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Looking at GTX 960 or 950 as options. Need to dig up some more benchmarks for comparison.

So what GPU would be a decent upgrade? Thinking of a max of £150.

Just checked in with Teamviewer and the PC has a newer setup than I originally remembered: Pentium G2120 ASRock H77 Pro4-M 2 x 4GB of PC3-10700 AMD 7770 OC GPU I'm thinking a replacement CPU at a minimum and a new GPU at most is what's needed. Along with my spare 500GB SSD, that should be a...

The motherboard combo deal does look interesting. It is quite probable I can recycle my dad's existing case, PSU and DVD drive, and I have a spare 500 GB SSD I can give him as well.

Because if each reply counts towards it, it won't take too much time ;-)

How many posts do I need to the members' market?

Goal: My dad needs a new(er) computer for gaming at 1080 I was originally thinking about buying either a new Skylake or Haswell-E and giving the old rig to my dad, however a new build looks expensive for a moderate performance boost over what I have. I'm currently running a i7 2600K with a...

Blame Intel for doing this market segmentation thing with X58/P55 i3/i5/i7. They made a right dog's breakfast of it. If we have problems identifying the pros/cons, how about the unwashed masses?

What about other factors like power draw, noise and physical size of the card? I was deciding between a GTX 260 and a 4890 a few months ago and finally went for the 260 because, even though the 4890 is the same length, the power connectors are on the top (they were on the back of the 4890)...

To the guys who say they only do a bit of WoW and HD watching, isn't a 5770 overkill? Couldn't you go for the 5750 or even wait for the lower end?

In terms of PC gaming, future-proofing is nebulous at best. While DX11 will happen, will today's cards have enough grunt for DX11 games in 12 months time? Or maybe ATI will have refreshed their line-up and performance will have gone up and prices down? Yes, if I was buying a card today I...

And as there's no reviews/benchmarks on the 5850, why rush to buy it?

You're not very clear on exactly what you use your PC for. Basing today's buying decision on tomorrow's potential upgrades is a mug's game. Who knows if the processors available in 2-3 years will either fit the socket you chose, or work with the chipset or motherboard you have. Swapping...

I see 70 MB/s for sequential write on the Intel, not sequential read (250MB/s). Read Anand for all the gory, technical detail on SSDs and why, if money is no object, the Intel drives are king: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/

Only Intel knows, and they can change their mind. Take a Zen approach, who cares? I wouldn't let this stop me buying either 1366 or 1156 now if that's what fitted my requirements. I mainly game and do a bit of development, so if I was buying today, I think I'd go i5 750. Every...

I know, I went for the shock title, but hey it worked! ;) Interesting quote from Tom's Hardware: "You can expect this processor interface (1156) to remain pervasive until the end of 2011, when LGA 1155 (planned launch in the first half of 2011) starts grabbing market share big time."...

How long are the 58XX series and where's the power connection? I had one of those "oh shi*" moments when installing my GTX 260 as it didn't look like it would fit. It did fit in the end, but only just and it's a good job the power connector was on top of the card. I'll wait and see how the...

I'm quite looking forward to cheaply-priced quads - a nice upgrade from a E7400.

ATI and Nvidia are ultra-conservative when it comes to minimum power recommendations. I don't see any problem using a 4670 with your setup. If you have a heavily overclocked quad and you're running 4 hard drives then maybe you need more PSU. If you are running the CPU at stock and you have 1...

This appears to have been officialy announced: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=613