HDD and Graphics Cards

[Gwadien]

Right, I don't have a clue about HDD's and Graphics Cards, all I know is that they lose their price like a car, it's brand new, you put it in your PC, and you may aswell paid £100 less.

So here's my request.

I need a new HDD & Graphics card for my PC since they're a bit out-dated and the next 'generation' of games, I doubt I will be able to run (I just manage to run BF3) (Got a Nvidia GTX 9800)

So, I would like a good graphics card, but not a 'hotly released super duper one' which is a minor step up from the one before it, but charges an extra shit loads of money.

Same deal for a HDD, although I asked one for X-mas, I'm not sure if I'll get one (Don't think they have a clue)

Cheers!

 

[Aada]

Whats your processor? you don't want that bottle necking any new card you get.

GTX9800 is pretty darn old so am assuming your processor is old as well.

 

[Gwadien]

AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-core Processor 2.5GHZ

 

[Aada]

I had the 9650 phenom, threw in a 550ti and to be honest the new card didn't really give me that much of an increase in performance in games as my processor seemed to be the bottleneck in my system and holding it back.

I guess you could look at the GTX400-500 series for a cheap card but in the long run you will need to upgrade at some point.

 

[Access Denied]

Why don't you just eat the cost and upgrade completely? Get a decent MB with an i5 or i7 Processor.

 

[Gwadien]

Was looking at;

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=1914&subid=2379

Would I defo need a processor update for that or?

 

[Aada]

You would need a new processor without a doubt.

 

[caLLous]

So what's the budget then?

 

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I bought this, with a 660GTX for all in all around £600 about 3 months back. Baring in mind I already had a PSU and Case. Oh and the card was around £200 of that

1 GeForce GTX 660 OC - 2 GB GDDR5 - PCI-Express 3.0 (GV-N660OC-2GD)

1 Core i5 Ivy Bridge 3570K - 3,4 GHz - Cache L3 6 Mb - Socket LGA 1155 (BX80637I53570K)​

1 Vengeance PC hukommelse 4 x 4 GB - DDR3 1866 - PC3-15000 - CL9 (CMZ16GX3M4X1866C9R)​

1 GA-Z77-D3H - Socket 1155 - Chipset Z77 - ATX​

1 SSD interne Force Series GT - 120 GB SATA 6.0 Gb/s​

 

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I should add I was tempted to just buy a new gfx card for my old system, but was reconmended against it as GW2 is made to optimise CPU cores (not my words). Its why I bought all the parts but the gfx card at first and tried with my 8800gts and the improvement performance was huge, well on medium graphics. After a few weeks I upgraded to 660gtx, and even tho I can play on higher settings I dont run max as the fps drops in areas and I'd rather have constant smooth fps.

 

[Tuthmes]

BitFenix Prodigy Black
Asus P8H77-I
Kingston HyperX Blu 16 GB, PC3-12800, 1600 MHz, 10, Non-ECC, Kit Of 2
Samsung 830 Series 128 GB
Intel Core I3 2130 3.40 GHz, Boxed
EVGA GeForce GTX 650 1024 MB
Lite-On IHOS104-06 4 X, SATA

For about €600,-

+ 2x2TB, 1TB, 250GB HD's inside aswell. Solid rig, no sound what so ever. Low on power usage aswell.

Should make pictures but i'm too lazy. Like I said in another thread, the case and motherboard are just awesome. If at some point in the future it should get slow I'll just upgrade the CPU and/or Gfx. If you want to use 5 3.5 inch you should have a look at the size of your gfx card. But you could use 2 and have atleast room for 3 more 2.5 inch and a full size gfx card.