
Originally Posted by
Jimbobgod1969
My current gaming PC is a few years old now, with the following spec:
E8400 Core2Duo processor @ 3.6Ghz
4Gb DDR2 800 RAM
Sapphire 1Gb AMD HD 5850
80GB SSD
1TB HDD
I've got about £200 for an upgrade, and play mostly FPS games at 1080p res. My questions are:
1) Which graphics card should I upgrade to next, so as to gain an appreciable improvement in performance?
2) At what point will my processor become the 'bottleneck' for performance? So,
3) When should I upgrade the processor, & to which one (again, to achieve a noticeable performance improvement?). Bear in mind that this would involve a motherboard, CPU & RAM upgrade. My preference is generally for Intel CPUs.
Many thanks for your advice!