I wanna upgrade!

JellyMush · Nov 10, 2013

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/JellyMush/saved/2wYZ

There is my current build and i want to upgrade this christmas. my budget for upgrades is 500$. What should i get to improve my pc?

I game at 1080p but also would like to record and have a soild 50+ frames whilst i do.

rolandzhang3 · Nov 10, 2013

A 280x and a large SSD would be a nice choice

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1SjAh

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Storage: Kingston SSDNow V200 Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card ($299.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $459.98
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-10 18:37 EST-0500)

Otherwise you could wait for the non reference r9 290's and pick up a new PSU with that

mechan · Nov 10, 2013

See if you can find a used GTX 690 on ebay. Those will likely be going for 500-600$ now that the 780ti was released, and is likely your biggest bang for the buck.

Will get you far more than 50 FPS at 1080p easily.

JellyMush · Nov 10, 2013

rolandzhang3 :

A 280x and a large SSD would be a nice choice

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1SjAh

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks'

Would it be nesscary for one big? Also i could just go staright to a 780 superclocked? But i was told its a waste to get something so overpowered such as a 780.

Storage: Kingston SSDNow V200 Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card ($299.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $459.98
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-10 18:37 EST-0500)

Otherwise you could wait for the non reference r9 290's and pick up a new PSU with that

rolandzhang3 · Nov 10, 2013

You could go for a much smaller SSD and migrate windows over to it, the 780 at $500 or so is a pretty decent value, but I'd wait for the non reference 290s since the 290 performs very close and costs around $400

JellyMush · Nov 10, 2013

rolandzhang3 :

Why not a 290X? This will also be around christmas time. and the 290s perfom close to 780 superclocks?????!?!?

rolandzhang3 · Nov 10, 2013

Yep, they both perform very close to 780s. They'll have more overclock headroom with an aftermarket cooler design since the current ones run at 95 degrees celcius haha, they do use alot of power though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9k5_f_gsxJw#t=465

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