i cant deside what i want when it gomes to a new GPU or just a hole new PC

[thunderlord]

i thinking of buing from ibuypower. i already build this one. its 3 yrs old now. but the thing ihad is i have noway (or wat) to build a new one if i dont have to. took me 2 weeks to find guilds i needed to put this thing together and it still looks like crap (from what i see how alot of computers could look and how they have there computers (ahwww the glow..)

but i also need a new CPU its a intel i5. one of the 1s from 3 yrs ago..
wanted to up it to a i7. but this time around i want it water cooled so to speek and i know i cant do that.

but anyway im looking for options since i dont really know how good ibuypower is over all..
(idont think i will try cyber-power ever. i hear there worse)

(if at most im after the GPU since gamex are having hard time running GTA5 )

 

[MarkW]

I5's from 3 years ago are still quite good CPU's. Intel has no competition, so they have been taking it easy, and puttering along pretty slowly. Upgrading a video card is about as easy as things can get. And since you have already installed it once, then you know how to take it out now, and how to put a new one back in where the old one came out.

Now if its fancy lights and colorful cases, not to mention perfectly bundled up cables, then you might want to pay someone for that. That is not something you tend to learn when only building one system so far in your lifetime. But none of that is going to make your games play better.

You mention that you are mostly after a video card upgrade, but you never said what video card you have now. In fact, you didn't tell us anything about your system except that you had a three year old I5. So that makes it impossible for us to recommend new stuff for you since we have nothing to compare the new stuff to.

 

[nukemaster]

Heck that could be something like a 2500k(more like 3.5-4 years old) or 3570k(closer to 2.5 years old). Both i5's, but both still more than usable today.

i7's do not have as much gain in games unless they can use the extra threads. The list of games that can do this is not that large.

I look forward to seeing what you have now.