Upgrading my HP PC

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Hi I have been reading through a few posts and seeing all the good advice and help being given and hope someone will be able to help me.

I have never built my own system and have been toying with the idea for ages but always end up going to as you put it the dreaded purple shirt place and buying somethings thats ok but thats all it will ever be.

I currently have a HP a6455.uk
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...1&lc=en&dlc=ru&cc=ru&lang=ru&product=3719367# (this is the spec)

For roughly the last 6-9 months I have just noticed that it does not perform well with games which is my main use for my system. Since recently getting aion I have very low FPS and have to turn the settings down to lowish to be able to play it stable otherwise it just jumps and freezes and is nearly unplayable with I am getting roughly 10fps.

I want to build a system thats is going to be good for gaming and have no idea what to get but I am really keen to learn to build it myself and have the option to upgrade it as and when in the future. If however I can salvage parts from my current system to save money id be happy to do so if it doesnt affect performance I could get from something new. I was thinking of buying a new case and transfering the parts over and upgrading piece by piece every months but unsure how effective this would be?

Any help would be appreciated
 
Sorry forgot to add that I would be getting a new monitor also but have not settled on one yet have been told to look at iyama (thinks thats how its spelt) again any sugestion on this would be usefull
 
I really am not sure what I would need to spend so I will limit my self to £1000 but obviously if I dont need to spend that much then I wont
 
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How does this look, oh forgot to say welcome to the forums :)

GX-215-SP_60.jpg
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £218.98
(£186.37) £218.98
(£186.37)
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AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £121.89
(£103.74) £121.89
(£103.74)
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Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4 (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £107.99
(£91.91) £107.99
(£91.91)
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Patriot Sector 5 Viper II 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-12800 1600MHz Dual Channel + 3D Mark Vantage (PVV34G1600LLKB) £82.76
(£70.43) £82.76
(£70.43)
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Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXUK) £73.99
(£62.97) £73.99
(£62.97)
CA-101-AN_60.jpg
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £42.99
(£36.59) £42.99
(£36.59)
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Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £40.98
(£34.88) £40.98
(£34.88)
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Sony Optiarc AD-7241S 24x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe Optical Drive (Black) - OEM £18.99
(£16.16) £18.99
(£16.16) Sub Total : £603.05 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75 VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £107.59 Total : £722.39
 
Looks good nice to see someone recomend an AMD I have been told by a few mates to get i7 or i5.

If I was to do the upgrade bit by bit and rip my HP into the new case would that work ok and what upgrade would I need to start with?
 
As your motherboard is built by Asus for HP I am not sure which cpu's this will support.

You could move most of the parts over bar the case, psu and gpu then upgrade the motherboard and cpu at a later date.

I am not sure how cpu will fair with the gpu.
 
Ok sounds good would that psu allow me much flexibility in the future if I wanted to run dual graphics cards?
Also would the processor or graphics card benefit from a bit of overclocking I hav no previous knowledge of this
 
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The psu will be fine for dual gpu's but you may need to use molex to pci-e adapters as the psu only comes with 2 PCI-E cables.

Overclocking the cpu and gpu is a must, have a read of the sticky in the overclocking & cooling section.
 
This is what I would get:

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 ~ £122

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-244-AM

Asus M4A79XTD Evo ~ £86

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-366-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

This can do symmetrical Crossfire at PCI-E 2.0 8X. Asymmetrical Crossfire leads to a performance hit.

4GB 1600MHZ DDR3 ~ £85

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-087-GL&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

Antec Signature 650W ~ £86

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-104-AN

Antec 300 case ~ £43

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-101-AN

Samsung F3 1TB ~ £70

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA

SATA optical drive ~ £19

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-039-OT&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=951

Titan TTC-NK85TZ Fenrir CPU Cooler ~ £33

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-008-TI

2XHD5770 1GB ~ £234

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-014-C3

Windows 7 64 bit Retail ~ £100

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SW-124-MS

This is the retail version of Windows 7 which can be re-installed unlike the OEM one.

BenQ G2420HDBL 24" Widescreen LED Monitor ~£150

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-033-BQ&groupid=17&catid=510&subcat=

The total comes to around £1028 excluding delivery.
 
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I notice you have selected 2x 5770 How much better will this be than 1x 5850 and also on looking at the graphics cards there are so many 5770's for instance all at different prices but all the specs seem to be the same is there any differnec between the cheapest and the higher priced versions of the same card?
 
Very interseting I know it woud be a lot more but id probably be more inclined to buy a 5870 and them buy another after a few months later and run them together. I take it that should keep me going hopefully for a while without the need to upgrade the graphics card as my plan would be to keep the system up to date so that I can always achieve a good fps etc in the latest games
 
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