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flexbar

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Current build

Product Name Price Qty Line Total

XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Asus Crosshair IV Formula AMD 890FX (Socket AM3/AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail

Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit
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Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX)

Cooler Master CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black

Antec High Current Gamer 620W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply

Kingston Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) X 2

Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/775/1155/1156/1366)

Sony Optiarc AD-5280S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM

then i got an ssd 128gb later on

Got a budget of £450 Looking at getting sandy/ivybridge maybe a new gpu if money allows

or what it be better to keeper the mobo and upgrade to a new amd cpu?

any help would be nice cheers guys
 
upgrade to a i5-3570K and something like the Gigabyte Z77X-D3H mobo.

adding a 7850 gfx card to that would take the total to around £500.

5870 is still a decent card, so unless your struggling with it no harm in keeping it.
 
 
mickyflinn said:
A little over budget but you could sell your older components to keep cost down.


YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7850 Power Edition Twin Frozr IV OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £191.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-DS3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £74.99
1 x Kingston Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £23.99
Total : £470.35 (includes shipping : £9.50).

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Great plan!

Id go for that.
 
You'd be pushing it buddy.

650W to 700W is the recommended. They are power hungry cards.

Why not just sell yours and buy a 7850? :)
 
if its a newish psu it should be ok, does it have it the pci-e power connectors required for 2 x 5870's , if not you'll need adpaters/extensions.
 
flexbar said:
Cheers for the reply guys

I've found a HD 5870 for £140 so thinking now for XF will my psu be able to handle it?
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a HD5870 for £140? Christ...

Sell your old gear (5870, motherboard, CPU and RAM). It's not a bad base for a budget gaming system. Then get a 7850.

This is seriously worth it :

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7850 Power Edition Twin Frozr IV OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £191.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £43.19
Total : £494.56 (includes shipping : £9.50).



If you can't afford in one go, get the CPU, motherboard and RAM first, then save for a 7850 / 670.
 
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Thanks for all the replies guys, ive spoken to a friend and he's going to take the cpu, ram mobo and gpu off me.

which now takes my budget up to 750 so i have a bit more to play with would you guys add anything new?

Sorry to keep going on
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 670 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (N670GTX-PM2D2GD5/OC) £299.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard with FREE BOOGIE BUG XXL GAMING MOUSE MAT £129.98
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £43.19
Total : £652.55 (includes shipping : £9.50).




Motherboard to support SLI.

If wanting to go SLI will need to upgrade PSU too..

If you don't want to go SLI, go with the board Oliver Suggested.
 
 
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