building gaming pc

seagod_wolf

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I had a gaming pc built from parts of my old one and some new bits and now I'm looking for what i should upgrade next.

3.30 gigahertz Intel Core i3-2120
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640
hard drive 1: OCZ-VERTEX3
hard drive 2: WDC WD5000AAKX-083CA1
2x 4GB ram cards

Sorry if that's not enough/ not the correct information but i don't know much about computers with regards to their construction, hence the post.
 

ittimjones

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either CPU or GPU. Your CPU isn't a bad gaming CPU. It's ranked in the 2nd tier in this chart:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

Your CPU will hold u up in the MOST demanding games, but should be fine in most games.

Your GPU will be ur bottle neck most often. I would upgrade that. If u MUST have new hardware now, get a GTX 650 Ti Boost (or better GPU). But I would wait a couple months for the next series of stuff to release. Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD are all slated to release new hardware this year. and THAT is bringing down sales of parts right now cause you'll be outdated by the endof the year if you buy now...

If you have an SLI capable board, case, and PSU. I would do that as ur next upgrade actually. You should get roughly 80% performance boost with SLI in most situations.
 

seagod_wolf

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many thanks for the quick reply, in that case i will wait until the new releases
given that my smaller hard drive only holds 50GB and the larger one has a much slower read write speed would you recommend upgrading those sooner rather than later?
 
Your CPU is great for all games. It will give you very playable performance even in the most demanding games - with infrequent drops to 20-25fps.

Definitely get a better graphics card - it's the most important component for games, by far. The GTX 660 is at a great price right now, and can play all games at 1080 on Ultra + or - MSAA.