Should I build new or upgrade?

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Kramer0526

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Last year I built a new computer when NVIDIA dawned it's GeForce 4xx series. It has served me well most of it's lifetime, but with the onset of Battlefield 3 and a bunch of other new, more graphically advanced games I'm sensing the need for at the very minimum an upgrade. My current specs

i7 930 2.8 (Megahalems cooler with 2x120mm, can OC to 3.5+ comfortably)
GTX 470
3x2GB DDR3 (speed depends on CPU)
Some EVGA mobo (believe it's the x58 chipset)
Corsair 800D FULL HONKIN ASS TOWER

So..I'm wondering if I should build new or just drop something along the lines of a 590 in this b1tch.

Now........a lot of you are probably scratching your heads. Why should I build a brand new PC when I have a base that will play games reasonably well. 2 Considerations.

1. My dad wants to get back into gaming and he needs a computer. Not a cutting edge machine, but something that will run modern games on default settings smoothly. If I build a new computer, he will adopt my old one.

2. I'm a senior in high school. Next year I'm going to college. I don't want to take a full tower with me to college - I want something more compact. I'm thinking one of those more box like cases where the mobo sits flat, micro ATX, only 1 GPU ever, compact. I will already have my laptop (gaming lap tops just aren't my thing), so this will be in my dorm to play games.

I'd like to hear as many sides to this as possible, so all opinions are welcome! :D

Also, my name is Alex and I'm new here. :cool:
 
graphically your computer will do fine for a while still. i wouldnt upgrade or build a new computer if i were you. if your dont want that case sell it and buy a smaller one.

now if your dad wants to buy your computer and you use that to build a new one then sure go for it. or if you want to give it to him and build a new one then sure why not.

but if your only reason to build or upgrade your computer is because you think the graphics arent going to keep up with battlefield 3 or newer games then i wouldnt, unless your rich and just wanna blow money on the newest stuff lol
 
well i hate the small cases, you cant fit shit in them, full tower all the way, and its only going to be sitting in one place anyway so whats the point in one of those small little things, its pretty much like here, you get reduced performance for a little tiny bit of space you didnt need anyway, and yeah build new and pop a new gpu in there for your dad and give it to him
 
if you want a new comp so dad can have that one then what's your budget, can build something able to max bf3 for around 1k with some room for overclocking and all, although since you'd be using this next year in college, i'd say wait for bulldozer and ivy bridge so it will last a little longer.
 
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