PC upgrades
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Hi all
I am in the process of upgrading my gaming pc. It is connected to the tv s o don't need monitor. Here is what I have so far
I5 4570 3.2
1600 ddr3 8gb 2x4
Msi gtx 770 2gb
180gb os hdd 7200
2tb media hdd 7200
Msi motherboard the model I can't remember at the mo
Coolermaster thunder 750w psu
Xb1 controller
Wireless keyboard and mouse . Microsoft 4000 , not good I know
What else can I add, I am looking at a hardware refresh every 3 to 5 years for playing games and media
I was thinking Ssd and 8gb more ram. Any suggestions guys
Cheers
I am in the process of upgrading my gaming pc. It is connected to the tv s o don't need monitor. Here is what I have so far
I5 4570 3.2
1600 ddr3 8gb 2x4
Msi gtx 770 2gb
180gb os hdd 7200
2tb media hdd 7200
Msi motherboard the model I can't remember at the mo
Coolermaster thunder 750w psu
Xb1 controller
Wireless keyboard and mouse . Microsoft 4000 , not good I know
What else can I add, I am looking at a hardware refresh every 3 to 5 years for playing games and media
I was thinking Ssd and 8gb more ram. Any suggestions guys
Cheers
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For sure get 16GB memory. As 8 is kind of minimum right now with the high end games.
You must get an SSD or 2, they are so much better than HDD. If you can afford it get an SSD for OS+programs and an SSD for games.
My OS+programs is on my 240GB SSD, after a year its at 142GB full of total 232GB.
XBox1 controller, have you seen the new nvidia shield controller? Looks similar to the XB1 controller:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VohrddwVQqg
Motherboard has optics and it's connected to a Panasonic 5.1 1000w surround sound
I can get the memory and Ssd this month and maybe an Ssd for me steam games the month after. Is there anything else? What about cooling? I have a gtx 770 oc edition but haven't tried over clocking it yet. CPU is locked though.
Enjoy
If you play games that very rarely get patched, like less than once a month or so many months then it dont matter what you get HDD or SSD.
I do remember though, playing games and you advance or change level, you'd hear the HDD turn on / speed up sound ...loading... - there is basically none of that these days, with SSD at least.
I will start with adding more RAM and if I feel i can justify the cost of a SSD then I will get one.
That's how I feel with them a SSD is the kinda upgrade you do when there is nothing else left to do they are never worth the money imo, it's just basically everything loading a little faster they are really boot drives, get your ram first.
Even I don't have one yet and spent so much upgrading
Just a lot prettier on screen
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/audio-visual/av-accessories/nvidia-3d-vision-2-1041734/review
Or if your TV is already 3d, Nvidia has special 3d drivers that will work with it.
A 270x is a great upgrade for such an old card, and the price seems cool after checking some others or there is from the green team the last gen GTX 660 which performers a little lower or the GTX 760 which is a little better.
You should go with a 270x or a 760.
The 2gb version is £125 and some reviews have said there no difference whatsoever between the 2gb and 4. Just hoping I'll only need the card.
The system is
Intel quad 2 core Q6600 2.4ghz
4gb ram
300gb H/D samsung
Windows vista 32bit.
Was thinking of getting windows 8 and a new H/D at some point.
Another vote for SSD here. Your build is good and an SSD as your system will give the whole thing a nice boost. I wouldn't worry too much about RAM unless you're doing lots of multitasking/video editing. MX100s are dirt cheap at the moment.
HDD is mechanical. It has a platter and a needle has to travel to access the data on that part (think reecord player with a possessed needle arm) SSD is chips which can be accessed at the same time by the controller (with a bunch of caveats) this means no spin up time, very fast data reading/writing and no need to defrag (imagine a record having a song in bits all over one side with needle having to jump about to read it) defragging puts the 'song' in the same place. Not good for SSDs though because if the data is all on one chip, you lose the benefit of reading multiple chips at the same time. There are some buts and actually's and on older SSDs crappy controllers and unreliable hardware gave people a reason to hold off, but this is much less of an issue now, and with the prices as they are at the moment there's really no excuse for an SSD as system with a couple of your favourite games on it (or BF4 sigh...)
How many 64 bit games are around now anyway? I admit I'm a bit out of the loop but last time I looked I couldn't find a single one that wasn't 32bit.
32bit games can't utilize more than 3.1 gb of Ram if they wanted too. Running Skyrim the other day on my 12gb Ram rig I had the game with 100+ mods, a browser with over 100 tabs open, a live TV viewer plus a couple other apps running at the same time with Ram to spare.
I think your best option at this point would be a better graphics card such as a Sapphire R9 290 tri-X 4GB Vram they're coming down in price currently at £280 at Amazon, was £330+ only a month or two ago. Very tempting...
To be honest you really need to be looking at a complete upgrade, thats some ancient hardware/software you have there.
Only £260 on Overclockers UK, on pre-order though.
For the extra £100 over the R9 290x the price probably works out about the same (after a year? longer the better) when you consider the electricity usage comparison.
Too bad I have to wait for next generation cards
That reason doesn't even make sense because you cant download quicker just because you have an SSD. The cap for you downloading is your internet speed, not your harddrive speed.
This 970 sounds like no joke.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-review