Upgrade Options For an Aging PC

[Daveaka]

I'm starting to get back into gaming after a couple of years break, bought South Park-Stick of Truth (plays fine, tears a bit), Skyrim (not so good) & the new Borderlands (struggles a bit). It's just casual gaming really, a couple of hours here and there, but I'd like to play at 1080p with medium or if possible high settings on most games.

My PC is the following -
Mainboard : Asus M4A78T-E
Chipset : AMD 780
Processor : AMD Phenom II X4 965e @ 3400 MHz
Physical Memory : 8192 MB DDR3-SDRAM
Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series (XFX 4890 I think)
Hard Disk : Hitachi HCS5C1050CLA382 SATA Disk Device (500GB)
Hard Disk : Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120G SATA Disk Device (120GB)
Windows Performance Index : 7.4 on 7.9
Case : Soprano RS with front and rear Gelid Solutions Silent 12 fans


I've got an Arctic Freezer Pro 7 rev2. on the CPU.
I'm considering a GTX 750ti a R9270,80x, MSI AMD ATI Radeon 7950 Twin FrozR (the refurb £119 on here)..

as you can see my power supply was modded to include an power out via iec, I assume I'll have to stop using that..

Looking to spend £100-£150 tops. Is my cpu good enough? and what can my power supply handle ?.

 

[Daveaka]

Anyone ?. Would a R9270x,80 or 7950 be too much for my psu?

 

[andybird123]

Youve effectively got a 360w power supply, the 7950 and 280 would definitely be off limits, the 270 or 750ti would be fine

 

[Daveaka]

Youve effectively got a 360w power supply, the 7950 and 280 would definitely be off limits

Oh, that's no good then. Cheers, might give the 270x a whirl, just looking for a cheap and cheerful step up from an HD4890. Any other options to consider?

 

[Daveaka]

Thanks for the help you nerdy ****ers...