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Hello, 

 

Before we begin my rig is - 

 

AMD FX 8350 Overclocked to 4.5 GHZ

Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0

Corsair 16 GB Dual Channel 1720 MHZ Overclock

Gigabyte HD 7850 1 GHZ Overclock 1325 MHZ Memory Overclock

Sapphire HD 7850 1 GHZ Overclock 1325 MHZ Memory Overclock

Cooler Master HAF XM

Corsair H100i

Asus VG248QE 1080p 144hz (I cried as I cant run any games with my setup above 70 FPS..)

Corsair AX1200i

Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB SSD (New Additon)

Windows 10

 

So, my question is what should I try to upgrade. (No Nvidia/Intel, I will admit I am a AMD Fanboy)

The upgrades I have considered are - 

A bigger case (Cant reach anything on the top of my mobo with the H100i)

3 way RAID 0 HDD, which drives should I use

A better GPU (R9 390x when it comes out)

 

So any other sugesstions for finally trying to overcome the sorrow I felt when I bought the 144 hz monitor.....

 

P.S. I am new to the forum so HI!

Lets all ripperoni in pepperoni

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My suggestion is upgrade the case, the define r5 looks good but i dont have any experiance with cases that are newer than 6 years old

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I'd upgrade the two 7850s. Do you have a budget on how much you're willing to upgrade the PC? Regardless I'd go for one or two R9 290s.

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Well, My budget is about $400

This MSI 4 GB R9 290 is about 300 dollars http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127774&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC-_-pla-_-Desktop+Graphics+Cards-_-N82E16814127774&gclid=CjwKEAiAtNujBRDMmoCN46aB8noSJAC7SYv7SOlvZ_EFCP0NPa2-mGgfSU_ALbhLMac-1sXlVVyFtxoCyWbw_wcB

and I just noticed you don't have a HDD, so you could use the rest of your 100 bucks on a HDD or two, possibly run them in raid 0

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