Upgrading PC - £500-£700

Enaver

Enaver

Enaver

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Evening,

Currently looking to upgrade my current gaming PC. Here is what I have at the moment:

MSI GeForce GTX 580 Twin FrozR II 1536MB GDDR5

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.80GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155

MSI P67A-GD65 Intel P67 (socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3

Cooler Master CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case

My power supply is 950w, can't remember what one it was so I will have to update you on that.

Basically I am looking to upgrade my graphics card and CPU, possibly some extra RAM too for the odd editing that I do (Not sure whether I should just get some new DDR5 RAM), but 100% with the RAM atm.

Im not up to date with current new components, but I know Intel have brought out Haswell and looks quite good. Im willing to go abit over my budget.

Cheers in advance!
 
The 2500k is still a very capable cpu and haswell may only give you about 10-20% performance upgrade.

If you dont do much editing then there is no real point going for an I-7 and ddr5 there is no memory on the market yet or motherboard to support it.

If your set on an upgrade tell us which components.
 
Jumper118 said:
You would get a large boost in performance if you game or use programmers that can use cuda if you got a gtx780. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/767?vs=827
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-200-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341
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I really don't think that's a good use of his money. His 580 is still a very capable card. Id stick with that and save the money.

mickyflinn said:
Oh yes , forgot about DDR4 :eek:
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Haswell-E appearently. :)
 
Yea you could go to a 780, but the price/performance ratio is just not as great as getting a 770.

Even then though, would it justify the money spent.........? its all down to your current requirement for game settings....
 
Cheers for the replies. Sorry for being very brief was at work when I posted this.

I do a lot of short films for you and something which would make my rendering faster would be a massive bonus as it would save me some time. As you have said my I5 2500k is great for gaming atm. Just wondering if the Haswell would make a notable difference with editing.

I play pretty much most games and I am one of the gamers which likes decent smooth flowing graphics to make me feel more in the game, love visuals. If I was to get the 770 or 780 it wouldn't be for another month or two any way, just wondering what the performance bonus of the 780 over the 770 as the money difference is quite a lot more.

I must have misread something about DDR5 RAM it seems then :) Might just get another set of 8GB DDR3.

Cheers again!

Edit - Might just be me, but I feel sometimes that my 580 slacks a little.
 
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Enaver said:
Cheers for the replies. Sorry for being very brief was at work when I posted this.

I do a lot of short films for you and something which would make my rendering faster would be a massive bonus as it would save me some time. As you have said my I5 2500k is great for gaming atm. Just wondering if the Haswell would make a notable difference with editing.

I play pretty much most games and I am one of the gamers which likes decent smooth flowing graphics to make me feel more in the game, love visuals. If I was to get the 770 or 780 it wouldn't be for another month or two any way, just wondering what the performance bonus of the 780 over the 770 as the money difference is quite a lot more.

I must have misread something about DDR5 RAM it seems then :) Might just get another set of 8GB DDR3.

Cheers again!

Edit - Might just be me, but I feel sometimes that my 580 slacks a little.
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for video rendering more threads tends to make the rendering time shorter, so you might want to look at a haswell i7 4770k and a new motherboard instead of a i5. If you wanted to keep your current motherboard then i think the i7 2600k is the best option, as i don't think your board supports ivybridge cpu's.
 
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