Which to upgrade or both.

welshjim22 · 27 Jul 2012 at 20:10

I am currently running an intel core duo e6600 with 8gb ram and nvidia 260. I play at max res 1280x 1024. Games crysis 2, oblivion, railworks. I want to be able to play Crysis 3 and far cry 3 with high settings when thy are released. I also do a fair bit of photo editing on photoshop elements 7.

My question is do I just upgrade graphics card and if so what is a good improvement for £120-150 or do I go for an i5 2500/3570 CPU upgrade?

welshjim22 · 29 Jul 2012 at 13:08

I didn't make that clear, budget is max £400 for CPU, motherboard,ram etc or 120-150 for just gpu.

welshjim22 · 29 Jul 2012 at 13:30

Still the original from when this was a 2006 mesh pc build. It's 500w I believe. Seems to be ine at present. Starting o look at motherboard bundles around 300 for i5 2500/3570 plus radeon 6870. It's not like I have a large monitor.

welshjim22 · 29 Jul 2012 at 14:43

Interesting idea about the G840 had kind of dismissed that as too slow initially I will give that idea a bit more consideration as it frees up the monitor money which again I had dismissed.