What would you upgrade ? £450 to spend

[paulstung]

|I guys , as above really I have come into a bit of money , and would like to no what you would upgrade in my rig and why . I did think of putting my cpu under water , but that would be a big chunk of the money , just for an extra few degrees . In my mind i can buy all the componants for a loop bit by bit , but 1 larger buy makes more sense to me . I don't come into large ish amounts very often , so that seems sensible .

My original thought was a gpu , 7950/70 or even 670/80 . The gpu seems to be the weakest part of my build so that too seems the best idea . But thats why I'm here .
What would you do...?

 

[SeekaX]

tbh i'd keep it like that until 2014 and then look into the next generation of GPUs. or get a haswell CPU, but that means new mobo as well.

 

[alpenwasser]

Personally, I view watercooling not necessarily as a way to significantly better temps, but much more as a way to achieve slightly better temps with massively reduced noise (at least on the CPU side of things), maybe with a slightly more powerful overclock. With GPU's you do indeed get much better temps (usually).

Plus I just like to tinker with it.

To be honest, the specs of your rig look pretty good to me. I agree with SeekaX on that one and recommend waiting for the next generation of things. Unless you really have a specific area where you actually need more performance right now, I'd leave the hardware like that for now.

You could go for watercooling if that's worth it to you, but I wouldn't change the hardware at this point.

 

[tinytomlogan]

If you have to spend that money and you are a gamer Id be looking at getting a GPU like the 7970 or 680

 

[paulstung]

Cheers guys . Like mentioned on an earlier post , I am happy with the rig on all fronts really . My temps are awesome with the Silver arrow sb-e , With not being a massive over clocker ,water cooling is more for the looks than anything else .
The problem is having money now , to spend ,I don't come into lump sums very often plus , as most people it burns a hole in my pocket very fast . Better off putting it to good use , rather than trying to save and build it up and find in a few weeks it has been spent on junk .
I'm using a 32" led tv for gaming , one thought is to buy a monitor , possibly the new 29" ultra wide LG, or even 3 for eyefinity . I think I will research more into all ideas and make a decision over the week end.

 

[Blade of Grass]

I don't get why you have to spend the money. Save it, and keep saving until haswell, 8xxx and 7xx GPUs come out, then build a new system with the saved cash. You current system is well spec-ed and if your happy with it I don't see a reason other than to just spend money.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Waste of time buying a bigger or even multiple monitors when you dont have a GPU or the money to make the FPS worth it.....

 

[alpenwasser]

^^^^^This. If you go for high-res monitors or a multi monitor setup, you need the corresponding GPU power. Expensive.

As Blade of Grass mentioned, save the money for the next generation (unless you want to go for watercooling now, but as you said, it's not really necessary given you get good temps).

If you're really worried about your spending discipline, lock the money away in a box or give it to a trustworthy third party for safekeeping or something else I haven't thought of. But I'm pretty sure you can manage to preserve those funds somehow.

Patience is a virtue, after all

 

[nex-s]

I don't get why you have to spend the money. Save it, and keep saving until haswell, 8xxx and 7xx GPUs come out, then build a new system with the saved cash. You current system is well spec-ed and if your happy with it I don't see a reason other than to just spend money.

+1 on this and what Tom said. No point in getting more/bigger screen if you can't run it properly with that GPU. At the same time, if you're happy right now, why get something that will be replaced quite soon? Save the money, put it in a savings account so you don't have to look at it all the time. I too don't get why would you just spend it on junk?

 

[s3ns3]

gpu ,what else?