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upgrade bug what to get

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Bman123

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Res is 1366x768 on a 50inch HDTV, I use the PC as my htpc in the living room. Stream hulu, Netflix and game on it as I refuse to pay for cable lol. I've got the upgrade bug but I don't know what to get. I have $150 to spare right now and if I replace something ill use the extra money from selling the old part for my budget to increase.

Honestly I play all my games maxxed or real close to it with full AA and AF. I play cod mw3, la noire, fallout 3/new Vegas. I don't know why but I got the bug bad. Looking at my rig in sig what would you suggest to upgrade?

I was thinking speakers since I use a cheap ass set of $10 logitechs that suck hard.
 
Also, I thought the setup wiz in Media Center detected my 54" and asked if I wanted it to auto-setup my desktop view as well...so I never actually manually changed it
 
If you leave the machine on 24/7, a new GPU could save you a bundle on electricity at idle. Based on current US rates, if the machine is running (not sleeping) 24/7, you could recover the entire cost of a 6850 within 3-4 years!
 
The 4800's are old enough such that they don't idle well. I agree that upgrading the GPU would greatly improve the overall HTPC experience, and not just from a raw GPU performance point of view.

Another good upgrade would be a 128GB SSD like the M4.
 
Upgrade speakers.. dunno why so many people here think sound quality is of no importance what-so-ever.

What point is playing games with maxed out visuals if you're only on rinky dink speakers?
 
Considering that ATI/AMD just announced that they are dropping driver support for the HD48xx series from their monthly driver drops, upgrading the GPU to something newer makes sense if you play games.
 
Well at least I have someone who wants to buy my hd4870. I might go back to team green this time around since they support majority of their cards still.
 
Bman123 said:
Well at least I have someone who wants to buy my hd4870. I might go back to team green this time around since they support majority of their cards still.
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Yes but nV don't have modern low/mid range cards out 🙁 Find a 7770 for the right price you will have a nice bump in performance & a huge difference with power consumption.

But I also agree speakers would be a nice upgrade. Some m-audio av40's or even creative t40's would be awesome.
 
richaron said:
Yes but nV don't have modern low/mid range cards out 🙁 Find a 7770 for the right price you will have a nice bump in performance & a huge difference with power consumption.

But I also agree speakers would be a nice upgrade. Some m-audio av40's or even creative t40's would be awesome.
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Yeah they really dont have anything that will be a noticeable difference without spending like $200 or more. I mean damn, even the hd6850 is still going for like $140 before rebate. The bad things is my video card is doing plenty good for my res. I normally buy used cards that are 2 generations old so I get good bang for my buck.
 
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