£250 Budget Upgrade

Discussion in 'New Build / Upgrade Advice' started by Masterplast, Jun 11, 2012.

  1. Masterplast

    Masterplast Geek Trainee

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    What I already have
    XFX HD 6870 DD cooling 1Gb AMD VGA Card Eyefinity Ready
    Coolermaster Elite 330
    Silver stone Tech. Strider 500W Power Supply
    Maxtor DiamondMax 21 250GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0GB/s 3.5"
    Samsung TS-H653F 22x DL Sata Drive

    Other parts
    Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H, Intel Z77, S 1155, DDR3, SATA III - 6Gb/s, SATA RAID, PCIe 3.0 (x16), D-Sub/ DVI-D/ HDMI, ATX
    Intel CPU Core i5 3570K Quad Core IvyBridge Processor Retail
    Corsair Memory Vengeance Black 4GB DDR3 1600 MHz

    My Budget is £250 but I'm already pushing it at £295
    Can my current PSU handle it, want to make sure before I put my order through
    If anyone can find cheaper parts that have a bit less performance I'll take it www.scan.co.ukonly thanks
     
  2. John S

    John S Geek Trainee

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    i think it will work but if you force your computer too much in terms of GPU power it might not be effective. let me put this in prespective for you.

    a gpu is probably the most energy consuming part in the pc build. but its not always using those 500w, at idle i would say its using probably 100w / 70w depends im not sure tho.

    my point is dont force the components to go FULL on 100% usage.

    but you will be ok mate.
     

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