What kind of general rules do you use when assesing when to ugprade a PC or if it’s time to start fresh and buy all new components? My PC was fairly high end when I bought it, but now (2 years later) there are a lot of things I can’t take advantage of such as native USB3 or PCIE3. In my own situation I’m pretty sure for about 400$ I could about double the performance of my pc when it comes to gaming, but in general when would it be wiser to start fresh?
My PC specs (that are relevant for gaming) are as follows:
i7 920 2666Mhz
3 x 2gb triple channel 1333mhz ram with heatsinks
ATI 5770
Motherboard has options for adjusting clock rates etc
I’m pretty sure if I get a new heatsink, a gtx570 and a new PSU I could overclock the CPU to maybe 3.2 Ghz and get the video performance to be much better. The 570 is what would cost the most here but looks to be the card that would offer the most bang for the buck in my situation, the 5770 is decent but relatively on the lower end when it comes to video performance.
