cheap upgrade

ibstar

Hi.

Looking to do a cheap upgrade of my PC.
Mainly to play the new Metal Gear that's coming out for PC which will probably have same spec requirements as this: http://store.steampowered.com/app/311340/

I have GTX 560 (which I will be looking to upgrade from)
I have 560W power supply and 1TB HDD.
After some searching I thought motherboard,processor and RAM should be sufficient enough for an upgrade.
I am thinking of SSD but it's out of my budget at the moment.
Trying to keep it in 300e range.

What do you guys think of this combo:

SRock 990FX Extreme3 AM3+ AMD 990FX DDR3 ATX

AMD FX8-8320 Black Edition Vishera 8 Core AM3+ 3.5GHz 16MB 125W

Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600MHz CL9 1.5v 240pin


I am a total noob when it comes to picking RAM, and always just went for known brands. Also I have never went for AMD processors and always stuck to intel, currently running C2Q Q6600.

I want to have 4 dimm slots in my mobo, so I can slab more ram on it as times go by.

Any advice is welcome.

harrymagina

Any plans any over clocking?

Could go for an i5 4460 , h81 motherboard and 8gb stick of ram instead of the 2*4. Would come in under 300. Easily upgradeable to 16gb of ram.

TerrorFirmer

No point going AMD to be honest, far better off with an i5 for a new build.

If your budget is 300, I would suggest maybe look at selling the entire machine as it is - double your budget to 600. The GTX560 is fairly bottom rung at this stage for new releases. 600 would net you something like an i5-4460, 8Gb Ram, R9 280 graphics card based system.

Buying from Hardwareversand.de or Amazon, the following spec will cost about 600.

i5-4460
H81 Motherboard
R9 280
Corsair Spec 01 Case
Corsair 430W PSU
1TB Hard Drive
8GB Ram

You can get windows from Reddit or similar for €15 if required. I just had a quick look - obviously you can get a cheaper case, get an i3 instead of an i5 and fit in an SSD, or drop the graphics card down to a 750Ti if you want to keep the i5, so on, and so forth...

ibstar

some good advice here.

Reason I looked into AMD was because that mobo for that price is better than what I could find for i5 in that range.
But in general i5+H81 mobo would do better than AMD 8320+ASRock 990FX?

ibstar

scrap my post

Just did some more research and i5 kills that and the processor above it in gaming.
That processor does better when doing video editing,Photoshop etc.
Heaviest program I use is dremweaver and eclipse which are not processor hungry.

ibstar

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

No point going AMD to be honest, far better off with an i5 for a new build.

If your budget is 300, I would suggest maybe look at selling the entire machine as it is - double your budget to 600. The GTX560 is fairly bottom rung at this stage for new releases. 600 would net you something like an i5-4460, 8Gb Ram, R9 280 graphics card based system.

Buying from Hardwareversand.de or Amazon, the following spec will cost about 600.

i5-4460
H81 Motherboard
R9 280
Corsair Spec 01 Case
Corsair 430W PSU
1TB Hard Drive
8GB Ram

You can get windows from Reddit or similar for €15 if required. I just had a quick look - obviously you can get a cheaper case, get an i3 instead of an i5 and fit in an SSD, or drop the graphics card down to a 750Ti if you want to keep the i5, so on, and so forth...

just a question on power supply.
Is 430W going to cut it? Or better to stay on the safe side and go up to 600.

harrymagina

ibstar wrote: »

just a question on power supply.
Is 430W going to cut it? Or better to stay on the safe side and go up to 600.

I'd up it to a vs series 550w. There pretty cheap but 430 would still be okay.