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bigstevex

bigstevex

bigstevex

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It's been a long time since I've looked at upgrading but my computers starting to feel slow on games now.

Currently have a
i5 2500K
Asus P8p67
8gb Ram, 120GB SSD (too small)
HD6970 (Way to underpowered now)

Case is an old Lian Li V2000 server case so anything will fit size wise, psu is a tagan 7 or 800w thing I've had for 5 years+ but it's never let me down or even coughed once so don't want to change that.

Hence, I need a new cpu/cooler/memory/mobo/gfx card/hard drive setup, I don't overclock either if that's a factor.

The graphics card must be eyefinity as I use 3 x 1080p monitors and capable of giving decent but not the best frame rates, I'm getting to old to be spending £400+ on just a gfx card these days.

The main things I do are photo editing and gaming. Don't need amazing storage as I have an 8TB Nas for that.
 
To be specific, I have 8GB (2x4gb) of Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600mhz

Worth upgrading at all?

Also my motherboard is only PCI-E 2.0 x16, will this have an affect on Graphics upgrade at all?
 
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If you haven't had any messages in Windows saying you are low on memory then 8GB is enough. I was getting those messages when playing on certain games and that is mainly caused by me turn off paging files. I prefer not having paging file enable on my SSD, so I upgraded to 16GB.

Your current PCI-E 2.0 wont affect your GPU upgrade.

2500K is still good enough. I think a better GPU and larger SSD will make the most difference for you. Then upgrade the CPU/mobo/RAM in a year or two.
 
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