upgrading my system

longjohn

longjohn

longjohn

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im looking to upgrade my system i currently have the following

AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition
Asus M5A99X EVO 990X
corsair vengance 1600mhz 2x 4gb
corsair ax850
corsair h80
msi N550GTX-Ti-M2D1GD5/OC x2
corsair 600t

now im not sure of the best way to go upgrade my motherboard and chip
ie i5 ivybridge
or graphics ie 670 or 680

this is for gaming only
 
honosuseri said:
Stulid is right the 550ti is pretty pants.

I assume the X2 means you are running them in SLI. Unfortunately the VRAM doesn't combine so you still only get 1GB of VRAM. This is a limiting factor, which will prevent you maxing out the graphics settings on games (yes even at lower resolutions 1680x1050 lets say).

I would look at getting a 2GB GPU. The 7850 lets say (you seem to prefer nvidia though), to replace your mobo and CPU you would need to spend over £100 for a SLI mobo to reuse your 550ti's never mind the expense of the CPU.

As you have a black edition CPU overclocking it is very easy providing you have an aftermarket heatsink to keep temps in check.
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and yes it is sli if i could get it to work lol
so im open to suggestions so should i go for 1x say a 670 or 680 and i only play at 1920 x1080 and games like me3, max payne 3 and all top games really
 
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sorry getting a bit confused

keep system and just get a new graphics card so wot would be the best for my system without overkill
 
im just playing with the idea off upgrading my system to an i5 3570k now the question are

will i see much difference in game play compared to my 1100t?

and also if i do upgrade would i be better off with a 680?
 
Idleman said:
I assume you have connected the sli bridge and enabled sli in the Nvidia control panel.
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yes mate when i try and enable the sli the drivers cash and it comes up with an error message

and thanks to honosuseri for your insite it gives me things to consider and my old system i would give to my son so no claim back there

i just want the best system i can get that will last me a few more years, i got some bad info last year when i built this rig and want to make sure i get it right this time
 
and i dont want to be throwing more money at if its not going to improve the game play so im thinking about starting from scratch
 
my son has an old machine wont play much on it and plus i have a i7 920 chip ,motherboard and ram that i was going to give my other son

coming on to overclocking im a noob at it, was trying to read up on how to overclock my cpu i know you can use asus ai but i read best not to, but i know were in the wrong part of the forum but would know were to start as in overclocking a gpu
 
honosuseri said:
You have a good mobo which has USB3 and sata3 and will certainly have plenty of options to tune your overclocks. If you have £300 going spare, I would consider a 7850 and a 120GB sataIII SSD
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i have more than that spare so could i go better the the 7850 and wot ssd to u recommend



[/QUOTE]You have a pretty good heatsink (is the radiator between two fans? push/pull?) so you can certainly run higher than stock speeds safely.[/QUOTE]

yes i have but i only have stock fans, but am looking to get better ones but not sure wot to get yet, i have a cougar vortex that i was going to use elsewhere and i was told they where good is that true and if i get another will that do


[/QUOTE]There is some software that you will need (prime95, intel burntest, Hardware monitor etc) so you can test and make sure the overclock is stable and not "cooking" the CPU.[/QUOTE]

do i need all those programs

and thanks again
 
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