Hello all. Four+ years ago, I custom built a gaming rig, and for reasons that are not worth going into, it ended up packed in a garage for the last few years. I am bringing it out of mothballs, and trying to decide if it needs to be upgraded. It will primarily be for gaming. I don't typically play FPS games; instead I am more into the Dragon Age/Mass Effect genres. Thus, I need a rig that will play games with decent graphics, but I don't need the absolute top-of-the-line specs. When I last used this computer, it utilized an Eyefinity setup, and I may want to do that again. I have relatively limited funds these days (8-month old son, dontcha know), so I don't want to pour money into this project for little or no gain. Here are the specs... Full-Sized gaming case with liquid cooling AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad-Core CPU (3.8 Ghz. I believe I overclocked it to about 4.0) 8 GB DDR3-1600 RAM A-DATA Gaming Series Dual ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB Video Cards Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5 AMD Windows 7 Pro 800 watt power supply Any advice would be warmly appreciated! --David
Power supply manufacturer and model? Video card upgrade would be good choice if PSU is OK. Radeon R9 280 offers best bang for buck.
