Hi all,
My son's motherboard recently died so I've upgraded to a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P (needed AM3+ socket). The system specs are in my signature and he wants to use it primarily to play games. I realise it will never be a high end system but the money's not there to get a new one, so it will have to be piecemeal. For my budget I could probably just about stretch to an Asus AMD Radeon R9 270 DirectCU II OC 2GB DDR5 Graphics card, but am worried that it might be throwing money away if the rest of the system will be a bottleneck. So my questions are:
1. Is the above card the right direction to take?
2. Would a cheaper card be just as effective given the limitations of the rest of the system?
3. Would I be better off upgrading the CPU first instead?
4. None of the above!?
Any advice gratefully received
My son's motherboard recently died so I've upgraded to a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P (needed AM3+ socket). The system specs are in my signature and he wants to use it primarily to play games. I realise it will never be a high end system but the money's not there to get a new one, so it will have to be piecemeal. For my budget I could probably just about stretch to an Asus AMD Radeon R9 270 DirectCU II OC 2GB DDR5 Graphics card, but am worried that it might be throwing money away if the rest of the system will be a bottleneck. So my questions are:
1. Is the above card the right direction to take?
2. Would a cheaper card be just as effective given the limitations of the rest of the system?
3. Would I be better off upgrading the CPU first instead?
4. None of the above!?
Any advice gratefully received