Won an incentive at work and they have just posted to me £300 in amazon gift vouchers So I am looking to blow it all on my rig. I am currently running i7-930 Gigabyte X58A-UD3R Motherboard 12GB Vengeance RAM ATi 6870 M4 SSD What do you think would be a worthy upgrade?
Eh, this is difficult. You've got a great rig there, and there's not much you can upgrade. A new CPU/Mobo seems silly to buy as Ivy Bridge is just around the corner, you have plenty of RAM, a great GPU and an SSD. The only reasonable advice I could give is either a better monitor (not sure what you have now) or a bigger SSD/another M4 for RAID 0.
If you have a 750W+ PSU and you game lots I would recommend a second HD 6870 for Crossfire. Or better yet, sell your current HD 6870 on Ebay and buy one of Nvidia's new GTX 6XX cards or an ATI HD7950.
I have a Dell 23" monitor so don't really need to upgrade. Was looking at the 7970 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-21...Converter/dp/B006TX48XC/ref=pd_cp_computers_0 Good deal?
Hay thats naughty its over £300 But yeah that seems like a good deal, but it is a reference cooler and they can get pretty hot. I think this would be a better idea: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/..._rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=228922307&pf_rd_i=428655031 It will be a lot cooler, and you can overclock it to 7970 levels
Or if you can wait a few weeks (even though I have no idea of a release date) and you have no alliegence to AMD cards, you could see what the GTX 670 brings to the table?
That sapphire 7950 oc is a really good card. Was looking at getting one till I decided to save the money for a completely new rig.
May sound ridiculous but if I were you (with that rig) I would wait until you need to upgrade, assuming those vouchers don't expire any time soon.
Listen to this fellow! Whether or not you like nVidia, you can only hope the release will drop AMD's prices. At least that's what I'm hoping
Had my eye on a Dell 27" U2711H for a while. Could sell my dell u2312 then to make up some of the cost
