Hi all,
Thinking about upgrading my ancient mobo and graphics card which has recently packed in. I'll be doing quite a lot of gaming at 1920 x 1080p so the right graphics card is a must. My budget is £300 which I don't want to go over if possible but if there's a significant performance increase in some parts that go over that then i'm willing to budge.
My current set up is this:
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 945 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Memory: 6144MB RAM
Hard Drive: 660 GB Total
Video Card: NVIDIA BFG GTX 295
Monitor: Dell ST2210
Sound Card: Realtek HD Audio
Speakers/Headphones: Trust
Keyboard: Microsoft Comfort Curve
Mouse: Trust GXT 14
Mouse Surface: Custom Made Mouse Mat
Operating System: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (5.2, Build 3790) Service Pack 2 (3790.srv03_sp2_rtm.070216-1710)
Motherboard: GigaByte GA-MA790GPT-UD3H
Computer Case:
I'm looking for an SLi/X-Fire enabled mobo and a graphics card equal to or greater to the BFG 295 performance wise.
Currently i've been looking at these:
Mobo:
Asus M4A87TD Evo AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard [90-MIBCK0-G0EAY0WZ]
Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard [GA-870A-UD3]
I've no idea on the difference between a 700/800 chipset mobo, guessing the 800 is newer/better?
As for the graphics cards:
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card [HD-489X-ZHFL]
OcUK Value GeForce GTX 260 "Core 216 55nm" 896MB GDDR3 Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - (Grade A OEM - 3 Months Warranty)
Worryingly, it only has a 3 month guarantee so a bit unsure
Again, any card/cards that will outperform the 295.
I also currently have DDR2 RAM, is it compatible with any of the mobos above? If not, i'll have to upgrade that too.
Thanks
Thinking about upgrading my ancient mobo and graphics card which has recently packed in. I'll be doing quite a lot of gaming at 1920 x 1080p so the right graphics card is a must. My budget is £300 which I don't want to go over if possible but if there's a significant performance increase in some parts that go over that then i'm willing to budge.
My current set up is this:
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 945 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Memory: 6144MB RAM
Hard Drive: 660 GB Total
Video Card: NVIDIA BFG GTX 295
Monitor: Dell ST2210
Sound Card: Realtek HD Audio
Speakers/Headphones: Trust
Keyboard: Microsoft Comfort Curve
Mouse: Trust GXT 14
Mouse Surface: Custom Made Mouse Mat
Operating System: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (5.2, Build 3790) Service Pack 2 (3790.srv03_sp2_rtm.070216-1710)
Motherboard: GigaByte GA-MA790GPT-UD3H
Computer Case:
I'm looking for an SLi/X-Fire enabled mobo and a graphics card equal to or greater to the BFG 295 performance wise.
Currently i've been looking at these:
Mobo:
Asus M4A87TD Evo AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard [90-MIBCK0-G0EAY0WZ]
Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard [GA-870A-UD3]
I've no idea on the difference between a 700/800 chipset mobo, guessing the 800 is newer/better?
As for the graphics cards:
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card [HD-489X-ZHFL]
OcUK Value GeForce GTX 260 "Core 216 55nm" 896MB GDDR3 Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - (Grade A OEM - 3 Months Warranty)
Worryingly, it only has a 3 month guarantee so a bit unsure
Again, any card/cards that will outperform the 295.
I also currently have DDR2 RAM, is it compatible with any of the mobos above? If not, i'll have to upgrade that too.
Thanks
