what to upgrade?

ben0120

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Could you advise me what components to upgrade?

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
Motherboard: Gigabyte 870A-USB3L
Memory: 4.0GB Corsair DDR3 1600mhz XMS3 (2x 2GB)
Hard Drives: NEW! 500GB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s
Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA
Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 6870 1GB
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio
Internet: Wireless 802.11N 300Mbps MIMO USB dongle
Case: Zalman Z9 Plus
PSU: 700W Xigmatek

I use it for gaming and general use, could you help me identity my strengths, limitations and bottlenecks?

I want to spend around £100 and improve gaming performance, probably by upgrading GPU and or ram
 

ben0120

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Apr 20, 2014
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Oh sorry! I just wrote it all out but it didn't publish, how odd?

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
Motherboard: Gigabyte 870A-USB3L
Memory: 4.0GB Corsair DDR3 1600mhz XMS3 (2x 2GB)
Hard Drives: NEW! 500GB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s
Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA
Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 6870 1GB
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio
Internet: Wireless 802.11N 300Mbps MIMO USB dongle
Case: Zalman Z9 Plus
PSU: 700W Xigmatek

I use it for gaming and general use, could you help me identity my strengths, limitations and bottlenecks?