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DanielWard

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Morning all

Looking to upgrade my current gaming PC one piece at a time. Not looking for anything high end / too expensive. Don't run any demanding games, but at the moment I cant even run something like Rocket League on high without FPS issues. My feeling is the GPU is the bottleneck at the moment and should be upgraded first?

Intel i5 2320 @ 3GHz
8GB DDR3 RAM @ 665MHz
Radeon HD7750 2GB
Corsair 450W PSU
Average Motherboard - will post specs once home


Thanks,
 
DanielWard said:
Morning all

Looking to upgrade my current gaming PC one piece at a time. Not looking for anything high end / too expensive. Don't run any demanding games, but at the moment I cant even run something like Rocket League on high without FPS issues. My feeling is the GPU is the bottleneck at the moment and should be upgraded first?

Intel i5 2320 @ 3GHz
8GB DDR3 RAM @ 665MHz
Radeon HD7750 2GB
Corsair 450W PSU
Average Motherboard - will post specs once home


Thanks,
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hmm your cpu is still fairly decent so i wouldn't upgrade that just yet.
Your ram is @665mhz is that set in the bios or is the sticks @665mhz or is that the max mhz the board can take? if its the last 2 i mentioned you will either need to upgrade your ram or your mobo. You can do with a new card however we would need a budget to see what you can afford. and id definitely get a higher psu at least 650w
 
DanielWard said:
Morning all

Looking to upgrade my current gaming PC one piece at a time. Not looking for anything high end / too expensive. Don't run any demanding games, but at the moment I cant even run something like Rocket League on high without FPS issues. My feeling is the GPU is the bottleneck at the moment and should be upgraded first?

Intel i5 2320 @ 3GHz
8GB DDR3 RAM @ 665MHz
Radeon HD7750 2GB
Corsair 450W PSU
Average Motherboard - will post specs once home


Thanks,
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Yeah your CPU is still fine for almost anything. Anything from the 260x upwards will give you a massive boost.

I'd recommend this:
http://www.rebeltech.co.za/r7-serie...50x-gv-r725xoc-2gi-oc-edition-2gb-128bit.html

or

http://www.wootware.co.za/asus-r736...ics-card.html#product_tabs_description_tabbed

Anything bigger will probably mean you need a bigger power supply.
 
adam_g said:
hmm your cpu is still fairly decent so i wouldn't upgrade that just yet.
Your ram is @665mhz is that set in the bios or is the sticks @665mhz or is that the max mhz the board can take? if its the last 2 i mentioned you will either need to upgrade your ram or your mobo. You can do with a new card however we would need a budget to see what you can afford. and id definitely get a higher psu at least 650w
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It's obvious he is running 1333mhz RAM which is still fine.

And he only needs a new PSU if he goes really big.
 
GPU first, I recommend second hand if you need to save.

The rest of your PC is still great
 
adam_g said:
Well then it needs to be changed in to bios or the mobo needs upgrading...
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Sigh.

You know it's called DDR because it stands for Double Data Rate right?

The speed in the bios is usually reported as the base rate before it's doubled...
 
Your GPU is definitely a bottleneck. since your gaming requirements aren't that high and you don't want to spend too much cash on an upgrade i'm inclined to recommend an upgrade to a second hand Radeon HD7970 for around R2k. only issue with that is that i'm not entirely sure that your power supply would be able to provide it with sufficient power. The alternative would be to pick up a GTX950 for about R3k but it would perform slightly 'worse' than a 7970
 
As others have said, the gpu is your weakpoint. I would look at a gtx960 (or higher) depending on how much you want to spend. A ssd is a nice quality of life improvement too if you don't already have one.
 
DanielWard said:
Morning all

Looking to upgrade my current gaming PC one piece at a time. Not looking for anything high end / too expensive. Don't run any demanding games, but at the moment I cant even run something like Rocket League on high without FPS issues. My feeling is the GPU is the bottleneck at the moment and should be upgraded first?

Intel i5 2320 @ 3GHz
8GB DDR3 RAM @ 665MHz
Radeon HD7750 2GB
Corsair 450W PSU
Average Motherboard - will post specs once home


Thanks,
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Op, I have a GTX 460 for sale, that should run RL on max.
 
Rickster said:
Op, I have a GTX 460 for sale, that should run RL on max.
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That's not much of an upgrade.

@OP what's your budget for the upgrade?
Getting a R9 380 would be a good upgrade path to go, should last you a couple of years.
 
Thanks all.

Friend of mine will sell me his Nvidia GTX 275 for cheap. I think that card is slightly better than the one I have, not sure how it compares to the suggested cards as it is quite old.

Probably looking at a budget of around R2k for now, not much but going one part at a time.
 
DanielWard said:
Thanks all.

Friend of mine will sell me his Nvidia GTX 275 for cheap. I think that card is slightly better than the one I have, not sure how it compares to the suggested cards as it is quite old.

Probably looking at a budget of around R2k for now, not much but going one part at a time.
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You'll be wasting your money with the gtx 275. The performance increase will be minimal.

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-HD-7750-vs-GeForce-GTX-275

Edit: Use gpuboss to compare new cards with your current one. They have lots of adds but if you scroll to near the bottom after comparing you will see the results.
 
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ODTech said:
You'll be wasting your money with the gtx 275. The performance increase will be minimal.

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-HD-7750-vs-GeForce-GTX-275

Edit: Use gpuboss to compare new cards with your current one. They have lots of adds but if you scroll to near the bottom after comparing you will see the results.
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Alright, will keep looking.

I can get a 2nd hand Nvidia 560 Ti - though looking at GPU boss it doesn't say that it's much better than mine, I thought the 560 would be much better.
 
DanielWard said:
Thanks all.

Friend of mine will sell me his Nvidia GTX 275 for cheap. I think that card is slightly better than the one I have, not sure how it compares to the suggested cards as it is quite old.

Probably looking at a budget of around R2k for now, not much but going one part at a time.
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No it's not:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

GTX 275 is actually worse than your card as it uses more power.

This is probably the best you'll get for your budget:
http://www.rebeltech.co.za/r7-serie...xoc-2gd-oc-edition-2gb-128bit-ddr5-core-.html
 
You can probably sell your card and get your budget up to the R3000 mark, which gets you a 2nd hand R9 280X or GTX 960.
 
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 560TI DirectCUII

Thats the card i'm looking at getting 2nd hand to be exact.
 
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