Upgrade itch

passey89 · 4 Jul 2014 at 10:50

Right its really annoying me that I haven't really done many performance upgrades in the last 6 months so have just ordered new GPU, PSU & Mobo.

This is the current spec of my PC.

What would you upgrade next?

I am debating getting a 27" korean 1440p monitor to replace the Benq 1080

Only really play games and do a little bit of business. Occasional photoshop for business but that's it.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11227-03-40G) £299.99
1 x BenQ GL2450 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £119.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £109.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-UD3P AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £67.99
1 x Patriot Viper 3 "Venom Red" 8GB DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Single Module (P38G169UR) £65.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Zalman CNPS9900-MAX Blue LED CPU Cooler £39.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
Total : £899.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).

Doomedspeed · 4 Jul 2014 at 10:52

So in that spec the Motherboard/GPU and PSU are new?

I would have personally spent the money elsewhere.

passey89 · 4 Jul 2014 at 11:16

yeh this is with all the new parts.

mickyflinn · 4 Jul 2014 at 11:51

What case do you have ?

passey89 · 4 Jul 2014 at 12:35

just a standard ATX can't remember what it was tbh. got orange bars down the front sides. was only cheap

foster grant · 4 Jul 2014 at 12:41

Hows that Sapphire ?....I'm asking as I did have one ....but had issues with it

Doomedspeed · 4 Jul 2014 at 12:48

passey89 said:
just a standard ATX can't remember what it was tbh. got orange bars down the front sides. was only cheap

passey89 · 4 Jul 2014 at 12:54

Doomedspeed said:
I guess its this one: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-060-XG

a bit like that probably older model. Its got no mesh front and sold orange bars down the side

passey89 · 4 Jul 2014 at 12:55

foster grant said:
Hows that Sapphire ?....I'm asking as I did have one ....but had issues with it

perfectly fine only just got a psu powerful enough to OC it though and been sick so gonna put it to the test this weekend

Nathan94 · 4 Jul 2014 at 15:17

I'd look at getting a decent air-cooled case before sticking £900 of hardware inside it.