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i have a 400 budget. Anyone know any upgrades i can do to my build?

AMD FX-4170 @ 4,2ghz Quad Core

Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 Motherboard

AMD Radeon HD7770 1GB Graphics Card

16GB DDR3 1333MHZ Ram

1TB Western Digital Caviar Black @ 7200rpm

Fractal Design Core 1000 Case with pre-built 120mm Silent Fan in the front

Corsair 450w Power Supply 80% Efficiency

Lite-on 24x DVD-R Disc Tray

Was planning on getting a AMD Radeon 7870 2GB, and waiting till christmas and getting the new Intel Core I5 4670k Haswell.

What does anyone else think about my rig, and where i can upgrade?
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If you are upgrading to the Haswell CPU's in December, why don't you get one of the new GTX 770's?
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You would also need to buy a new PSU though, I think the miinimun requirement for them is 600W.

But if you are thinking of getting the 7870, Why don't you pair it with an AMD FX 8350? It's just under par with 3570k and in some cases outperforms it. Also, instead of getting a 7870, you could go a little further and get a 7950, It would still fit in your budget. (just) although, you would also need a new PSU for that too.

Here's what I would do with 400:
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Hope this helps you make up your mind
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I love it. Ive had it for 2 weeks and its possibly the best thing ive ever bought
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UR_A_WZURD_ARRY wrote If you are upgrading to the Haswell CPU's in December, why don't you get one of the new GTX 770's?
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You would also need to buy a new PSU though, I think the miinimun requirement for them is 600W.

But if you are thinking of getting the 7870, Why don't you pair it with an AMD FX 8350? It's just under par with 3570k and in some cases outperforms it. Also, instead of getting a 7870, you could go a little further and get a 7950, It would still fit in your budget. (just) although, you would also need a new PSU for that too.

Here's what I would do with 400:
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Hope this helps you make up your mind


This has helped me a lot thank you! is the piledriver architecture better than the bulldozer architecture?
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TTG_BLC wrote
UR_A_WZURD_ARRY wrote If you are upgrading to the Haswell CPU's in December, why don't you get one of the new GTX 770's?
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You would also need to buy a new PSU though, I think the miinimun requirement for them is 600W.

But if you are thinking of getting the 7870, Why don't you pair it with an AMD FX 8350? It's just under par with 3570k and in some cases outperforms it. Also, instead of getting a 7870, you could go a little further and get a 7950, It would still fit in your budget. (just) although, you would also need a new PSU for that too.

Here's what I would do with 400:
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Hope this helps you make up your mind


This has helped me a lot thank you! is the piledriver architecture better than the bulldozer architecture?


Yes pile driver architecture is undoubtedly better, AMD released it as some people were very disappointed with the bulldozer architecture.
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A lot of people consider Piledriver to have fixed all the problems Bulldozer had. If you have a choice between to two, then buy a Piledriver as from what i've seen you'd only end up saving a few pounds/dollars if you got a BD.
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if you want to push the limits through two 16 gig ram chips on there
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