Hi, I'm looking to get some advice on upgrading my old system for under £200 if you wouldn't mind helping. I know there's lots of threads on the same subject but I'm long out of date with pc components and it would be helpful to get specific advice.
Approximate Purchase Date: 5/6/7? years ago
Budget Range: £200
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Games, everything else runs fine
Parts to Upgrade: Currently I have:
MB - Asus P6T
CPU - core i7 920 @ 3.66Ghz
GPU - Radeon HD 5870 1Gb
RAM - 6Gb DDR3 Corsair Dominator (3x2Gb @ 1600Mhz)
OS - Windows 10 64bit
Monitor - 24" 1920 x 1080
HDD - no solid state drives
Location: UK
Overclocking: Maybe
SLI or Crossfire: No
And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: Recently bought Battlefield 1, system I have now struggles to play on lowest settings.
Had a read around various forums trying to get back up to speed with what's out there and I'm currently looking at getting a Sapphire R9 290 4Gb graphics card for £100 and replacing RAM with 16Gb HyperX Black DDR3 @ 1600 Mhz for about £70. Planning on staying with the I7-920 CPU and ASUS mobo.
Does that sound like a good way of increasing playability on Battlefield 1, or would you recommend a different graphics card/ram/cpu/mobo? I'm not really looking to spend more than that for the time being, plus that's the only new game I've bought in a while.
Approximate Purchase Date: 5/6/7? years ago
Budget Range: £200
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Games, everything else runs fine
Parts to Upgrade: Currently I have:
MB - Asus P6T
CPU - core i7 920 @ 3.66Ghz
GPU - Radeon HD 5870 1Gb
RAM - 6Gb DDR3 Corsair Dominator (3x2Gb @ 1600Mhz)
OS - Windows 10 64bit
Monitor - 24" 1920 x 1080
HDD - no solid state drives
Location: UK
Overclocking: Maybe
SLI or Crossfire: No
And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: Recently bought Battlefield 1, system I have now struggles to play on lowest settings.
Had a read around various forums trying to get back up to speed with what's out there and I'm currently looking at getting a Sapphire R9 290 4Gb graphics card for £100 and replacing RAM with 16Gb HyperX Black DDR3 @ 1600 Mhz for about £70. Planning on staying with the I7-920 CPU and ASUS mobo.
Does that sound like a good way of increasing playability on Battlefield 1, or would you recommend a different graphics card/ram/cpu/mobo? I'm not really looking to spend more than that for the time being, plus that's the only new game I've bought in a while.