Upgrade PC Help

ChinookTwoOne

ChinookTwoOne

ChinookTwoOne

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Evening all,

Hope your all well?

I'm hoping for a bit of solid advice about upgrading my rig, let me post my specs first...

Case: Coolermaster CM690 MkII Advanced Case

Processor: Intel Core i7-2600 Quad Core 3.40GHz 8mb Cache + HD Graphics

Motherboard: Asus P8z68-V/Gen3: PCI-E 3.0 Ready, SLI, CrossfireX

RAM: 8GB Samsung Dual-DDR3 1333MHz (2 x 4GB)

Graphics Card: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

Hard Disk: 1TB WD Caviar Black WD1002FAEX, SATA 6Gb/s, 64mb cache (7200rpm)

DVD Drive: 24x Dual Layer DVD Writer

Power Supply: Corsair 650W Enthusiast Series TX650, V2-80 Plus

Processor Cooling: Super Quiet 22dBA Triple a Copper Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler

OS: Win 7 Home Premium 64 Bit

Now I had a bit of trouble a couple of days ago and had to uninstall a lot of program's, which got me thinking that now was a good time to upgrade my system (something I've been meaning to do for awhile)

I upgraded the GPU late last year, but everything else is stock, so....

I'm thinking a new processor, motherboard and an upgrade of RAM. Also I'm guessing I will have to upgrade the PSU as well?

I've allocated around £400 for CPU/Motherboard (a bundle perhaps?) and whatever for the PSU. Of course I shall get all my parts from OC, as I've used before and found them excellent to deal with.

So any advice what will work for me and where to spend my money?

Thank you in advance!
 
Hi,

I do not see a SSD listed? if you dont have one then get one and reinstall the OS+programs onto that then wipe the HDD and use it as a separate drive to store stuff.

Is your CPU a "K" version?

And what do you use this PC for?
 
Sorry,

I also want an SSD and I'm pretty sure it isn't a K version. On that hand I have no interest in overclocking, not really my thing.

The main thing I use It for Is FSX, so purely a gaming rig etc...

Thanks!
 
So no need to upgrade anything apart from SSD & GFX?

I thought I would need to change out the CPU/Motherboard...by upgrading the graphics card again, would I need to give the system some extra punch with RAM? Is the CPU etc I have now ok then?

Because the system is a bit slow, this is why I thought the above
 
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CPU is ok, it can still be overclocked a bit (4 speed bins faster than max turboratio).

8Gb of RAM is fine for games.
 
GTX980 is available for that sort of budget, you need to check card lenghts against the 304mm of your case (till the HDD cages).

But the problem then is a 980ti is then "just" £100 more again.
 
Ok, so If I upgraded to a GTX980 and the SSD.

What about other parts? I mean your spending over £400 on a GPU, are you doing the card justice? Bearing In mind, this PC was custom built In 2012, so the parts are from then?

I'm just asking, as I'm not a techy guy.

Thanks
 
You could probably pick up a bigger / cheaper 850 EVO or equivalent Samsung update sometime around christmas period or January. When their bigger chips make it into new products. Else just buy one right now the samsung 850 evo.

Wouldn't bother upgrading your GPU until 2H2016. When the 16nm graphics start to come out.

DDR3 ram is a bit cheaper right now. So perhaps consider an opportunistic RAM upgrade.

Nothing else really warrants a replacement.
 
Do you actually play any other types of games apart from FSX ? If you don't you are wasting your money upgrading any part of that system... All you need to do is get a SSD and reinstall that system, the system should not be slow.

I don't have a SSD (WD BLACK as my boot drive and apps drive) and a 2600k sat at stock 99.99% of its life and it is is nowhere near being slow and I'm a serious power user and a Flight sim user since MS flight simulator came out ...


I would get a SSD, reinstall windows, make sure all drivers are the latest (including all intel and motherboard drivers).


Also 16GB is not going to make your FSX faster it is a 32bit application that can only access 4GB of RAM maximum. Your current system is a perfect FSX system and only thing that can make it better is a SSD.
 
Purgatory said:
Do you actually play any other types of games apart from FSX ? If you don't you are wasting your money upgrading any part of that system... All you need to do is get a SSD and reinstall that system, the system should not be slow.

I don't have a SSD (WD BLACK as my boot drive and apps drive) and a 2600k sat at stock 99.99% of its life and it is is nowhere near being slow and I'm a serious power user and a Flight sim user since MS flight simulator came out ...


I would get a SSD, reinstall windows, make sure all drivers are the latest (including all intel and motherboard drivers).


Also 16GB is not going to make your FSX faster it is a 32bit application that can only access 4GB of RAM maximum. Your current system is a perfect FSX system and only thing that can make it better is a SSD.
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Purg,

Thanks for that, I was hoping somebody who simmed with FSX would reply.

I'm aware of FSX limitations, I do play other games like FPS, strategy games etc I just wasn't going to list them all and wanted to say on thread.

With regards to SSD, do you think I'm better having one SSD for Win 7 and another purely for FSX?

Kind Regards
 
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