My next upgrade

[garbeth]

Hello everyone,

 

I´m going to upgrade my system, I thought on upgrading my mobo for an MSI dragon Z77-GD65 gaming edition and getting a samsung 840 256 SSD. what do you guys think about that upgrade, i leave a list of my specs so you can tell me if i should upgrade something diferent, my budget is 250 pounds.

 

Mobo: Asus p8p67

CPU: i5 2500k

RAM: Gskill 1600Mhz 8Gb

GPU: GTX 560 TI OC 1Gb

HDD: 1Tb seagate

 

[XiaoPigs]

Are you happy with the performance you're getting from your 2500k? If so I suggest you maybe wait until Maxwell because Sandy Bridge processors are still great for gaming and Haswell will most likely provide a 5 - 10 % increase in performance over Ivy Bridge which is only about 10% faster then the Sandy Bridge processors which overclock like the bees knees.

 

As for the SSD yea sure. SSDs are always a welcome addition to any build that doesn't have one, So go for the SSD. Might I suggest something like a 128/256GB Samsung 840 Pro?

[Adamz946]

Both seem like good upgrades if you're happy with CPU performance. With that budget you can get a fairly high capacity SSD so that would be a good option.

Unless your me cos I want to upgrade my MSI Z77A-GD65 to the gaming version just for the colour :P

[garbeth]

i want to upgrade the mobo because is a cheap old one, my CPU work just perfect i have it OC to 4,6GHz so i wont change it for now. and the SSD is just to get better performance on the system.

[911^NEmeSis]

I think an SSD would be a nice addition to your rig until you perhaps choose a larger upgrade in the future.

[mgsstar]

Upgrade your motherboard and add a SSD if you are satisfied with your GPU performance right now. If you want to upgrade your gpu, I would get a HIS Radeon HD 7950 HIS IceQ X2.