I'm planning on upgrade for my PC. It currently has: i5 750 at stock Gigabyte -GA-P55M-UD2 4GB G.SKill Ripjaw 1333MHz 9-9-9-24 Sapphire HD5770 1GB A 650W PSU DVD RW drive 500GB SATA HDD (old...very old) So here's what I was planning to do with it: Get a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4 and a second 5770 for CrossFire. Also get a new PSU as the one I have at the moment doesn't have 2 6 pins for the graphics cards. How does that sound? Suggestions are very welcome Especially for a PSU
what PSU is it make/model ? also id replace the HDD if its very old as you will get a nice little boost from switching to a 500-1000GB samsung F3. expesive upgrade to get crossfire and would prehaps be cheaper to sell the 5770 and grab s single more powerful card thus no mobo switch required.
Yep, this drive is now £40 everywhere you look (the 1TB model) and I've ordered one, your system seems fast enough with a mix of new and recent parts so more capacity is a good idea. If you have enough posts get free delivery from CCL as well (see vendor forum). Power supply, I went with the Antec Earthwatts 650, same wattage, but if money were no object would move up the range to the Truepower New, same wattage again but IIRC it's modular. Only other alternative would be Seasonic under their own name, the X series.
Thanks for the advice Should I swap the 5770 for something like the 6870 or a GTX460? And the power supply in it at the moment is one of Aria's own brand, so I'm not overly confident in it I was only thinking CrossFire as a friend suggested it and I wanted to try out CrossFire, but I prefer saving cash to anything else
first thing to swap is that rubbish PSU and grab decent one. for single setup 500-600W will be perfectly fine, xfire maybe 650-750W to allow for beefier xfire setups although with 2x5770 600W would be fine. IMO id opt for single GPU as xfire/SLI although better still just arent worth it as perfromance can be anything from worse to +100%. spending money on something that "may" give a boost seems like a silly idea. + theres extra cost of a larger PSU, mobo that supports it, more chances of stuff going wrong, extra heat and power output.
Yep single GTX460 or 6870 must be the way to go. Then get a decent CPU cooler so you can OC that i5 should get 3.8 to 4.0ghz out of it easy. Corsair CX 600W is a good all-round buy at present @ £55.
i agree with rob the bank, buy a good cooler and get that i5 overclocked. greatly will increase cpu performance. i have 6870 and also suggest swopping to one of those.
try and overclock without upgrading cooler first if you want to spend spend on graphics - 2nd hand 480 is the best bargain
I have a Titan Fenrir already fitted And a profile set in BIOS for 3.8GHz. I just haven't been using it in a while cos of low computer usage (Damn you Real Life lol) Just swapped it back to 3.8GHz though as more time has been freed for computerness Anyway, I was thinking the 6870 after looking at Bit-Tech's review of it. And since this seems to be the general concensus of where to go, I reckon a look at finances is in order (or should i say, I need to beg for permission from the missus to spend or save up a few hundred quid ) And memeroot, I would get a second hand 480 but I don't think I need that sort of power...nor would I be in the good books with the missus for basically buying a money burning machine lol Thanks all for the advice Hopefully soon a 6870 and a Corsair 600W PSU will be in my possession.
