upgrading my pc

Aerogar

Aerogar

Aerogar

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hello

im thinking of replacing my 660ti with a 770 or a r290

aswell as replacing my bulldozer fx4100 with a piledriver 8350

I have a ocz 750w psu, 8gb corsair vengeance ddr3 ram, and a gigabyte ga 78lmt s2p

would those two upgrades run fine and be an improvement? appreciate any help
 
That motherboard doesn't support piledriver CPUs unfortunately so you'll have to upgrade motherboard as well.
 
would i need to upgrade my ram with the intel mb or if i just upgrade the amd chipset mb?

upgrading ram would kinda stretch my burget, i'd say £600 max, i just want big improvements in general useage but mainly for gaming , cheers
 
dacads said:
That motherboard doesn't support piledriver CPUs unfortunately so you'll have to upgrade motherboard as well.
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It supports the FX-8300 according to the CPU list (which is piledriver), but they're weirdly hard to find for some reason. There's a couple on ebay for about £100, which is similar to the price of a new 8320 from ocuk.

Aerogar, you should check the revision of your board, it looks like v4 onwards support the FX-6300, which is a cracking low cost CPU in most games.

Also you need to mention what kind of games you like and your screen res.
 
joeyjojo said:
It supports the FX-8300 according to the CPU list (which is piledriver), but they're weirdly hard to find for some reason. There's a couple on ebay for about £100, which is similar to the price of a new 8320 from ocuk.

Aerogar, you should check the revision of your board, it looks like v4 onwards support the FX-6300, which is a cracking low cost CPU in most games.

Also you need to mention what kind of games you like and your screen res.
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Hey, i plan to play the new wow expansion, but i mainly play arma 3 and then just generally any new games that take my fancy, battlefield 4/cod/assassins creed

i do like that intel package, i think my is v2, but i'll double check, i've heard that intel cpu beats pretty much all the amd products especially for gaming?
 
Your current motherboard does not VRM heatsinks and you might find the cpu starts to throttle as these start getting to warm, the 8xxx range does draw some power.

The Intel does a good job of keeping ahead and can be overclocked to 4.2ghz and higher.
 
sorry for bumping, i just realized after checking the manual, im wondering if that motherboard will fit into the antec 300 case which i have
 
sorry for bumping, i'm going to go with what rjc said

i think i want to change my PSU unit too, any suggestions?

the only thing i won't be changing is my ram so.. will my ram bottleneck the new system at all?

My friend has donated his 120gb ssd for some reason, so with the 60gb ssd with the r90 and my 1tb hdd

is it easy to have windows 7 on one of the ssd with games and whatnot on the other and then the hdd just for storage? i'm not quite sure how to do it

ps. would the r9 290 actually fit into the antec 300?
 
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Just checked the GPU its just a fraction to big :(

So having a look the MSI 290 will fit but you will loose out on the free SSD.

PSU and new card below:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 290 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £295.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
Total : £359.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).



You be fine installing the Games on a different drive, during the install process just change the location were you want the to be installed.
 
Hey i've decided i shall get that msi card and with the money spared to not replacing the case

i'm wondering if i could get a performance upgrade via memory, cheers
 
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