upgrade

coxyclan · 26 Jun 2013 at 20:36

Hi all this is my first post on here

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I'm looking to upgrade my computer in the next month and have £500 to spend on components. The components I'm currently looking at are:

Zalman Z9-U3 Mid tower case - £48
Saphire Radeon HD7950 - £210
Seagate SSHD 500gb - £60
AMD FX6300 Black Edition CPU - £90
Asus M5A97 Motherboard - £70

I'll be using a few bits from my current system including a TB HDD, 8GB DDR3 ram and Monitor.

I was wondering if this set up looks ok to everyone for fairly high spec gaming and are there any other components that would do the job better for a similar price.

Steve.

coxyclan · 26 Jun 2013 at 21:06

Idleman said:
What about a Psu, do you have one or will that need to be included in the price.

Ive got a decent modular PSU from my current build.

coxyclan · 27 Jun 2013 at 17:20

Idleman said:
If you do a google search for "VTX3D Black Edition Radeon HD 7870 (Tahiti LE) OC", that is on a par with a stock 7950, OCUK seems to have stopped selling them.

I've been recently reading though that the extra gig of memory on the 7950 will be very useful once the PS4 and Xboxone come out.

coxyclan · 27 Jun 2013 at 21:05

Idleman said:
Well if you want to spend the extra £60-80 on the 7950, who am I to stop you. Bear in mind, to do so, you will have to make compromises elsewhere to fit it in your budget. So for the extra GB of Vram you get a lesser Cpu and mobo.
Although, I don`t see what the extra Vram has to do with the PS4 or XBOX1!

An article on Eurogamer was saying that the next generation of consoles would bring about an increase in ram used on pc games.

Nor sure if this is necessarily true and I'm also not sure how much extra power a 7950 will give over a 7850.