Upgrade time?

Soldato
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Hello All,

Posted this once before but it was a while ago.

Pc is about to be 2 years old and I would like to play crysis 3 nice and slick.

Current spec is

Gigabite P67 motherboard
2700K I7 chip overclocked to 4.5
8 gig 1600mhz ram
crossfire 6970

The powersupply and case are fine as are the hard drives. I'm on a prebuilt water cooling setup which is also fine.

So what would i be looking to change to if I had say 1k to spend? would the chip be ok to carry on for another year or so? I do have 3 monitors but understand crysis may not play smooth on good settings so perhaps settle for 1 monitor playing.

Any ideas?

Ross
 
You are plain sailing with your current setup, i'd honestly give it another year before seriously considering it. I see no mention of a Solid State Drive, do you have one?
 
Wait til haswell if you can.

Ivybridge is not a good upgrade for you.

The cards you have are still really good. I wouldn't upgrade them either.
 
Agree with all the above replies: your rig should stomp anything you throw at it for a good while yet!

EDIT perhaps up the ram to 16gig, and disable any swap file/virtual memory. Although even this isn't really necessary...
 
Spending that kind of money, you would be better waiting for Haswell in July. You current chip is still great and should perform well

This would be worth it however...

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £249.95
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £179.99
Total : £441.34 (includes shipping : £9.50).



You could always x/fire the 7950?!

Is xfire worth it these days? I got put off adding another 6870 due to reading about micro stuttering and compatibility with games
 
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