Jasper Beardly
Queensland
1 posts
Hey all,
I'm looking at upgrade my PC anyone got any tips on what to get that wont break the bank looking to spend 500 or so depending.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I'm a little lost when it come to this field.
This is my current Rig:
CPU:
Intel Dual Core E6300
2M Cache, 2.80 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB
MB:
P5QL-SE Asus mbx
LGA775, P43, 1333FSB, 2x DDR2-1066, PCI-Ex16, 4x SATA, GigLAN, 6Chl, ATX
Graphics:
Gforce 9600 GT
512 MB
Ram:
1066 DDR2 2x2GB
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DK
Brisbane, Queensland
250 posts
skythra
Brisbane, Queensland
3708 posts
I guess i'll advise you to get a i5 2500k, 8gb ddr3 ram, gigabyte mobo probably the p67a-ud3R-b3 and a gtx 560.
Reuse your current psu and case most likely just okay assuming they're above the 550watt power mark.
GL HF
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sleepy
Sunshine Coast, Queensland
1845 posts
typo aint gonna last...o
advice advise.
skythra gottit ;)
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Bah
Brisbane, Queensland
4418 posts
He might have meant he wants qgl to advise him.
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Jasper Beardly
Queensland
2 posts
Yeah advice, my bad, haha.
I primarily use it for gaming
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Jasper Beardly
Queensland
3 posts
sleepy
Sunshine Coast, Queensland
1846 posts
He might have meant he wants qgl to advise him.
well clearly he didnt given the context of the word used in the OP.
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Bah
Brisbane, Queensland
4421 posts
Well no, it was clear he didn't when he admitted his mistake.
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skythra
Brisbane, Queensland
3714 posts
Im just glad sleepy noticed my subtle wordplay :P
maybe it's a lot more subtle to me when i've ben drinking
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Door
Brisbane, Queensland
942 posts
Grown men bickering over a spelling error? Count me in!!!@!
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Jasper Beardly
Queensland
4 posts
Thanks all. This was really helpful, I'm so much closer to knowing what I'm after...
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skythra
Brisbane, Queensland
3717 posts
Sounds like you've got some subtle word play yourself ;).
Seriously, i5 2500k is a perfect gamers CPU, the mother board matches it, a gtx 560 or similar works well with it, and if you got a couple of the 560's you'd get in sli pretty excellent performance.
There are asus equivilants of the gigabyte board, check its price and find the p67 version in asus of similar price range.
Here's some brands:
Motherboards:
Gigabyte, asus, asrock
Videocards:
Evga, XFX,
RAM:
Not as important as long as its any of the above (with the iX's from a while ago, you no longer overclock ram with your FSB so you don't need supergood ram to match your OC). Kingston, OCZ, G.Skill, Giel, Corsair, uhh.. others. get the 12800 or whatever i think is 1600mhz.....
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Tollaz0r!
Brisbane, Queensland
11207 posts
Usually AMD give better bang for your buck, but the moment the i5 2500K craps over similar priced AMD CPU's.
The Fan on it is apparently loud, so you may want to look into an after market cooler, about $50 for reasonable one.
You'll probably need to pay about $600 for a good bang for your buck PC that will last a little while.
$200ish for CPU.
$50ish for 4gig ram (more if you can)
$2-300ish for Vid card.
Reuse PSU,Case and HDD to save money. Or spend about $50-100 on a HDD.
Also, remember that not all HDD are created equal. For the same or less $'s spent you can find HDD's that are superior to similar priced ones.
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Nerfington
Brisbane, Queensland
2753 posts
$50ish for 4gig ram (more if you can)
I had no idea DDR3 ram was so cheap O_o, in my day you paid $110 for 2gb of 667MHz DDR2. :P
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HerbalLizard
Brisbane, Queensland
4932 posts
For the love of god get a decent psu the sheer volume of fuckers building up mid range gaming rigs and totally negligenting the psu is pretty high. Why is my new rig unstable? Why do I have graphic corruption? Why does my new rig not post blah blah blah fucking blah
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Tollaz0r!
Brisbane, Queensland
11208 posts
Or, if your system is fine with the previous PSU use that.
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`ViPER`
Brisbane, Queensland
3927 posts
in my day you paid $110 for 2gb of 667MHz DDR2. :P
in MY day we paid $200 for 4MB of ram.
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Jasper Beardly
Queensland
5 posts
MY PSU is only 500W so that's gonna need to be replaced, HDD's fine that's 1TB 7200rpm. So by the looks of it this will be a little more of an expensive endeavour then first predicted.
Thanks guys I know now what to be looking at. Now to start saving.
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HerbalLizard
Brisbane, Queensland
4937 posts
I would upgrade the psu first then go the video card... then wait a bit till the pricing on the newer sandy vag shit gets a little better get the cpu mainboard and ram + an ssd or two at that time
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Nerfington
Brisbane, Queensland
2754 posts
in MY day we paid $200 for 4MB of ram.
Well I really just meant the last time I bought ram... but the only other time was in 2003 sooo it probably still wasn't that bad.
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DK
Brisbane, Queensland
251 posts
Jasper Beardly
Queensland
10 posts
This is what im getting, I now have a 600W ps a GTX560ti oc, And tomorow i'll be picking up, Intel Asus 2500k i5, Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3P-B3 L1155 P67 Chipset 4x DDR3 SATA3 SATA2 USB3.0 HD crossfire ATX, And 8gb of Gskill ripjaw ram. Thoughts?
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skythra
Brisbane, Queensland
4496 posts
That motherboard you put in isn't good if later down the track you want to sli two 560 ti's.
In fact you can't run SLi on that board at all. Even if you could one slot is 16x and the other is 4x so it would run badly.
Of course, you probably wouldn't do that with that powersupply anyway.
So really up to you, if you dont expect to upgrade your PC at any stage you're good with that, but if you do want to upgrade later get the Z68X-UD3R-B3 instead, it's similar to that mobo but with 2 pci-e slots which can run in SLi, (although one of them runs in 8x, the sli bridge will make up for the rest of the data transfer).
Anyway, looks pretty standard everywhere else for running modern games you shouldn't have any trouble.
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MrAnderson
Melbourne, Victoria
27 posts
$500 hmmmm
At that price a gradual thing I think.
PSU - Cool master 700 watt $ 87
then buy GPU
GPU 6950 - $ 210
Motherboard
AsRock Z68-Professional Extreme4 Gen3 - $180
CPU 2500k - $220
RAM
Corsair Vengence 1600mhz 8gb (2 x 4gb) - $80
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Jasper Beardly
Queensland
11 posts
$500 hmmmm
At that price a gradual thing I think.
PSU - Cool master 700 watt $ 87
then buy GPU
GPU 6950 - $ 210
Motherboard
AsRock Z68-Professional Extreme4 Gen3 - $180
CPU 2500k - $220
RAM
Corsair Vengence 1600mhz 8gb (2 x 4gb) - $80
Yeah after talking to some people on some forums, i'm going with the Asrock Extreme4, much better mobo. The Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4 also has my eye though..
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MrAnderson
Melbourne, Victoria
28 posts
@jasper I have the ud4 and think its great, I just think that asrock offers better value for money.
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