What to upgrade next?

decel3000 · 21 Feb 2013 at 16:15

Hey guys. I know you probably get a lot of these. But i do need some assistance, as I wish to start upgrading my pc again soon. But im unsure where to start.

Graphics Card- 1280mb GTX 570 GDDR5

Processor- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.8GHz

Motherboard- ASROCK H55M-LE

Any help/Suggestions would be awesome!

Doomedspeed · 21 Feb 2013 at 16:21

What sort of budget do you have?

Where is you pc struggling?

That i7 is still a great chip. You tried over locking it? You got an aftermarket cooler?

The 570's are still great cards but lacking in the vram department.

Can try and help you depending on how much you have to spend.

TwsT · 21 Feb 2013 at 16:25

570 is fine don't change that

I would say buy an SSD first and wait for haswell to launch in in Q2

decel3000 · 21 Feb 2013 at 16:26

Got quite high budget really

For processor £100-£250
GFX Card- £250-£450
Motherboard- Any price.

Im not very good when it comes down to the technical side of overclocking. Thinking to upgrade to a processor with a speed of 3.2+

linwelin · 21 Feb 2013 at 16:28

how much ram do you have ? an SSD is always a great upgrade, and how about a 7970 if you have the cash to spend.

decel3000 · 21 Feb 2013 at 16:31

I have 6gb of ram

linwelin · 21 Feb 2013 at 16:33

Is this system just for gaming ?

decel3000 · 21 Feb 2013 at 16:41

Yes.

linwelin · 21 Feb 2013 at 16:46

I am assuming you will be reusing some old parts, Case, HDD, PSU etc etc

What PSU do you have ?

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7970 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H797F3G2M) with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £339.95
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £189.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £129.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B) £49.99
Total : £721.87 (includes shipping : £10.00).

decel3000 · 21 Feb 2013 at 16:56

Awesome thanks. What NVidia card would be best? I tend to prefer them.

And the psu i have is the- Antec High Current Gamer 620W '80 Plus Bronze'

linwelin · 21 Feb 2013 at 17:10

decel3000 said:
Awesome thanks. What NVidia card would be best? I tend to prefer them.

And the psu i have is the- Antec High Current Gamer 620W '80 Plus Bronze'

AMD has the better performance at the moment, you cant get better than a 7970

decel3000 · 21 Feb 2013 at 17:43

Ok. Thanks for the help man

. Will definitly be purchasing a couple of those bits you suggested. Plus its my birthday in a months time so would be a perfect chance to get something

Thanks again

linwelin · 21 Feb 2013 at 18:55

you're welcome

decel3000 · 12 Mar 2013 at 15:18

If to start i was to purchase the new processor. Could my current motherboard support it?
Cheers

biuro74 · 12 Mar 2013 at 15:42

LOL, completely no need to buy whole bunch of gadgets in your case

Just change motherboard and that's it. Now you've got H-series which is un-overclockable, and you've got still decent CPU which needs just OC (plus good cooling & pasta). Change it to P55 - it might be a bit tricky as it's hard to get one (on Ebay there's Gigabyte + CPU + RAM for 75 quids so far = you can sell rest of it), and rest of your free money spend to SSD + SATA3 controller eventually.

P.S.
Your old mobo (1156 socket) doesn't support new CPUs (1155 socket).