Upgrade Something or Nothing?

RoBoT · 10 Jul 2013 at 13:59

This is build specific, I am in 2 minds whether to upgrade everything in my case or just upgrade the CPU/mobo etc.

My current build has

Core i7 920 CPU with BeQuiet Cooler/heatsink
ASRock extreme 6 mobo (its not good, want to change but 1366 hard to find now)
WD Velociraptor HDD with OS on it
1TB WD Black with DATA
2x MSI 460 Hawk GFX cards
12GB RAM
850w PSU
Samsung T240 Monitor (thinking about change to Dell 2713HM)

So do I go for an upgrade bundle? (CPU, MOBO, Cooler, RAM)

Or do I upgrade just the Graphics cards?

The PC will be used for Photo Editing and Games

I have already seen that most people on here prefer INTEL and recommend it over AMD CPU

My graphics need to be Nvidia due to the CUDA being best for photo editing

Do I wait until the new gear with DDR4 RAM and just do graphics cards, monitor and HDD's now?

linktoinsanity · 10 Jul 2013 at 14:29

What do you not like about your current motherboard?

Specifications-wise your current system looks fine, maybe just upgrade the graphics cards to a single GTX770?

Also changing the Velociraptor to an SSD would help boost speed by quite a lot.

RoBoT · 10 Jul 2013 at 21:29

The mobo don't over clock so good, and my setup seems slowish

linktoinsanity · 16 Jul 2013 at 18:48

RoBoT said:
The mobo don't over clock so good, and my setup seems slowish

Overclocking isn't the end of the world, but maybe it's not the board, maybe you should try to look up settings in the overclocking section on here? Or ask...

The slow factor could well be down to other factors, one fantastic upgrade would be an SSD which would almost certainly fix that issue, even if it's indirectly due to the Windows reinstall.