Hi, I am wanting to upgrade my 3 year old rig so having started out looking at just a new graphics card it has spiralled slightly, I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place or not, but since it was a few across the board purchases this seemed the most appropriate.
My current build is below, I have then just copied across the stickied template
Screen: BenQ G2220HD 22 inches 1920x1080
Case: Coolermaster Haf 922 + Noctua NF- P12 120mm fan
CPU: I7 920 with a scythe mugen 2 cooler
Motherboard: x58 Pro-e
Ram: 3x 2gb Crucial ddr3 1333mhz
PSU: Corsair 750w TX
GPU: Saphire radeon 4650 1gb
Hard Drives: Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB, Hitachi 1tb
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium
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Approximate Purchase Date: either in the next few days or late august
Budget Range: Started out as £150 for a graphics card, then went to £250 with replacement dvdrw and headset now possibly up to £330 including ssd
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, watching movies, surfing the internet
Are you buying a monitor: NO
Parts to Upgrade: GPU, optical Drive, possibly storage drive and peripherals (headset)
Do you need to buy OS: No
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: not to bothered though atm have looked at mainly exlipse computer and overclocker.co.uk (brought my build from probably 5+ suppliers when I built it looking at consolidating between 1 or 2 tops this time)
Location:Norwich, UK
Parts Preferences: none
Overclocking: Maybe
SLI or Crossfire: No
Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080
Additional Comments: Would prefer quieter side but doesn't especially matter have a very open case atm which I don't want to replace, games I play atm are starcraft 2, Diablo 3, shogun 2 tw.
I'm thinking about upgrading to get faster and better quality gaming, im also looking at getting into Mechwarrior Online when it comes out, while i have no doubt my ATI 4650 will play it and many other games for a year or two more it wont play them particularly well.
I also want to get more into on-line gaming again so will be upgrading my internet from a very lousy 2mb to 30mb hopefully by mid august.
Ive researched a bit into graphics cards and headsets, and briefly looked at ssds and optical drives.
Graphics wise I found sub £150 to be fairly disappointing, the 560ti was the best but that was barely less than £150 and for good cards more, other than that it was all sub £100 really with the 7770 or 6xxx or the 550ti. Which is why i looked into the 7850. I am tempted to wait and see what the nvidia 660 is like and what it does to prices but I did that with my original build and waited 3 years instead of 3 months to upgrade.
Saphire 7850
xfx 7850 core
Headset wise I wanted a max of £70 but preferabbly £50 or less, research wise I found that headsets arent great untill you go to a sennheiser pc360, and you should always just buy headphones and a separate mic, however since the good microphone the modmic isnt available until late august and would take a week+ to ship to uk and will probably be around £25 -£30 I decided to disregard this excelent advise (especially as it seems that investing £200-£300 plus is failry normal with a good sound card the heaphones etc)
Focusing back in on headsets the ones that seemed to stand out are the razer chariachas, steelseries siberia v2 and corsair vengeance 1500, I read about some issues with the razers build quality and with the fact all of them but especially the razer are overpriced in uk I focussed on the latter two
Steelseries Siberia v2
Corsair Vengeance 1500
Optical drives i just put whatever was cheapest in, since I juts wanted to replace my dead drive and while bluray is nice I generally download movies and tv shows now
Samsung dvd drive
LiteOn dvd drive
So overall the totals are
Overclockers £255.36 with next day shipping.
Eclipse computers £252.49 with 3-5 day shipping
SSD wise a brief glance at the most recent best buy guide and a desire to have 90-120gb min led me to
120gb Samsung ssd 830
£85 with mounting bracket
120gb Mushkin Chronos
£83.64 with mounting bracket
So thanks for reading through this long thread, I just wanted to include as much detail as possible.
In Brief
Should I buy AMD 7850 now or wait until nvidia 660 comes out to see if it shakes up prices?
Is an ssd worth it to upgrade my build?
My current build is below, I have then just copied across the stickied template
Screen: BenQ G2220HD 22 inches 1920x1080
Case: Coolermaster Haf 922 + Noctua NF- P12 120mm fan
CPU: I7 920 with a scythe mugen 2 cooler
Motherboard: x58 Pro-e
Ram: 3x 2gb Crucial ddr3 1333mhz
PSU: Corsair 750w TX
GPU: Saphire radeon 4650 1gb
Hard Drives: Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB, Hitachi 1tb
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium
Skip to bottom for brief look
Approximate Purchase Date: either in the next few days or late august
Budget Range: Started out as £150 for a graphics card, then went to £250 with replacement dvdrw and headset now possibly up to £330 including ssd
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, watching movies, surfing the internet
Are you buying a monitor: NO
Parts to Upgrade: GPU, optical Drive, possibly storage drive and peripherals (headset)
Do you need to buy OS: No
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: not to bothered though atm have looked at mainly exlipse computer and overclocker.co.uk (brought my build from probably 5+ suppliers when I built it looking at consolidating between 1 or 2 tops this time)
Location:Norwich, UK
Parts Preferences: none
Overclocking: Maybe
SLI or Crossfire: No
Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080
Additional Comments: Would prefer quieter side but doesn't especially matter have a very open case atm which I don't want to replace, games I play atm are starcraft 2, Diablo 3, shogun 2 tw.
I'm thinking about upgrading to get faster and better quality gaming, im also looking at getting into Mechwarrior Online when it comes out, while i have no doubt my ATI 4650 will play it and many other games for a year or two more it wont play them particularly well.
I also want to get more into on-line gaming again so will be upgrading my internet from a very lousy 2mb to 30mb hopefully by mid august.
Ive researched a bit into graphics cards and headsets, and briefly looked at ssds and optical drives.
Graphics wise I found sub £150 to be fairly disappointing, the 560ti was the best but that was barely less than £150 and for good cards more, other than that it was all sub £100 really with the 7770 or 6xxx or the 550ti. Which is why i looked into the 7850. I am tempted to wait and see what the nvidia 660 is like and what it does to prices but I did that with my original build and waited 3 years instead of 3 months to upgrade.
Saphire 7850
xfx 7850 core
Headset wise I wanted a max of £70 but preferabbly £50 or less, research wise I found that headsets arent great untill you go to a sennheiser pc360, and you should always just buy headphones and a separate mic, however since the good microphone the modmic isnt available until late august and would take a week+ to ship to uk and will probably be around £25 -£30 I decided to disregard this excelent advise (especially as it seems that investing £200-£300 plus is failry normal with a good sound card the heaphones etc)
Focusing back in on headsets the ones that seemed to stand out are the razer chariachas, steelseries siberia v2 and corsair vengeance 1500, I read about some issues with the razers build quality and with the fact all of them but especially the razer are overpriced in uk I focussed on the latter two
Steelseries Siberia v2
Corsair Vengeance 1500
Optical drives i just put whatever was cheapest in, since I juts wanted to replace my dead drive and while bluray is nice I generally download movies and tv shows now
Samsung dvd drive
LiteOn dvd drive
So overall the totals are
Overclockers £255.36 with next day shipping.
Eclipse computers £252.49 with 3-5 day shipping
SSD wise a brief glance at the most recent best buy guide and a desire to have 90-120gb min led me to
120gb Samsung ssd 830
£85 with mounting bracket
120gb Mushkin Chronos
£83.64 with mounting bracket
So thanks for reading through this long thread, I just wanted to include as much detail as possible.
In Brief
Should I buy AMD 7850 now or wait until nvidia 660 comes out to see if it shakes up prices?
Is an ssd worth it to upgrade my build?
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