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December 3, 2013 11:53:38 AM

Current system: MSI 890FXA-GD70, 8GB DDR3, AMD Phenom II X4 965 OC'd 4.0Ghz, 2- XFX Radeon HD 5770 1GB in CrossFireX, Thermaltake TR2 TRX-650M 650W, Asus Blu-Ray burner, OCZ Agility 3 AGT3-25SAT3-60G (boot), Western Digital 1 TB Caviar Green SATA (data). 3- Dell 19in flat panels (3840 x1024). Would like better FPS in current games. Should I upgrade video or MB or both? Don't want to spend tons of $.

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December 3, 2013 11:56:50 AM

You just need a beefier GPU. 280X or anything similar will work.
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December 3, 2013 11:57:10 AM

Video card first. The CPU isn't too bad, but if you go high end, there is a chance it could be a bottleneck. For my money, I'd go graphics card though. Just don't spend too much (about $250 US sounds like the sweet spot.)
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December 3, 2013 2:02:25 PM

Anonymous said:
Video card first. The CPU isn't too bad, but if you go high end, there is a chance it could be a bottleneck. For my money, I'd go graphics card though. Just don't spend too much (about $250 US sounds like the sweet spot.)


What would you recommend? I have 2 PCIe video cards now connected in a crossfire config. Should I get just one card or two?
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December 3, 2013 6:34:27 PM

Just get one powerful card. I've never had great luck with SLI or CFX. Uses too much electricity and makes more noise. Also, for about the $250 mark, I can't imagine you would get any kind of really powerful video card times 2. I can't really recommend any video cards because I don't know what kinds of games you play. Some games are better suited to AMD video cards whereas some are better suited for Nvidia. I would also need to know the state of your power supply (make, model, watts, etc.) I would look at the toms hardware article about best Graphics card for the money (just came out a few days ago I think.) and go from there.

Good Luck!
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