What to upgrade?

Jonnibravo · 7 Sep 2014 at 12:52

Every few months I add or change a part of my system upgrading as best I can, I have a good budget so I might consider spending as much as £400.

Here's what I have;
Phantom 410 case (new)
Gigabyte Z77-D3H MB
i5 3570K cpu
Samsung Evo 840 250gb SSD
2tb Seagate 7200rpm HDD
8gb corsair vengeance ram (2100Mhz)
Asus Phoebus sound card
Zotac 660ti GPU
coolermaster 650psu
Windows 8.1

What would you change/upgrade?

mickyflinn · 7 Sep 2014 at 12:56

Comes with free 8gb of ram

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290X PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE 8GB 2400MHz Memory Kit £371.99
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE 8GB 2400MHz Memory Kit £293.99

William-Mathew · 7 Sep 2014 at 12:58

One of these as they are really good prices:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11226-10-40G) £389.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Vapor-X OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11227-04-40G) £299.99
Total : £699.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Jonnibravo · 8 Sep 2014 at 08:51

Am I going to see a difference from the 660ti

Admiral Huddy · 8 Sep 2014 at 09:08

Yes.

what do you have your 3570K clocked at?

Jonnibravo · 8 Sep 2014 at 10:13

I don't mess with those settings just standard no overclocking, I don't doubt I could do it but I probably go through at least one pc before I got the hang of it lol

Skilty · 8 Sep 2014 at 10:25

What resolution do you game at, any particular titles?

Jonnibravo · 8 Sep 2014 at 10:32

Resolution 1920x1080 BF4, Fifa 2014, xplane 10, train simulator, sim city, titanfall, Grid 2 all high settings the pc handles these titles extremely well all at the highest settings. Although it struggles a bit when I put on the 3d tridef.

P4Clock · 8 Sep 2014 at 10:42

R9 290 what that chip and board and you will fly.
if you don't mind formatting a send SSD in raid would double your boot drive storage you games and apps, and add extra speed
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-341-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

Would the 660ti support gaming at 1440 there is some nice monitors in your range

Skilty · 8 Sep 2014 at 10:46

Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE 8GB 2400MHz Memory Kit

Jonnibravo · 8 Sep 2014 at 12:34

Thank you all for your advice I will be ordering a 290x this afternoon, does it really make a difference which 290 I get, for instance whats the difference between this card:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-239-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

and the one everyone has mentioned
Also do I have enough in my psu to run this card?

Skilty · 8 Sep 2014 at 14:00

Sapphire is clocked higher but the MSI has a 3 year warranty as opposed to 2 years for the Sapphire.

Admiral Huddy · 8 Sep 2014 at 14:14

Jonnibravo said:
I don't mess with those settings just standard no overclocking, I don't doubt I could do it but I probably go through at least one pc before I got the hang of it lol

Why did you buy a "K" chip then? You can get that chip to 4.2GHz pretty much just by changing a few settings providing you adequate cooling and it'll be cheaper than any purchase or upgrade you make.

I upgraded from a 670 which started to show few stutters to an R9 290 with worthwhile benefits. They get a bit warm though but given the price I paid, it seemed a no brainier upgrade. Personally, I wouldn't bother with the X version. There's nothing in it yet require more juice more a lot more cash.