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November 13, 2013 4:52:50 PM

Hey I'm looking to get my pc up to date to play next gen games I have £300-350 to spend, atm I have a intel i5 2500k 3.7ghz a 4gb ram stick gtx 550 ti 1gb and h61 mobo.

What could I do to get it to play battlefield 4 on max. Thanks

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a b U Graphics card
November 13, 2013 5:07:01 PM

Your processor is still very good. How you spend your money is up to you, but to get to Ultra settings at 1080P (you didn't mention a resolution) you are going to need to spend the majority of your budget on graphics.
Doubling up on RAM and (maybe) upgrading your PSU is probably going to be advisable too. For some reason you paired an overclockable CPU with a non overclocking chipset, this means you are never really going to extract the full value from your processor, but thankfully it's very good out of the box.

Bit hard to advise specifically as I don't know how much money you need to spend on things like an upgraded PSU, but something like a GTX770 or R9 280X is likely to be affordable (at around £225-250) and should have no issues with 1080P, even with everything turned up. If you are running a higher resolution or multi monitor setup, you are probably going to need a bigger budget to max things out.
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November 13, 2013 5:18:28 PM

Rammy said:
Your processor is still very good. How you spend your money is up to you, but to get to Ultra settings at 1080P (you didn't mention a resolution) you are going to need to spend the majority of your budget on graphics.
Doubling up on RAM and (maybe) upgrading your PSU is probably going to be advisable too. For some reason you paired an overclockable CPU with a non overclocking chipset, this means you are never really going to extract the full value from your processor, but thankfully it's very good out of the box.

Bit hard to advise specifically as I don't know how much money you need to spend on things like an upgraded PSU, but something like a GTX770 or R9 280X is likely to be affordable (at around £225-250) and should have no issues with 1080P, even with everything turned up. If you are running a higher resolution or multi monitor setup, you are probably going to need a bigger budget to max things out.


Sorry I got a 680w power supply from maplin uk, and I plan to just use just one monitor its 1920x1080.
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a b U Graphics card
November 13, 2013 5:21:21 PM

680W is plenty in theory, but if it's a poor quality PSU and you have money, it's worth considering when you upgrade. Do you know the model/manufacturer?
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a b U Graphics card
November 13, 2013 5:55:26 PM

Crazypancake03 said:
Rammy said:
680W is plenty in theory, but if it's a poor quality PSU and you have money, it's worth considering when you upgrade. Do you know the model/manufacturer?


This is the link to it

http://www.maplin.co.uk/g7-680w-atx-pc-power-supply-345...


Ooook, you want to get rid of that thing asap lol. I'm not 100% sure quite how bad it is, as the details provided aren't amazing, but what there is makes it look like complete rubbish, plus you get what you pay for, a ~700W of decent quality should cost around £60-70+.
It has a passive PFC, no PCIe connectors, only 3 Molex connectors, and a single SATA. Quite how you could possibly even attempt to draw 680W from it, I don't know. It also has no efficiency rating.
Bottom line -it's bad.

I'd allocate at least £55-60 of your budget buying a decent quality PSU. Something in the 550-600W range is likely to be plenty for the graphics cards I listed. A XFX Core 550 or 650 would be my first choice but others in the sub £70 bracket include the Antec HCG 620, Seasonic S12II 620 and the potential value winner, Corsair CX600M which is cheapest and also has modular cables which makes things a bit neater.
Then I'd check into the specifics of your ram, the speed etc, and double it up (it might be easiest just to buy the same brand+model you have now). That should set you back around £25-35 for a 4Gb stick.

That leaves you with £200-250 to spend, which gives you enough to be looking at the R9 280X and GTX770. From what I've seen the Nvidia card has the edge in BF4, but it also costs more. There isn't really a bad answer here, both cards are basically last generations top cards, and the main difference between them then was price.
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November 14, 2013 12:04:38 AM

Rammy said:
Crazypancake03 said:
Rammy said:
680W is plenty in theory, but if it's a poor quality PSU and you have money, it's worth considering when you upgrade. Do you know the model/manufacturer?


This is the link to it

http://www.maplin.co.uk/g7-680w-atx-pc-power-supply-345...


Ooook, you want to get rid of that thing asap lol. I'm not 100% sure quite how bad it is, as the details provided aren't amazing, but what there is makes it look like complete rubbish, plus you get what you pay for, a ~700W of decent quality should cost around £60-70+.
It has a passive PFC, no PCIe connectors, only 3 Molex connectors, and a single SATA. Quite how you could possibly even attempt to draw 680W from it, I don't know. It also has no efficiency rating.
Bottom line -it's bad.

I'd allocate at least £55-60 of your budget buying a decent quality PSU. Something in the 550-600W range is likely to be plenty for the graphics cards I listed. A XFX Core 550 or 650 would be my first choice but others in the sub £70 bracket include the Antec HCG 620, Seasonic S12II 620 and the potential value winner, Corsair CX600M which is cheapest and also has modular cables which makes things a bit neater.
Then I'd check into the specifics of your ram, the speed etc, and double it up (it might be easiest just to buy the same brand+model you have now). That should set you back around £25-35 for a 4Gb stick.

That leaves you with £200-250 to spend, which gives you enough to be looking at the R9 280X and GTX770. From what I've seen the Nvidia card has the edge in BF4, but it also costs more. There isn't really a bad answer here, both cards are basically last generations top cards, and the main difference between them then was price.



Lol ok thanks, ill get a CX 600 always through mine was a bit shabby, but yeah should I upgrade my mobo I got this one
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=...

Don't want to unless I have to not got a lot of money to work with.

Oh and the ram I got is discontinued. :/ 

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