I see. I would recommend swapping a new FSP Hexa 500W, RM149 together as the upgrade.

The rough equivalent today is HD 7770 / 7790. You can get a Sapphire HD 7790 at around RM429. However, for the same price, you can get the significantly superior GTX 750, which is even faster than the HD 7790.

Below would be my suggestion (if it is still available):

1. HD 7750
2. R7 250
3. HD 7730

Note that the above is also ranking by performance. Example, HD 7750 is faster than R7 250.

In terms of out of box performance, definitely R7 265 is the faster card. The MSI version of the 750 Ti isn't clocked by default fast enough to match R7 265.

A 400W PSU to go with GTX 580?

Anyway, i3 is good enough. Of course for some games that utilize more than 2 cores, the i5 may come in handy.

Intel Core i3 4130 - RM349
Asrock H81M-DGS - RM179
Corsair Value Ram 4GB DDR3 1600MHz - RM124
Seasonic S12 II 620W PSU - RM299

Total - RM951 (prices are from Viewnet)

Your overall components are still relatively top notch.

CPU: Intel Core i5 4440 - RM579
MOBO: Asrock B85M Pro4 – RM279
RAM: Kingston value RAM 2x4GB 1333mhz
GPU: Gainward GTX 770 Phantom - RM1199 (lingloong / zhen^wei)
PSU: Corsair tx650 v2
Casing: Corsair 400r
Monitor: Dell UltraSharp U2713HM 27 2560 x 1440

Total - RM2057 (prices are from Viewnet)

This post has been edited by rav3n82: Apr 14 2014, 02:16 PM

Don't worry, your 580 isn't particularly considered high end these days. But even if it's the current high end card, the i3 is still plenty fast enough.

There is a reason why manufacturers have a "recommended" minimum PSU to go with a particular card. A system based on GTX 580 typically pulls roughly up to about 400 - 450W, according to Guru3D and Hardwarecanucks, which is probably under full synthetic load. If we figuratively take a more realistic number of about 300 - 350W at gaming load, that is already like ~89 - 104% of what the main 12V rails are able to produce already (where the GPU and CPU draws most of its power from). I certainly think this is not advisable at all.

Usually the FSP Hexa 500W are paired with cards that run on lower TDP, not with a typical 250W rated card. People with actual experience running a R9 280X (roughly equivalent power consumption with a 580) have feedback that it did ran into problems powering it up at full load with a Hexa 500.

I would stay away from Xigmatek XAF as these are relatively noisy fans, though churning good airflow. But as always, you can't always have the best of both worlds (quiet and strong airflow) at the same time. Either one would be compromised in order to excel on the other criteria.

Some of the better ones that I have come across: Bitfenix Spectre, Arctic Cooling F12, Corsair AF120 (expensive though). All these fans seem to be slightly inclined towards quietness.

True story yo. But I find it to be rather weak in terms of airflow, which is well, either you trade quietness or strong airflow anyway.

For my Raider, I had the Corsair AF120 as exhaust since it has a very strong airflow but still remain silent, and with it at the rear position, there is no audible noise whatsoever on my sitting position.

A common hallmark with Asus card is that they are usually very well built. And as mykchin8 mentioned above also, the DCUII Cooler is also a rather good cooling solution. However, they unfortunately do not come cheap and is often priced a little more compared to other brands. Asus version costs RM2799, while Zotac's version costs RM2459.

As for Zotac AMP! Edition, it is also a very finely built card as well. I have its younger brother, the 780 AMP! and I must say it is a very nice card indeed. Fans are silent and temps are quite good.

But I couldn't comment much in terms of after sales services, since I have not personally sent in any of my parts to Asus and Zotac before.

You're definitely welcome. It's true, I got this 780 AMP! as a stand-in after my fan on my Sapphire Tri-X died on me, and I must say the Zotac card is one of my best purchases in a long while. I still have no experience with the after sales though, touchwood it would be able to outlast at least my frequent upgrading exercises.

RM340 can also get a decent 120GB SSD yo!

And I also do agree that Cycom is really one of the better retailers in LYP. They never cease to impress me whenever I make my yearly pilgrimage there.

This post has been edited by rav3n82: Apr 16 2014, 02:51 PM

The 2 years warranty is the local manufacturer warranty, as provided by local distributor.

The 3 years extended warranty is the warranty direct with Zotac. Any issues, you will need to liaise with them directly. Also important to take note that you will need to register for the extended warranty program within 28 days (if not mistaken) of purchase.

Firstly, your link shows a comparison between GTX 650 and HD 7790. Secondly, avoid using Hwcompare since it does not give you an accurate representation of your product's performance. They usually compare memory bandwidth, texel/pixel rate performance, which to the layman isn't going to interpret anything useful at all.

Techpowerup is a good source of checking out your graphic card's performance.

Can try this, Viewsonic VX2370SMH 23" LED IPS monitor, RM549 at Viewnet.

Actually, GTX series with GPU Boost 2.0 will try to boost as high as possible, within the default temperature target of 80C. That's why you will see most cards will tend to reach the 80C range. It is designed to run that way and will not cause harm. So far the best 760s with excellent temps are either MSI's Gaming/HAWK or Asus DCUII series. Their load temperatures will hardly even exceed 70C.

And some cards, e.g AMD's R9 290/X does throttle when it reached its temperature target of 95C, but the impact in-game is only minimal. And this is only common to the lousy cooler used on the reference card. There are so many non-reference cards that you can get. And these comes with excellent custom cooler that completely overcomes the noise and temperature issue.

I echo this statement as well. Doesn't pay to skimp on the OS. Experience speaks for itself.

Yes, you can.

Do you plan to overclock? If no, we could recommend you something more value for your money.

Intel Core i5 4440 - RM579
Asrock H87 Pro 4 - RM319
Corsair Value Ram 8GB DDR3 1600MHz - RM229
Zotac GTX 780 Ti AMP! Edition - RM2459
Seasonic S12 II 620W PSU - RM299
Plextor M5S 256GB SSD – RM564
WD Caviar Blue 1TB HDD - RM189
Cooler Master Storm Scout II Casing – RM309
Lite-On 24x DVDRW – RM59

Total – RM5006 (prices are from Viewnet)