Upgrade help

tehtom · 8 Mar 2011 at 22:40

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

tehtom · 8 Mar 2011 at 23:24

Liquid said:
That's looking great, what about an aftermarket cooler?

Yea I was looking at them, have a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 PRO for my e2140 at the minute. I think I'm correct in saying that it won't fit these new boards? although I'm not sure, its like 4 years old now.

What would you recommend?

tehtom · 9 Mar 2011 at 10:46

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.

tehtom · 9 Mar 2011 at 11:06

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

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?

tehtom · 9 Mar 2011 at 11:20

hybrid572 said:
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.

Yeah think I might go for the 6950 and maybe flash it in the future! Cheers