- Aug 15, 2009
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Hello boys and girls! My question is whether an upgrade would really be worthwhile for me. These days I'd probably consider myself more a casual gamer, mostly Xbox and PS3 lately, what with grad school and kids etc.
With the recent console announcements, I'm not really excited for either one, and although I know I'll eventually buy them, it won't be for a few years. Which brings me to my actual question, I figure I should go ahead and upgrade my PC, so it will last me a few years!
I used to frequent the forums constantly, but I've been out of the game for quite awhile now, and although I still keep up with big news, I'd like to see what the forum gurus say!
Budget: somewhere in the neighborhood of $300, I plan on selling my current GPU to offset costs, so the budget is actually more like $200ish(so initially I'll spend around $300).
Current specs:
i7 920 running at I think 3.5ish right now?
6gb OCZ gold ddr3
OCZ vertex 3 128gb ssd
Couple of spinners for data
Radeon HD5850 1gb
Corsair TX 750
Saber tooth x58 mobo, only pcie 2.0
My thoughts were to upgrade to 12gb ram, and grab a 7870xt. But I'm so far out of the game(as you can tell from my rig!) is it even worth these upgrades? Any new rumored GPU's coming out next month I don't know about?
Thanks for the help!
With the recent console announcements, I'm not really excited for either one, and although I know I'll eventually buy them, it won't be for a few years. Which brings me to my actual question, I figure I should go ahead and upgrade my PC, so it will last me a few years!
I used to frequent the forums constantly, but I've been out of the game for quite awhile now, and although I still keep up with big news, I'd like to see what the forum gurus say!
Budget: somewhere in the neighborhood of $300, I plan on selling my current GPU to offset costs, so the budget is actually more like $200ish(so initially I'll spend around $300).
Current specs:
i7 920 running at I think 3.5ish right now?
6gb OCZ gold ddr3
OCZ vertex 3 128gb ssd
Couple of spinners for data
Radeon HD5850 1gb
Corsair TX 750
Saber tooth x58 mobo, only pcie 2.0
My thoughts were to upgrade to 12gb ram, and grab a 7870xt. But I'm so far out of the game(as you can tell from my rig!) is it even worth these upgrades? Any new rumored GPU's coming out next month I don't know about?
Thanks for the help!
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