UpGrade

WelshSniper · 9 Jul 2012 at 20:45

I am thinking of upgarding my PC in the next few weeks, My budget is about £500(Give or take £50),
I dont know what I should upgrade or what I should upgrade to,
So I thought I would see what you guys think I should do, Here is my spec as of now

Case : Coolermaster Haf X
Mainboard : Gigabyte G41MT-S2PT
Processor : Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 @ 2.67GHZ
RAM : 8192MB (2 x 4096 DDR3 Kingston HyperX)
GFX Card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 2GB (Gainward "GS" Sample)
Hard Disk : SAMSUNG 500GB + Western Digital 2TB
O/S : Windows 7 Pro 64bit

Any help would be great

Thanks

Welsh

WelshSniper · 9 Jul 2012 at 21:02

Thanks for the quick response,

Im not really a big fan of AMD/ATI things, So I would say an Nvidia card if possible, I also have a cooler that I can use.

WelshSniper · 9 Jul 2012 at 21:21

]I done know why I am not a fan, I would be willing to give them a go however if the performance is that much better.
I suppose its every man to his own with what he prefers.

Yeah it dose have mounts, I have http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-040-AR&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

WelshSniper · 9 Jul 2012 at 23:26

Just spit balling here, Would it be a good idea to keep my gtx 460 but buy the rest of the bits excluding the card and the at a later date pick up some thing like the 7970 or the gtx 670/680 ?

Also would I see much difference in performance if I just bought a new card and not the rest of the system ? I know that my board and chip would hold it back, but would it matter a huge amount, and then later in the year buy the a new motherboard and chip ?

WelshSniper · 9 Jul 2012 at 23:59

Ok so I had a look and found that the 3570k is about +£10 more than the 2500k, so I would go for that, as for the board what is this one like http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-388-GI ?

WelshSniper · 10 Jul 2012 at 17:50

OK thanks for all the help, I still dont know if I will be going for SLI at some point.
I will post up what I am thinking of getting soon, Budget might be £650 if I sell my old Board and chip along with some other bits.

WelshSniper · 10 Jul 2012 at 21:40

Ok so here is what I will be getting with in a few weeks

YOUR BASKET

1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £189.95
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost £85.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-DS3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard£74.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C11 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1866C11D3P1K2/8G)£53.99
1 x Ozone Strike Gaming Mechanical Keyboard£79.99
Total : £496.31 (includes shipping : £9.50).

I also need a new keyboard, And thought that the extra 8GB could not hurt.

So any thoughts on that lot ?

WelshSniper · 10 Jul 2012 at 22:55

Lol thanks for pointing that out