Time for an upgrade?

[BetrayedOf52]

Budget - 300$ I'm not sure what to upgrade or add. any suggestions?


CPU - Intel® Core™ i5-4670K Processor - Corsair H55 Liquid Cooling -
Ram - 8 gigs corsair vengeance
GPU - Radeon 7770 x 2 crossfired
MOBO - Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3
Power supply 850 Watt - AZZA Dynamo
1 TB HARD DRIVE


I'm guessing an SSD? but I really don't want to lose everything on my current hardrive to reformat windows 7 onto the SSD instead of my 1 TB. the whole point of getting an SSD would be for WOW and Windows 7 to be on it. I don't know if I want to clear my TB just yet for that upgrade

Maybe a GPU also.. not sure what to pickup that will be noticeable.


Also anyone know how long my MB and CPU will be decent for? Are they still pretty solid?

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Hey, tbh id buy a single video card, crossfire is not always good( can cause heat issues, draws more power and not many games benefit from it) and 7770 aint a powerfull card. with 300$ you can get something like a r9 290/280x or gtx 770 from nvidia (or if you can add like 50$ u can get the new gtx 970, great card for the money) all cards are way better than your crossfire. SSD is a nice thing to have for OS and games, they will load rly fast, everything that will be on the ssd will load extremly fast, i recommend the samsung 840 evo 120gb, smooth, great speed and great quality build, you could probly wait for blackfriday and buy something like a 280x + a ssd with 300$, rest of your setup looks solid, the cpu will last you for a while, no worries theres

[BetrayedOf52]

Hey, tbh id buy a single video card, crossfire is not always good( can cause heat issues, draws more power and not many games benefit from it) and 7770 aint a powerfull card. with 300$ you can get something like a r9 290/280x or gtx 770 from nvidia (or if you can add like 50$ u can get the new gtx 970, great card for the money) all cards are way better than your crossfire. SSD is a nice thing to have for OS and games, they will load rly fast, everything that will be on the ssd will load extremly fast, i recommend the samsung 840 evo 120gb, smooth, great speed and great quality build, you could probly wait for blackfriday and buy something like a 280x + a ssd with 300$, rest of your setup looks solid, the cpu will last you for a while, no worries theres

What brand of 280x is best in your opinion. I really like the look of http://www.ncix.com/detail/xfx-radeo...iateid=7474144
But is cooling that different on different cards? Thinking of http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16814150697 instead actually.

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The 290 is a rly good card, but i cant help you with XFX, i never had any products from them, i usually look for MSI or ASUS, but lately i worked with MSI more(got a r9 270x and a r9 280 from them, both good gards, cool enough and rly silent) + their support is rly good, the best 280x might be the sapphire tri x, atleast it has rly good cooling, but its a rly long card. maybe someone else can give you some info on XFX, or you can always search for some reviews, one you can find here http://www.legitreviews.com/xfx-rade...-review_138612

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edit: but if you plan to spend more than 350$ you should look at the GTX 970, its a rly good card, better than 290, maybe even better than 290x in some games + its a newer card with some new tech/soft updates, one of them being directx 12.0, also it draws way less power than r9 290/290x