Advice needed for gaming

[newtogaming]

hey guys im new to gaming world, and starving for some advice.

i bought a workstation from vadim 2yrs ago

when i bought my pc it was built on my needs and that was video editing and

pictures and normal internet usage.

today i was playing a game for first time like for 1 hr and my pc start making alot of noise. and i could feel it was getting really hot.

i dont really want to sell my pc as it does a great job on video editing and pictures. and i dont mind spending 500 pounds for upgrading few parts so i could play some games to.

my spec's

1 x Sapphire ATI Radeon HD3870XT 512MB GDDR4 HDMI/DVI

1 x Antarctic Cooling (3-5 Fans digital controlled+VGA/HD Cooling)

1 x Enermax Galaxy Modular 850W PSU

1 x Supermicro X7DWA-N Dual XEON 771 1600MHz

2 x Intel Xeon 5430 (4x2.66Ghz 1333FSB 2x6Mb) Passive

2 x Stock Heatsink with fan

2 x 2048Mb DDRII 667MHz CL5 ECC Fully Buffered (Kingston)

1 x Creative 7.1 X-FI XtremeAudio PCIe

if upgrading few parts of my pc wont help then please do tell me so i can stop wasting my time and carry on with other things.

my apologies if i posted my thread in wrong section.

thanks you.

 

[tinytomlogan]

After reading the chat box DO NOT buy the ram sammy linked, your mobo runs FB-DIMM ram so please make sure you look for this if you upgrade.

What games are you looking to play dude?

Tbh I would just chuck in a 4870X2 and be done with it as the ram will cost a small fortune. Start replacing anything else and it would be better to start thinking about a new pc.

 

[I Hunta x]

well id upgrade your graphics cards to a new 5870 for future proofing (and its the best single card atm), the cost of ecc ram realy dosent warrent upgrading to 800mhz, and if they will fit id buy 2 3rd party coolers for the cpu's.

 

[Rastalovich]

Not sure about your memory. U have 2x2g strips in there, but we need to remember that both the 771s are using them. 1 each I would think, I'm not aware that they can share the pool, but I could be wrong.

Not exactly a classic gaming setup with 2 771 cpus, but tbh it's more than enough for 1 of them to be doing the gaming (which often tends to be the case). U more-or-less have a Q9450 running at stock, in gaming terms. The other xeon would sit there counting memory pages.

Work wize it's a freakin awesome piece of kit. Similar to the Apple/HP workstations we get for editing. (all over the top for what they really do)

U have 2x(x16) PCIe 2.0 slots, and b4 settling on a card to recommend, I'd be interested in knowing what software u use for work on a regular basis, as there could be a professional slant to this that would benefit that AND gaming.

(and ofc if u bought it for working, there could be a VAT bonus to it)

It'd be nice to have more memory in there, but if u got enough for ur work, I'd not bother cos the pricing aint great. Could be £120 for another 2x2g of 667.

 

[Filekutter]

I agree with Tommy. Just put in a new vid card, and slam in some more ram and you're good to go.