Upgrade suggestions

[chewychewbacca]

Hi,

My current setup is:

AMD Phenom II x 720 - Overclocked to 3.6ghz from 2.4ghz

2x Radeon HD4870 512mb in crossfire (Asus EAH4870 Dark Knight)

Foxconn A79A-S AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard

500gb and 2tb hard drives

OCZ Reaper HPC 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)

Xigmatek Dark Knight s1283V heatsink

Raidmax ATX Case

Corsair 750tx t50w psu


Will this be enough to last a while longer? what could I upgrade so I can play the latest in greatest at mostly full graphics, driving a 24 inch monitor at 1920x1080?

When I'm running extremely graphic intense games, my system crashes after a while if I don't open the windows, seems like the gpus are sensitive sometimes.

In general this setup seems to work well even today, i can play most games at almost full settings, but what should I plan on upgrading soon? any good routes to go?

 

[nordlead]

The only thing worth upgrading are the GPUs since you seem to be having some problems with them, but two 4870's are fairly powerful (I think it is on par with the 6970). However, you'd have to upgrade to something higher than like a SLI 6870 else you really are just side stepping.

You could get a AMD Phenom II X4 955 and overclock that. It would give you an extra core. From a gaming standpoint that 4th core doesn't make that much of a difference and since you already overclock the X3 should be sufficient for now.

Anyways, personally I'd wait a while longer (1-year or so) and then do an overhaul. My reason for this is your motherboard is outdated. It would be good to get to an AM3/+ socket or a LGA1155 (switch to intel) since the newer chips support all the latest processors and also have DDR3, USB3.0, PCIe3.0 and so forth.

You can re-use the case, PSU, heatsink, and HDDs.