Hi all,
I have finally given up battling to keep my old PC alive. I think it's somewhere between 8 and 10 years old. I reformatted the c: partition over the weekend and re-installed windows (xp) but I seem to have misplaced a number of driver discs and am still wallowing in a sea of updates and errors and all on a really bad display!
Cant seem to get the network card to work, so no internets. The optical drive now seems to have stopped reading discs. Generally a fail. I may have done something wrong as it was carried out with a back drop of other things striving for my attention!..
The Wife suggested I buy a new PC, which was as exciting as it was surprising!
I recently bought a new GPU, so would ideally want to avoid paying out for a new one, so have been looking at barebone bundles.
The GPU is a GTX 550 Ti, so it might be a bit crap compared to the CPU etc that I am considering.
What I wanted to know, is whether its worth getting a 'good' (for the money) processor if the GPU might hold it back...
The two specs that have caught my eye are:
AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Processor
2 x 4GB DDR3 1600Mhz Memory
Novatech Gaming Tower Case
750W Gaming PSU
AMD 990FX Chipset Motherboard
and
Intel Core I5 4670K Processor
2 x 4GB DDR3 1600Mhz Memory
Novatech Gaming Tower Case
Novatech PowerStation 500W PSU (non Modular)
(The AMD CPU is cheaper and seems to have better benchmark scores)
So, would it be worth getting something like the above, and then sticking my GTX550Ti into it?
I am right at the start of thinking about this purchase, so any other ideas welcome
