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intruda119

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Just had a freak accident(water+gpu) for the most part and got me looking into rebuilding. Figure Ill ask you guys for some advice on what I should do.

Frankenstein rig
Mostly only gaming at 1360x768

Case is Antec
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition cpu
Gigabyte 6950 1gb gddr5
8gb cosair vengence ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233144
Corsair 700 psu
4 Velcoiraptor drives.
Corsair h70(I believe)

Havent had any luck with overclocking, so mostly stock.

Games I play majority of the time
Bf4
nba 2k
apb
payday/lfd
Some other random popular games

Nothing special, and not trying to max out bf4/crysis or anything. Just medium for the most part.

Anything I could upgrade that would improve performance? PC feels ancient.

Or should I pass this on to family member.



 
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If you can afford to I would upgrade to a 1080p monitor. Then I suggest that you upgrade the CPU to something good that would require a new motherboard and possibly a new Windows license unless you use Windows 8. That GPU isn't too old so if you're low on cash or don't want to spend too much I would keep it for a bit longer.
 
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Monitor and GPU
The Nvidia 800 series is too be released within the next 3 months or so.. I would hold on too your current card and wait until then.
As far as a monitor goes it's all what you want; personally for gaming I want a 144MHz monitor, BenQ and Asus has 24" ones around 250$
 
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Thanks for all the suggestions so far. I prefer(could change soon) for bigger monitor. 32 and up, as I use for media and couch gaming. But will probably upgrade monitor around black friday unless I come across a great deal. I do have a 22 1080p monitor that I have as a backup though.

Budget wise, nothing crazy got a little one on the way. When I do a real upgrade, Ill probably look into the i7;s or newer amd cpus. For mobo and cpu probably under 200 maybe.

I do have a Microcenter(amazing prices from what ive seen) and plan on making a trip there Thursday.


If you guys could give me an idea of what a upgraded cpu/mobo would look like. Ill probably grab cpu/mobo, more ram and ssd.

Appreciate all your help/ideas.
 
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I wouldn't bother doing a CPU/Mobo upgrade, more ram and ssd is fine, but I would spring for a newer GPU, thats whats really holding the rig back. the CPU you have is actually really good
 
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