Upgrade proposal....

[benjaminosauras]

Hey guys,

I'm looking to upgrade my PC as it's that time of year....

Currently on a E8400 on standard clock speed, I do have an aftermarket cooler spare. But I'm not overly comfortable with safely overclocking, or how to go about it.

I'm running a HD5700 which I only picked up earlier this year.

Just want to know your guys/gals thoughts on where to go from here. Mainly looking at Skyrim as my marker...

Any help would be great.

x

 

[l0ckd0wn]

For skyrim or any of the newer games out or coming out, video card is probably the biggest component to offer performance increases.

I, personally, gave up on ATI a while ago and only buy their products when putting them into an AMD box (since the companies are now 1 and the same). Nvidia is my go-to for vid cards, but from the looks of the card you bought, you are probably already in good shape.

I know BF3s baseline component recommendations start at the Geforce 560 GTX, which is actually at a decent price point being right around $200 US.

Other than that you haven't listed MOBO, memory or HDD setup. You could also gain some decrease in loading time if you were to upgrade to a SSD, or if your mobo supports SSD caching you could just add the drive to your setup to increase performance.

Without more info it's hard to gauge what else you could do.

 

[benjaminosauras]

Thanks for the reply.

I've got a ASUS P5Q Pro. 750GB Samsung F1 Spinpoint and 6 GB DDR2 (can't remember what model exactly, it's not budget though).

Do you think I should go down the Nvidia route? Or go for the Mobo/CPU/RAM combo.

I don't really want to shell out for a full system just before christmas, just want to update here and there.