Upgrading help needed

IIFastraXII · 27 Sep 2012 at 08:27

Thinking about upgrading some components in my pc

It plays MW3 fine and also BF3 on High but my FPS does drop sometimes to about 35 - 45 but i'm after upgrading my GPU and maybe CPU some other components if needed. I dunno what yet maybe you guys can help me with that choice, the card im running at the moment is a NVidia GeForce GTX 460 (768MB. I understand this was a fairly good card a couple of years ago when i got it, but i'm wanting something that plays BF3 a tad better than what i have, i have a limit of about £300.00-£400.00 GBP for components basically the best bang for my buck!.

If theres anything else you guys think i could do with upgrading without spending a bomb please mention it. But please keep in mind i'm a tad rusty when it comes to PC hardware these days. Here is my current setup

Amd Phenom II X4 905e Processor (4CPUs) - 2.5GHz
8GB RAM
Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit)
NVidia GeForce 460 gtx (768MB)
Asus M4N68T PRO Xtreme Design Motherboard
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 RX-500

Thanks For Reading

Bri

IIFastraXII · 27 Sep 2012 at 17:51

IIFastraXII · 27 Sep 2012 at 18:45

see if i switch to intel tho wont i have to reinstall windows? and do you reckon my mobo needs upgraded to? and this is what i had in mind what do you think

CPU:http://www.******.com/186428-amd-ph...dition-3-4ghz-socket-am3-6mb-l3-hdz965fbgmbox

GPU:http://www.******.com/368329-msi-gt...yport-pci-e-graphics-card-n670gtx-pm2d2gd5-oc

IIFastraXII · 27 Sep 2012 at 19:26

OOPS my bad only signed upto hear yesterday lol well what i had in mind were

CPU:AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GHz
GPU:MSI GTX 670 OC Edition 2GB GDDR5

IIFastraXII · 27 Sep 2012 at 21:09

ah right i have a mate that has the same CPU and he highly reccommends it over my current one :S

IIFastraXII · 28 Sep 2012 at 08:58

Any more advice pls? Lol

IIFastraXII · 28 Sep 2012 at 17:00

Uh so then I'd need a new mobo and new install of windows

IIFastraXII · 28 Sep 2012 at 17:32

Well I dunno if it's tied i have a installation cd and all that jazz how do I find out what version of windows I have

IIFastraXII · 29 Sep 2012 at 12:14

i have a oem copy of windows so ill need to buy a new one which kinda sucks! but i could always do what Dunn says