Worth Upgrading or not

Zzenith · 27 Sep 2010 at 18:57

My current PS is the following

An intel dual E6700 at 3GHZ
ASUS P5N32-E
Corsair DDR2 PC2-6400 2GB Memory
Nvidia 8800 GTX

Running on Windows XP, pc is almost 4 years old

I mainly use for games

I have £1400 to spend if needed

but would a gfx card upgrade do or is it worth going the whole hog if so please spec me a machine

thanks

95thrifles · 27 Sep 2010 at 20:01

Its prob worth doing whole machine tbh, but no need to spend that much

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EVGA GeForce GTX 470 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards with MAFIA 2 £246.74
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Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £146.86
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Asus P7P55D-E Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £104.99
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Corsair HX 650W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-650HXUK) £99.99
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Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £76.36
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Coolermaster Storm Scout Gaming Case - Black £66.99
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Titan Fenrir Evo CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366/AMD K8/AM2/AM2+/AM3) £35.99
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Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £32.99
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LiteOn IHAS524-32 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter with LabelTag - (Black) Retail £20.99
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If you want the option of going SLI later upgrade mobo to something like this one

Zzenith · 27 Sep 2010 at 20:57

Thanks for the build, but I was wondering when I bought my current PC it was a price around what Iam willing to spend now and I got 4 years out of it, So id really prefer to get a new machine that will last 3 to 4 years hopefully.

So I guess what I'm asking is will the build quoted above be reasonable future proof or is it worth spending the extra for a faster machine ?

I was thinking initially of the overclocked I7 930 bundle with an ATI 5870 or is that just overkill atm

Admiral Huddy · 28 Sep 2010 at 08:33

Overkill, not really. The combination is a great upgrade.

The new AMD 6* range are out soon so maybe worth holding off for that. However, if you just upgraded the graphics card you may run into bottlenecking but it will still out perform the GTX you have, as i found out when i upgraded mine recently.