Upgrade path?

[Nathlm]

So I have ~£200 to upgrade my pc, however I want your advice on what I should spend it on (please note that it will be more than £200 due to selling parts that I upgrade)

My rig in my sig is the one I'm reffering to.

Edit: I know that I'm almost definately going to need a RAM upgrade

Also the computer is used for gaming and not much else apart from browsing

 

[Grizzly]

If you're still running your cooler fans @ 2000rpm as it says on your profile they must be loud.

I'd recommend a new cooler or new fans for your cooler.

Otherwise I don't think there is anything that looks in dire need of an upgrade.

4GB of RAM is fine but with 8GB being so cheap you may as well.

Never heard good things of OCZ PSUs but if it's not giving you any trouble, no need to change it.

I'd keep the £200 to put towards building a new PC when the time comes.

Unless there's something you feel you need to change.

 

[AverageNinja]

If you're still running your cooler fans @ 2000rpm as it says on your profile they must be loud.

I'd recommend a new cooler or new fans for your cooler.

Otherwise I don't think there is anything that looks in dire need of an upgrade.

4GB of RAM is fine but with 8GB being so cheap you may as well.

Never heard good things of OCZ PSUs but if it's not giving you any trouble, no need to change it.

I'd keep the £200 to put towards building a new PC when the time comes.

Unless there's something you feel you need to change.

+1

 

[seumasbeathan]

+1

+2

 

[Nathlm]

If you're still running your cooler fans @ 2000rpm as it says on your profile they must be loud.

I'd recommend a new cooler or new fans for your cooler.

Well the fans are either suprisingly quiet or my harware monitor is picking their current speed up wrong (it's set to smart fan speed) but when I checked temps they were the same at full speed and at smart fan speed with a huge noise reduction, so it's fine

The 8gb will be coming for BF3 mp because it's getting very close to maxing 4gb

Cheers for the advice, I was only considering an upgrade because BF3 started to get close to maxing my cpu in multiplayer with the gpu was sometimes at 96%

 

[seumasbeathan]

Well the fans are either suprisingly quiet or my harware monitor is picking their current speed up wrong (it's set to smart fan speed) but when I checked temps they were the same at full speed and at smart fan speed with a huge noise reduction, so it's fine

The 8gb will be coming for BF3 mp because it's getting very close to maxing 4gb

Cheers for the advice, I was only considering an upgrade because BF3 started to get close to maxing my cpu in multiplayer with the gpu was sometimes at 96%

There is nothing wrong with that

 

[Nathlm]

There is nothing wrong with that

Yeah I thought there was maybe a cpu or ram bottleneck but I looked around and found out there wasn't, so good times

 

[Liarma]

What GPU are you using? your sig doesn't specify...?

 

[seumasbeathan]

What GPU are you using? your sig doesn't specify...?

He has a 7950