Want To Upgrade P.C. Help Required Please.

Grandpa Munster · 3 Jul 2011 at 19:27

I'm getting a bit of an itch to upgrade my P.C. This is mainly due to wanting a 27" monitor and wanting 2 graphics cards, possibly 2 X MSI GeForce GTX 570 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards for example.

Current P.C. is used for gaming and web browsing, spec as follows,

Asus M4A79T Deluxe mobo.
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition 3.40GHz socket AM3 cpu.
Corsair H50 cpu cooler.
Corsair Obsidian 800D case.
2 X 2GHz Kingston 1600MHz dual channel ram.
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX vid card.
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatality 7.1 sound card.
750w Thermaltake psu.
Samsung SyncMaster 226BW monitor.
Windows 7 professional 64bit.

Obviously case, sound card, operating system and possibly cpu cooler will not need upgrading.

I know I want more ram, SLI graphics and more power.

Budget wise, if I like it, I buy it.

Any help greatly appreciated.

stulid · 3 Jul 2011 at 19:34

Your current motherboard supports Crossfire only, so the easiest thing to do is a pair of 2GB 6950 cards and a killer screen.

You dont need more than 4GB of RAM for a gaming PC, increase your CPU multiplier by a few notches and get it overclocked.

Grandpa Munster · 3 Jul 2011 at 19:47

Thanks for your reply Stulid.

I think I'm getting bogged down with wanting Nvidia graphics. I shall now look at ATI.

With regards the monitor, the more I read about 27" monitors, the more I want to wait to get the quality and low ms I would like.

As far as overclocking goes, I just run everything as standard, If I want more, I buy bigger.

stulid · 3 Jul 2011 at 19:50

Hmmm 27" must mean a Dell IPS - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18291206

Grandpa Munster · 3 Jul 2011 at 20:07

Yep, been looking at the Dell, what puts me off is 6ms response time, also been looking at the Samsung S27A950D.

I'm leaning towards the Dell but the response puts me off.

stulid · 3 Jul 2011 at 20:17

Never seen its response time been an issue from people who use it for gaming and in reviews,

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/monitors/display/dell-eips-roundup_8.html#sect0
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/monitors/2010/03/16/dell-u2711-review/1

Randomface74 · 3 Jul 2011 at 20:18

I'd say get a single 570 and a 23 inch Dell, keep your 22 as a second screen.

Going to a 27 inch Dell will mean you need the SLI, and will have to replace the PSU. Twice the cost at least, maybe 3 times.

Everything else in your rig is fine for now, you can get RAM later if you want - I don't think you need it, but RAM is cheap so maybe see what effect the GPU upgrade has and decide on RAM later.