Hi guys i currently have i7 2600k Asus P8Z68-V LX 12GB Corasir Vengance 1600Mhz EVGA GTX 460 1GB Superclocked 64GB Crucial M4 1TB Western Digital HD 750 W Corsair PSU Lian Lee Dragonlord Case Whats the best £200 i can spend to make things better /faster? Graphics, GTX 570 maybe? Currently the best stable OC I can get is 4.65GHz, would a better mobo up this any? Any thoughts welcome! Thanks Tim
Your weakness regarding gaming is definitely your graphics card. If you game a lot on this system a 560 Ti or 570/6970 if you can afford it. What do you use it for and what games do you play?
Depends what u want the pc for. Gaming? Get a new GPU but where have u seen a 570 for 200? I've seen decent one for 239. 4.65 is a good oc. Can't see the need for new mobo for your existing processor. Then again u could get a second 460 and run SLI.
An up to date graphics card seems to be the only thing you lack. I don't know where you have been looking but the cheapest 570 on scan is £240. As far as I know £200 is more 560Ti range. Depending on what resolution you play at you may want to stretch to £215 so you can get a 2GB 560Ti If not then go with the £200 1GB twin frozr
For £200 you can get one of the newer GTX 560ti with 448 cores. They're faster than a normal 560ti and some models trump a 570. Plus 560ti's are very overclockable easily beating a 570 in most scenarios.
Wow, I did a quick google search while my bosses back was turned, Jeez you guys need to calm down one mention of a 570 at £200 n your all down my throat. but yeah ok I'd have to throw in an extra few quid for a 570. Use the machine for a bit of gaming, and all usual pc usage. I don't have BF3, but it's apparently meant to be ok so I was thinking the GFX would let me down, res is 1960 x 1080 Tim
We weren't jumping down your throat. We are trying to help BF3 is rather GPU intensive and a better one would help you to run at that resolution with higher graphics settings. Other than that you have a pretty solid system and every other upgrade would be out of your budget by a fairly large amount.
How dare you say 570 for £200!! BF3 is very demanding. I can run it high at 60fps or with some ultra settings on my 560Ti SLI. I cant run full ultra but you don't need ultra really. High settings look incredible but u will need either a second 460 (same model and clock speeds) or a 570. There is a 2gb version of the 560Ti which should give u some extra draw distance on demanding games. My 560Ti's have only 1gb GDDR which isn't that much these days. I would say go either the 2gb version of the 560ti or get a 570.
I have bf3 on a combo of ultra and high with an average of 53~55 fps on most maps with my 2gb 560TI Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk
