Need Idea's about possible upgrades

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Roush

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Hello,

So for the Christimas Break I'll be recieving about, give or take, 500-700$ in money i can spend on a some computer parts. (only willing to spend about 400$ however).

First, the specs

Case: Full Tower Cooler Master Haf X 992 Series
CPU: AMD FX6100 6-Core Processor 3.3ghz
MoBo: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3+
RAM:CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
OS: Windows 7-64 Bit
Card: HIS 6850 IceQ Turbo
Harddrive: 320gb Western Digital 7200rpm
Monitor: SAMSUNG S23A300B High Glossy Black 23" 5ms Full HD LED BackLight LCD Monitor 250 cd/m2 DCR 1,000,000:1 (1,000:1)
PSU: Cougar 700w Crossfire Certified
Optical Bay: Basic 2 Sony Drive bays (nothing fancy).

2nd:

Since im only looking to spend 400$, just need 1-2 suggestions.

I have a 32' Samsung TV, that i would like to play PC games on sometimes, and was wondering if i should maybe get another graphic's card and crossfire so it wont crash while trying to play on it.

Since i dont know much about the next few things, looking for advice if i should look more into it, and consider buying it.

SSD's are an option
Bluy Ray Drives are also an option
more than 1 hard drive?
More RAM worth buying?

Most importantly, i was looking for Cpu coolers and can't seem to find one compatable for AM3+ chipsets.

Any advice/suggestions is appriciated.
 
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am3+ is the same as am3 as far as the socket, they just added 2 pins to the inside of the socket so any am3 cooler will work, and i'd look at the coolermaster hyper 212 plus on the lowish end, and then maybe an antec kuhler h2o 620 on the upper end.

for the monitor and adding a second gpu part, the monitor will make no difference to the gameplay, the only way it will do anything is if it a higher resolution than that monitor, and if you put it on that higher resolution all that can happen is a drop in fps, no crashing. but adding a second 6850 can't hurt, you could prob about max the game then, but make sure it has the same specs or similar to the current gpu's. if your card is a 2gb overclocked and the one you crossfire it with is a stock 1gb, then both will opperate as stock 1gbs, it's just how it works.

an ssd would be a lot faster for boot times on anything on it, but it doesn't affect anything else if you thought it would. adding a second hdd would prob be smart, 320 isn't much room, and if you put them into raid0 you'd get a boot boost like ssds do, just not nearly as much. and 8gb's is more than enough ram for anything, no game really takes advantage of that much and prob won't for a while.
 
much appriciated.

and i didn't know you could put a AM3 cooler on a AM3+ socket..that helps.

any suggestions on how much memory i should be looking for?
1tb?500gb?

Thank you!
 
Depends. How much do you need? Do you have some kind of external drive? My 750GB drive is barely full, but that's because I have a separate external drive for movies and unneeded files.
 
I mean, i do all my course work on my laptop, so my 320gb is basically empty except for steam and miscleanious programs. Would adding another hard drive, such as a velociraptor be efficient enough? or even a 120b ssd, then put windows 7 on it to start faster?

Ive came into about 1,000$ with a court case win, so i can spend about 500-700$ now.
 
I would get an SSD for your boot drive and other files, and keep the 320GB you have now. If you need more space ever, its an easy upgrade. And with the additonal money, you may want to think about either upgrading the graphics card you have in mind.

I would also maybe suggest getting a different CPU. The FX series is not that great, and no games use more than 4 cores. I'd suggest a 960T like what I have. It is possible to unlock additional cores, so in the future you need more cores, you could have the potential to unlock it to a 6-core.

And to reiterate what jonny said, the size of the TV/monitor does not matter with a graphics card. The resolution does. Your TV is most likely either 1080 or 720, so it would be fine. If you could upgrade the graphics card to a 6950 2GB, you'd get way better framerates. Be cautious though, because computer-to-TVs does make the resolutions messed up. When I switched from a TV to a real monitor, it was much more clearer.
 
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