Thinking it is about time that I upgraded my machine from the one in my sig to something more current, looking to spend up to £1,500 So far I have come up with this but looking for suggestions on anything which can be improved. I don't have any preference on the red or green team and haven't really followed the GPU market that closely so any suggestions there would be great. It will mostly be used for gaming, but I will have an need to run quite a few virtual machines on it now and then.
Achilles heel of your system is the GPU. Might be worth upgrading that alone and see how your system improves in the gaming department.
I did think about doing that and then waiting for the next Intel chip but then looked at the rumours on the release date and it was the middle of next year. Is there a particular graphics card you would recommend?
I just built a x58 system and put in 24gb ram a 780 and swapped the 920 for a x5650 and its great for gaming Still alot of life in the system Get a 970 and maybe swap for a x5650 £70 from ebay
Thanks for the imput guys, I have read a few reviews on the cards and decided to swap it over to the Asus STRIX GTX970 Any other parts I should have a look swapping out? I have also been thinking about upgrading my monitor to a 27" but need to do some reading up on them. Do any of you have any recommendations? Will be used mostly for gaming/web browsing with small amounts of office work.
The Dell U2713HM is a good choice (2560x1440 res which is a good step up from 1200p but without being too taxing for games to run on, unlike 4k monitors). NRG:IT do good refurbished versions of the above for ~£350 (maybe plus postage) GK
I just got two GTX 970 cards today and they are pretty amazing, ( I got the MSI Gaming ones that had a gold premium from Bit Tech/CPC on here) so I'd definitely consider doing that instead of a total new build just yet. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/09/19/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-review/14 I'd also get an SSD and put a bit more memory in there. With the newer monitor that should see you right for quite some time to come. After the graphics card I'd say personally that the SSD is the next thing to upgrade, even before a monitor, in my list of priorities, as they do make such a huge difference to your day to day. They are so cheap these days (compared to when I first had one) that I run with two of them, one for Windows (128GB) and one for gaming (480GB), with a 2TB clunker for pics/vids everything else.
I have already got an Samsung 256GB 830 SSD in my system was by far the best purchase I have made. (should have updated my sig) I will have to look and see if it is worth upgrading everything or just getting a new graphics card. My system has done quite well for the last 6/7 years. The main reason I was looking was due to not being able to run DirectX 11, and the CPU can struggle from time to time. I did look at upgrading the RAM last year when I was running lots of VM's but it was very expensive for an extra 6GB.
