Hi All,
I've been playing Landmark in Closed Beta (so not optimised code yet) and have been punished for it by getting a measly 3-7 FPS on my current Athlon X4 rig. As result, though I don't really need to upgrade, I've been looking at the following:
CPU - Xeon E3-1220 V3 (3.1 Ghz)
RAM - Corsair Vengeance Pro 8Gb (2x4Gb) DDR3-2133
MB - Asus Maximus VII Ranger
From the old rig I'd take the case and:
SDD - 2x Samsung 840 Pro 256Gb
PSU - CoolerMaster RS-850 850W
MON - 2x 24" LG W2442PA
I'm happy to keep my current:
GFX - Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 6850 1Gb
or replace that with
GFX - XFX Radeon R9 280 3Gb Black Edition Double Dissipation
because I'm hearing that this XFX unit is quite quiet. (excuse the multiple aweful puns) Low noise levels are important to me, which is why I significantly overspecced the PSU in the current machine so that it would never break a sweat and heat-up and need to run the fan at maximum. However, with newer and more taxing games I'm finding that the 6850 gets quite loud...
My general use is as a 'workstation'. I do a lot of Virtual World stuff with OpenSim, some 2D vector design stuff, some PHP coding and some photography - colour correction and cropping. In other words the Athlon X4 is fine, but upgrades are always fun!
Budget is around the £500 mark. Im not looking for future-proofing, rather for a significant speed bump over the current rig.
Your thoughts please