
and you need a psu which is capable of supplying enough juice to run 2 cards instead of 1.

if you can sell your 6850 and put that money into getting a 7850, that would be best, cuz you can massively overclock the 7850 easily
 
How much would a second hand 6850 fetch? I'd rather not xfire a 1GB, I'd rather get a 2GB, that way I'm only a few hundred extra squid away from a 4GB xfire later on down the line.
 
Omaeka said:
How much would a second hand 6850 fetch? I'd rather not xfire a 1GB, I'd rather get a 2GB, that way I'm only a few hundred extra squid away from a 4GB xfire later on down the line.
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dosent work like that im afraid mate.

if you xfire a 2 gig card with another u still only have 2 gig of vram.
 
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