Upgrade options on 4 year old system ?

Angus02

Angus02

Angus02

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Hi,

Just wondering if there is any sensible upgrades on this spec that would give me a good performance boost without costing the earth or is it time for a new rig ?


2 x MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti OC Twin FrozR II 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express

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

Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbs Solid State Hard Drive

OCZ Z-Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply

Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual


Regards
 
If you play games then a new gfx card.

While you have two you should find a single new card stronger overall especially when sli doesn't work.


Overclock the CPU (add a chunky heatsink) and you will be fine with that for awhile longer.
 
Thanks

Meant to say on the spec list that it has a Corsair H100 Cooler

Never overclocked the CPU so far.

PC is mostly used for gaming so what the best bang for buck on a single card ?

Take it the 8GB Ram is okay for playing games for a while yet ?
 
GTX970 also plenty of bang for bucks.

Overclock CPU to 4.4GHz, or higher. The Extreme 4 has automatic overclock presets, if you don't know how to do it (although Sandybridge is one of the easiest CPU to overclock manually). Got a 2500K to 4.4GHz without really trying on that board. Run OCCT, or whatever stress and monitoring software for a few hours, check for stability.

Could also try to find a unmolested 2600K / 2700K. They are still expensive second hand though.
 
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