upgrade

darego

built my computer 2 months ago with the intention of upgrading around now:

specs atm
8 gigs of ram
as rock z68 pro3 gen3
xfx pro 650w
Intel Celeron G530 (got this just until i upgraded)
R3 case/1gb HD etc

now i want to upgrade CPU and get a GPU. i'm not too into FPS games but i play some sometimes so when i do i'd like decent FPS on my samsung 24" sncmaster

i have 400~500 to spend on both cpu and gpu. was thinkin 2500k and maybe 7850? what gpu is best bang for the buck atm?

cheers

ZeroThreat

Well, you've got a z68 board so a 2500k sounds in order and 7850 is decent midrange card with decent overclocking abilities afaik, so that seems about the right choice.

If your budget is stretching nearer the 500 than 400, perhaps consider getting a SSD on top of that ??

Edit : Crappy typos, guess it's late

Sarz91

darego wrote: »

built my computer 2 months ago with the intention of upgrading around now:

specs atm
8 gigs of ram
as rock z68 pro3 gen3
xfx pro 650w
Intel Celeron G530 (got this just until i upgraded)
R3 case/1gb HD etc

now i want to upgrade CPU and get a GPU. i'm not too into FPS games but i play some sometimes so when i do i'd like decent FPS on my samsung 24" sncmaster

i have 400~500 to spend on both cpu and gpu. was thinkin 2500k and maybe 7850? what gpu is best bang for the buck atm?

cheers

Are you planning on over clocking? 7850 will run any modern game you throw at it pretty nicely.

darego

Sarz91 wrote: »

Are you planning on over clocking? 7850 will run any modern game you throw at it pretty nicely.

yeah i will overclock. have a skythe mugen B heat sink there that i'll stick in once i get the cpu. i'll also try OC the gpu, should i stretch my budget to try fit in a 7870 or is it not worth the money? i'll get an ssa in a few weeks

Procrastastudy

My personal view on it is to by the XX50 cards (either 7850 or 7950) and then over clock. I'd hold off a couple of weeks though there are price drops afoot!

darego

orly? any idea when? :P cheers

Procrastastudy

Monday I think - how long that takes to see on the likes of hardwareV etc I dont know.

ShadowHearth

Yup, hold on a wee bit as ati having a price cut.

2500k
7850
120gb ssd ( Samsung or m4 )

Skylinehead

I don't think the 7850 is affected by the cuts, at least it wasn't mentioned here. I'd still wait and see though.

darego

looks like the price gap between the 7850 and the 7870 will go down. does this make the 7870 much better value than before? cheers lads

darego

bump. didn't go ahead with it then but am about to pull the trigger now unless i should change something because of price/hardware changes over the last 2 months?

Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 OC
http://lb.hardwareversand.de/2048+MB/62363/Sapphire+Radeon+HD+7850+OC%2C+full+retail.article

Intel Core i5-2500K
http://lb.hardwareversand.de/Socket+1155/41224/Intel+Core+i5-2500K+Box%2C+LGA1155.article

Crucial M4 128GB
http://lb.hardwareversand.de/Solid-State-Disk/46110/Crucial+M4+128GB+SSD+6%2C4cm+%282%2C5%29.article



or for an extra 25 quid should i get a 7870 instead of 7850? (will be powering a catleap monitor btw..)
http://lb.hardwareversand.de/2048+MB/57546/Gigabyte+Radeon+HD+7870+GHz+Edition%2C+2GB+GDDR5%2C+PCI-Express.article

cheers

marco_polo

What has changed is the monitor from a Samsung 24" to a catleap .

You'd really want to be considering at least a HD7950 in that case, unfortunately the price difference is almost exactly the same as the cost of the 128Gb crucial SSD .

Tij da feen

You could always bump up to an i5-3570k, that motherboard allows Ivy Bridge processors with a BIOS update. Also if you have the small bit of extra cash bump up that 7850 to this 7870. For the small bit extra it's worth it and I think there was some problem with some Sapphire AMD cards awhile ago, I can't remember which specific cards had problems tho.

darego

cheers lads