Looking for advice

[JMoff]

Hi, im in need of some advice

 

I'm looking too upgrade my graphics card in my pc that i have been putting together for a longgg time.....

I'm on a limited budget but this pc is my baby so i want too make sure my money goes to the right place and i thought this would be the best place to come for some different opinions, i have a budget of £200 and my pc is used for gaming in between work.

 

my current specs are:

-Intel i7 950 4 core processor

-Asus P6T SE mother board 

-Windows 10 pro 

-12 Gb of Ram DDR3

-Corseair 750W PSU

-500Gb SSD

-1.5TB HDD

-Gainward NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 2GB GPU

 

Any Advice would be appreciated,

Thanks 

 

[TheGlenlivet]

1080p at decent settings and FPS should be achievable with anything up to about a 1660/ti.  Over that and the CPU can't keep up.  

1050ti

1060

Rx570

Rx580

1660

 

Something like that.  

[Keezyavaleri]

It's difficult to recommend something for this build because quite frankly everything needs to upgraded. I'll try anyway, with your platform and gpu completely obsolete, the only things that make sense to upgrade without wasting money is your storage, PSU(technically you dont need to), and something that I dont see listed is your peripherals. So if you know that your next build is gonna be a "high refresh rate" you should invest into a good 144hz -240hz monitor for starters and work your way to a good keyboard and mouse if not already. Ps. start saving more money toward a Ryzen build.

[Jordan_C21]

29 minutes ago, TheGlenlivet said:

1080p at decent settings and FPS should be achievable with anything up to about a 1660/ti.  Over that and the CPU can't keep up.  

1050ti

1060

Rx570

Rx580

1660

 

Something like that.  

or,  second hand rx 480 ?

[Zando_]

31 minutes ago, TheGlenlivet said:

1080p at decent settings and FPS should be achievable with anything up to about a 1660/ti.  Over that and the CPU can't keep up.  

1050ti

1060

Rx570

Rx580

1660

 

Something like that.  

Eh..... kinda. The i7 950 is solidly unimpressive, had to do a lot of mucking around to get a kinda solid 60fps at 1080p in D2 with mine and a 1050 Ti. It's got a really low stock clock and solidly meh OC performance. 

 

OP, if your board supports Westmere-EP CPUs, you could throw an extra $14 or so at an X5670 and OC that to 4.2GHz or so, you'll be a bit below R5 1600 performance there and it'll run a lot better with various GPUs. I did get a case of the bottlenecks with mine at 4.5Ghz when I paired it with a 1080 Ti, but that's a slightly overkill GPU for a CPU that age. 

[JMoff]

Fair enough, I’ve pushed the boat out and put in an order for an upgrade with an amd ryzen 3 3200g and a rx 580 GPU