Hey guys,
In February 2014, I built my first decent quality desktop, using advice I received mainly from here. It was a very budget conscious build and I really just needed to get up and running.
As the rig is approaching 2 years old, I'd like to start upgrading piece by piece. I've never done serious gaming, mainly just WoW, which I'm told is not very demanding. But in 2016, I'm planning to game a lot more and also some video editing.
At the mo, these are the components:
-Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 Motherboard (AMD 970/SB950, DDR3, 6 x S-ATA 600, ATX, PCI-Express 2.0, USB 3.0, Socket AM3+)
-AMD FX6300 Black Edition 6 Core (3.5/4.1GHz, 8MB Level 3 Cache, 6MB Level 2 Cache, Socket AM3+, 95W, Retail Boxed)
-VTX3D Radeon HD 7770 X-Edition
-Kingston Technology 120GB Solid State Drive 2.5-inch V300 SATA 3 with Adapter
-WD - 2TB Desktop SATA Hard Drive - OEM - Green
-Corsair Builder Series CX 430 Watt ATX/EPS 80 PLUS Bronze Power Supply Unit
-Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 Mhz CL9 XMP Performance Desktop Memory Kit Black
I was wondering where people would advise starting the upgrade. I imagined the CPU and GPU?
If anyone would like to recommend examples of either that would be considerable upgrades to what I have, that would be great. I don't mind spending a decent bit of money but I don't need 100% top of the range components like a Titan or something.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards.
In February 2014, I built my first decent quality desktop, using advice I received mainly from here. It was a very budget conscious build and I really just needed to get up and running.
As the rig is approaching 2 years old, I'd like to start upgrading piece by piece. I've never done serious gaming, mainly just WoW, which I'm told is not very demanding. But in 2016, I'm planning to game a lot more and also some video editing.
At the mo, these are the components:
-Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 Motherboard (AMD 970/SB950, DDR3, 6 x S-ATA 600, ATX, PCI-Express 2.0, USB 3.0, Socket AM3+)
-AMD FX6300 Black Edition 6 Core (3.5/4.1GHz, 8MB Level 3 Cache, 6MB Level 2 Cache, Socket AM3+, 95W, Retail Boxed)
-VTX3D Radeon HD 7770 X-Edition
-Kingston Technology 120GB Solid State Drive 2.5-inch V300 SATA 3 with Adapter
-WD - 2TB Desktop SATA Hard Drive - OEM - Green
-Corsair Builder Series CX 430 Watt ATX/EPS 80 PLUS Bronze Power Supply Unit
-Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 Mhz CL9 XMP Performance Desktop Memory Kit Black
I was wondering where people would advise starting the upgrade. I imagined the CPU and GPU?
If anyone would like to recommend examples of either that would be considerable upgrades to what I have, that would be great. I don't mind spending a decent bit of money but I don't need 100% top of the range components like a Titan or something.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards.