Right, I built the rig that is in my signature getting on nearly 3 years ago and to be honest it has done pretty well up to now.
Starting to show its age in a lot of the newer games though so I think a new GFX card to start with then maybe look at moving on the CPU/Mobo/RAM etc. to an i7 rig or similar.
At the moment I'm mostly playing BF2:BC and have a 24" monitor so I need to know it can handle running stuff at 1920x1200.
Thinking about a 5870, probably one of the 2Gb versions, but just wanted some input from people on here. My last couple of builds have been nVidia cards but I'm not that bothered really, just want something fast and that will last a couple of years.
Have a budget of around £1k over the summer to spend on upgrades, and I think the GFX should be done first. I'm thinking around £300-400 on the GFX card and then that leaves around £600 for the rest of it.
PSU is a 650w Corsair one so hopefully that will be up to the job too.
Starting to show its age in a lot of the newer games though so I think a new GFX card to start with then maybe look at moving on the CPU/Mobo/RAM etc. to an i7 rig or similar.
At the moment I'm mostly playing BF2:BC and have a 24" monitor so I need to know it can handle running stuff at 1920x1200.
Thinking about a 5870, probably one of the 2Gb versions, but just wanted some input from people on here. My last couple of builds have been nVidia cards but I'm not that bothered really, just want something fast and that will last a couple of years.
Have a budget of around £1k over the summer to spend on upgrades, and I think the GFX should be done first. I'm thinking around £300-400 on the GFX card and then that leaves around £600 for the rest of it.
PSU is a 650w Corsair one so hopefully that will be up to the job too.