help upgrading rig..!!

[nikpadnik]

CPU
AMD Phenom(tm) 9650 Quad-Core Processor
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz

RAM
4 GB

Video Card
ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series
Features:
Pixel Shader version 5.0
Vertex Shader version 5.0
Dedicated Video RAM 1024 MB

monitor Dell e1909w 19" lcd widescreen

motherboard asus m4a78 em

This is my current rig..,i am planning to upgrade, i feel my cpu and gpu needs an upgrade
kindly give your insight.. i am a gamer currently saints row 4 is running quiet well on mid specs.. jus scared with the release of gta 5 and its req pls help..,

i am a bit biased i like to go with choices of amd and ati.., help me with that and wat or how much would i be spending..?? if its around 15k tat would be nice.., already have 8 gb ram waiting to install.. so this 15k is for gpu and cpu can add a max of 5k if motherboard is also needed.. any advise would be helpful thnx.!!

 

[iblowuup]

Do you know your motherboard model number?

 

[spyrizzle]

You will need a better cpu/apu and video card to enjoy gta5 on higher settings.

phenom X II 975 or greater. as for video card, HD 7700 would be a great card. or if you want to go the gtx route the gtx 660 looks like it would handle gta5 with no problems.

If you are considering a new build the I5 2500k is advisable. it is cheaper than the 3570k and overclocks better.
the GPU choices would remain the same however.

 

[nikpadnik]

Do you know your motherboard model number?

motherboard asus m4a78 em

 

[nikpadnik]

You will need a better cpu/apu and video card to enjoy gta5 on higher settings.

phenom X II 975 or greater. as for video card, HD 7700 would be a great card. or if you want to go the gtx route the gtx 660 looks like it would handle gta5 with no problems.

If you are considering a new build the I5 2500k is advisable. it is cheaper than the 3570k and overclocks better.
the GPU choices would remain the same however.

thnx., but i am a bit biased i like to go with choices of amd and ati.., help me with that and wat or how much would i be spendink..?? if its around 15k tat would be nice.., already have 8 gb ram waiting to install.. so this 15k is for gpu and cpu can add a max of 5k if motherboard is also needed.. any advise would be helpful thnx.!!

 

[spyrizzle]

AMD is awesome.

fx 8350 all the way. or if you have tons of cash to blow the fx-9xxx is also nice
as for mother boards I myself swear by ASUS. the sabertooth is nice as is the M5a990fx board. both are going to set you back 150 to 200.
and of course, the 7700 or the 660 for your video card.
the stock cooler on the 8350 will do fine if you plan to leave it screaming at 4.0 overclock it and you'll need something else.

 

[iblowuup]

Do you know your motherboard model number?

motherboard asus m4a78 em

I would get a Phenom II X4 965 and an HD 7850. Should cost about $250 total and you wouldn't have to replace your motherboard.

 

[nikpadnik]

Thnx wat abt AMD Phenom X4 9850 (4 * 2500 MHz)??
why Phenom II X4 965?

 

[nikpadnik]

AMD is awesome.

fx 8350 all the way. or if you have tons of cash to blow the fx-9xxx is also nice
as for mother boards I myself swear by ASUS. the sabertooth is nice as is the M5a990fx board. both are going to set you back 150 to 200.
and of course, the 7700 or the 660 for your video card.
the stock cooler on the 8350 will do fine if you plan to leave it screaming at 4.0 overclock it and you'll need something else.

cool but not gonna invest tat much if i have an alternate option wat abt this??
I would get a Phenom II X4 965 and an HD 7850..?

 

[iblowuup]

Thnx wat abt AMD Phenom X4 9850 (4 * 2500 MHz)??
why Phenom II X4 965?

The 9850 is an older processor and overall is much less powerful than the 965. They both have 4 cores but due to architecture improvements and a higher clock speed the 965 does much much better in games. The 965 is also easily overclocked.

 

[spyrizzle]

the 7850 is a good choice to make.

 

[nikpadnik]

Thnx wat abt AMD Phenom X4 9850 (4 * 2500 MHz)??
why Phenom II X4 965?

The 9850 is an older processor and overall is much less powerful than the 965. They both have 4 cores but due to architecture improvements and a higher clock speed the 965 does much much better in games. The 965 is also easily overclocked.

Cool.. then phenom II x4 965 it is for cpu..,

gpu?
HD 7850 and HD 7700 wats the big diff?

 

[nikpadnik]

the 7850 is a good choice to make.

can you explain why? is thr a big diff? is thr a diff first of all??

 

[spyrizzle]

860MHz Engine Clock
2GB GDDR5 Memory
1200MHz Memory Clock (4.8 Gbps GDDR5)
153.6GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum)
1.76 TFLOPS Single Precision compute power
GCN Architecture
16 Compute Units (1024 Stream Processors)
64 Texture Units
128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
32 Color ROP Units
Dual Geometry Engines
Dual Asynchronous Compute Engines (ACE)
256-bit GDDR5 memory interface
PCI Express 3.0 x16 bus interface
DirectX® 11.1-capable graphics
OpenGL 4.2 support
Partially Resident Textures (PRT)
Ultra-high resolution texture streaming technology
Image quality enhancement technology
Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing
Adaptive anti-aliasing
Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)
Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing (EQAA)
DirectX® 9/10/11 Supersample Anti-Aliasing (SSAA)
Requires AMD Catalyst™ 12.2 or later
16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology2
Up to 6 displays supported
Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
Display grouping
Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
Discrete Digital Multi-Point Audio (DDMA)
AMD App Acceleration3
Supports OpenCL™ 1.2, DirectCompute 11 & Microsoft C++ AMP
Double Precision Floating Point
AMD HD Media Accelerator
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
H.264
VC-1
MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
MVC (Blu-ray 3D)
MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX/Xvid)
Adobe Flash
DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
WMV HD
Video Codec Engine (VCE)
Multi-stream hardware H.264 encoder
Full-fixed mode: 1080p @ 60 FPS encoding
Hybrid mode: Stream Processor-assisted encoding
Enhanced Video Quality features
Advanced post-processing and scaling
Deblocking
Denoising
Automatic deinterlacing
Mosquito noise reduction
Edge enhancement
3:2 pulldown detection
Advanced video color correction
Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)
Independent video gamma control
Flesh tone correction
Color vibrance control
Dynamic contrast
Dynamic video range control
AMD HD3D technology5
Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
Blu-ray 3D support
Stereoscopic 3D gaming
3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
AMD CrossFire™ multi-GPU technology6
Supports dual-GPU performance scaling
Cutting-edge integrated display support
DisplayPort 1.2
Max resolution: 4096x2160 @ 60 Hz per display
Multi-Stream
21.6 Gbps bandwidth (HBR2)
High bit-rate audio
Quad HD/4K/UHDTV display support
1080p60 Stereoscopic 3D (Frame Sequential Format)
HDMI® (With 4K, 3D, x.v.Color™ and Deep Color)
Max resolution: 4096x2160 @ 30 Hz
1080p30 Stereoscopic 3D (Packed Frame Format)
Quad HD/4K/UHDTV video display support
Dual-link DVI with HDCP
Max resolution: 2560x1600
VGA
Max resolution: 2048x1536
Integrated HD audio controller
Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology4
Automatic power management with low power idle states
AMD PowerTune technology4
Intelligent TDP management technology
Dynamic clockspeed/performance enhancement for games
AMD ZeroCore Power technology4
Ultra-low idle power when the connected display is in power saving mode
Efficient low power mode for desktop work
Secondary GPUs in an AMD CrossFire™ technology configuration power down when unneeded
AMD Catalyst™ graphics and HD video configuration software
Software support for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP
AMD Catalyst™ Control Center - AMD Catalyst™ software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing features of AMD Radeon products.
Unified Graphics display driver - AMD Catalyst™ software enabling other PC programs and devices to use advanced graphics, video, and features of AMD Radeon™ products.

 

[spyrizzle]

860MHz Engine Clock
2GB GDDR5 Memory
1200MHz Memory Clock (4.8 Gbps GDDR5)
153.6GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum)
1.76 TFLOPS Single Precision compute power
GCN Architecture
16 Compute Units (1024 Stream Processors)
64 Texture Units
128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
32 Color ROP Units
Dual Geometry Engines
Dual Asynchronous Compute Engines (ACE)
256-bit GDDR5 memory interface
PCI Express 3.0 x16 bus interface
DirectX® 11.1-capable graphics
OpenGL 4.2 support
Partially Resident Textures (PRT)
Ultra-high resolution texture streaming technology
Image quality enhancement technology
Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing
Adaptive anti-aliasing
Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)
Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing (EQAA)
DirectX® 9/10/11 Supersample Anti-Aliasing (SSAA)
Requires AMD Catalyst™ 12.2 or later
16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology2
Up to 6 displays supported
Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
Display grouping
Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
Discrete Digital Multi-Point Audio (DDMA)
AMD App Acceleration3
Supports OpenCL™ 1.2, DirectCompute 11 & Microsoft C++ AMP
Double Precision Floating Point
AMD HD Media Accelerator
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
H.264
VC-1
MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
MVC (Blu-ray 3D)
MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX/Xvid)
Adobe Flash
DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
WMV HD
Video Codec Engine (VCE)
Multi-stream hardware H.264 encoder
Full-fixed mode: 1080p @ 60 FPS encoding
Hybrid mode: Stream Processor-assisted encoding
Enhanced Video Quality features
Advanced post-processing and scaling
Deblocking
Denoising
Automatic deinterlacing
Mosquito noise reduction
Edge enhancement
3:2 pulldown detection
Advanced video color correction
Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)
Independent video gamma control
Flesh tone correction
Color vibrance control
Dynamic contrast
Dynamic video range control
AMD HD3D technology5
Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
Blu-ray 3D support
Stereoscopic 3D gaming
3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
AMD CrossFire™ multi-GPU technology6
Supports dual-GPU performance scaling
Cutting-edge integrated display support
DisplayPort 1.2
Max resolution: 4096x2160 @ 60 Hz per display
Multi-Stream
21.6 Gbps bandwidth (HBR2)
High bit-rate audio
Quad HD/4K/UHDTV display support
1080p60 Stereoscopic 3D (Frame Sequential Format)
HDMI® (With 4K, 3D, x.v.Color™ and Deep Color)
Max resolution: 4096x2160 @ 30 Hz
1080p30 Stereoscopic 3D (Packed Frame Format)
Quad HD/4K/UHDTV video display support
Dual-link DVI with HDCP
Max resolution: 2560x1600
VGA
Max resolution: 2048x1536
Integrated HD audio controller
Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology4
Automatic power management with low power idle states
AMD PowerTune technology4
Intelligent TDP management technology
Dynamic clockspeed/performance enhancement for games
AMD ZeroCore Power technology4
Ultra-low idle power when the connected display is in power saving mode
Efficient low power mode for desktop work
Secondary GPUs in an AMD CrossFire™ technology configuration power down when unneeded
AMD Catalyst™ graphics and HD video configuration software
Software support for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP
AMD Catalyst™ Control Center - AMD Catalyst™ software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing features of AMD Radeon products.
Unified Graphics display driver - AMD Catalyst™ software enabling other PC programs and devices to use advanced graphics, video, and features of AMD Radeon™ products.

 

[spyrizzle]

It is cheap(ish) and has a pretty decent "umph" the 2 gigs of gddr5 is nice. and the shaders and cores is pretty impressive.

If I did not work at pizza hut -.- I would crossfire those babies

 

[nikpadnik]

It is cheap(ish) and has a pretty decent "umph" the 2 gigs of gddr5 is nice. and the shaders and cores is pretty impressive.

If I did not work at pizza hut -.- I would crossfire those babies

i also saw tat stats but din kno wich to choose so only came to toms to clear me out.,

anyways thnx a lot guys.., spyrizzle And iblowuup