Upgrade advice

[thehungryharry]

I currently have a GTX 760 2gb, Fx 4350, 500w psu and 8gbs of ram. I have £300 from my birthday and was wondering what i should buy to be able to run games such as arma or newer released games on higher settings than I can now. Please leave suggestions on what i should buy in order to get the maximum performance possible.

[aLemonNation]

If you really want to upgrade, you can always upgrade your CPU or your graphics card. You can spend all of your money on a new gpu like the GTX 970, but your processor can bottleneck your performance.

[thehungryharry]

Ok I don't think my psu would have enough power for 970 and the bottleneck would be quite bad any other suggestions?

[beach_boy98]

I currently have a GTX 760 2gb, Fx 4350, 500w psu and 8gbs of ram. I have £300 from my birthday and was wondering what i should buy to be able to run games such as arma or newer released games on higher settings than I can now. Please leave suggestions on what i should buy in order to get the maximum performance possible.

Is a good psu or a Chinese gray thing.

[thehungryharry]

Cooler master

[DarkBlade2117]

Ok I don't think my psu would have enough power for 970 and the bottleneck would be quite bad any other suggestions?

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/TMkDkL The 760 should be good for 1080p mid range gaming. So upgrade that to a 970 later down the road.

[thehungryharry]

Ok what if I bought another GTX 760 and sli?

[Tedster]

Ok what if I bought another GTX 760 and sli?

Then you'd definitely need to upgrade PSUs.

And you'd need a compatible motherboard.

[Dzzope]

Cooler master

Cooler master can be good and dodgy.. really depends on the model. But any half decent 400W (or even less) can handle a 970.

 

Consider selling your whole rig for about £300 + and I'll spec you a new one that will knock it's socks off for £600+.

 

Here is one I threw together the other day... Add another £60~ for a HDD..

 

Can go cheaper for a 960 if budget is tight..

Ideally there would be a HDD and a slightly more powerful PSU if you ever want to go SLI.. As said, things can be changed buit this is your best option *IF* you can get another £350 by selling your current rig

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£89.90 @ CCL Computers) 

Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£89.99 @ Novatech) 

Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£44.43 @ Ebuyer) 

Storage: OCZ ARC 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£68.98 @ Amazon UK) 

Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card  (£258.98 @ Amazon UK) 

Case: Fractal Design Define S ATX Mid Tower Case  (£57.65 @ More Computers) 

Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£37.20 @ More Computers) 

Total: £647.13

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-07 15:52 BST+0100

[thehungryharry]

Ok what would the specs be?

[thehungryharry]

Looks decent what would this be playing games on? Like high? And what fps in something like arma?

[Dzzope]

You'd need to look up specific benches for an i3 and 970 But it'll kill your current rig with a new gpu or cpu or mid range both upgraded.

 

As for cooling, the case is great and all the components are very efficient so cooling isn't a problem.

 

A build like this I would say will last about 3 years before you'll need a refresh (Depending on you own usage and needs) but then it's a drop in upgrade for GPU and CPU and ram if needed.. you'll also be able to use i5/i7 unlocked processors which stomp all over anything but the highest clocked, water-cooled AMD (without overclocking them)

 

For reference.. (note that this is a slower and older i3.. you'll get better than this) That said.. it looks like Arma doesn't really favour 1 camp over the other but many other games would benefit.. Take this as you will and decide for yourself.

 

[thehungryharry]

If I was to upgrade the parts in my pc now to save a lot of money could I not just get a GTX 970

Fx 8350 (I have a asus motherboard)

Water cooler

Just a thought

[Fgtfv567]

Ok I don't think my psu would have enough power for 970 and the bottleneck would be quite bad any other suggestions?

A 500W PSU is enough for one 970. I recommend getting a 8370 with your mobo instead of the 970 right now, because I suspect the 4300 may be holding back the 760