Upgrade help

tehtom

tehtom

tehtom

Associate
Joined
26 Jul 2007
Posts
102
Location
Northern Ireland
I've been looking to upgrade for awhile, mainly for gaming and budget is around £550.

Only need CPU, GPU, RAM and motherboard.

Heres what I've been looking at;

Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Far Cry 2 £205.99

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £185.99

Asus P8P67 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £124.99

GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC) £35.99

Total: £569.04 inc Delivery

Coming from a e2140, 2GB ram and 8800GTS. Just wondering if my power supply would cope with the new parts, its a Corsair 520w. My current case should be fine.

So, thoughts? any thing you would change or better parts for the money?

Thanks :)
 
Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Far Cry 2 £199.98

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £191.99

MSI P67A-GD55 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £129.98

GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC) £39.98

Total: £573.34

Gonna order this on the weekend unless anyone else can recommend some changes. Got a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 rev 2 on order for the CPU fan as well.
 
Last edited:
tehtom said:
Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Far Cry 2 £199.98

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £191.99

MSI P67A-GD55 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £129.98

GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC) £39.98

Total: £573.34

Gonna order this on the weekend unless anyone else can recommend some changes. Got a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 rev 2 on order for the CPU fan as well.
Click to expand...

You could get a fiver off if you went for this mobo:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-447-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1906

to make it closer to your budget.

but ive heard a few better things over the net about the ASUS boards than the MSI boards
 
metbandit1 said:
You could get a fiver off if you went for this mobo:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-447-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1906

to make it closer to your budget.

but ive heard a few better things over the net about the ASUS boards than the MSI boards
Click to expand...

Yeah, that was the motherboard I was looking at first, lacks sli support though. I guess I could go ATI, with something like this spec.

Asus ATI Radeon HD 6950 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £209.99

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £191.99

Asus P8P67 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £124.99

GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC) £39.98

Total: £578 inc Delivery

Is the gtx 480 better than the 6950?
 
I absolutely recommend the GTX 560Ti over the 480. The 480 is based off an old Fermi design that runs incredibly hot and a real power drain, whereas the 560 is far cooler and more power efficient, plus it can be had for the same or even less money.

The 480 tends to have the edge in most performance tests, the 560 claiming a few for itself, but a modest overclock will put the 560 way ahead of the 480 and with far less heat and using less power.
 
The 6950 2GB would put out better numbers than a 480 (especially flashed to a 6970) and would outdo a 560 as well, but the 560 is a winner on heat/power still.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom