gary.hall82

Thanks for the help! Nice to know my PC can still cope with a newer gen GPU.

I was thinking of more Ryzen 5 3600 or 3700X, and I'll think about dropping to 24" when I upgrade to 1080/1440p 144Hz, although I don't use the monitor for just gaming, so the extra screen space comes in handy for work.

Thanks for all your replies so far.. Yeah originally I was going to upgrade my RAM to 16 GB, but wondered if it was going to be a waste if I was going to need to replace the MB, CPU, RAM in the near future. I plan on doing this upgrade early next year, maybe end of 2020. I want to replace my Corsair 200R case too, to maybe a NZXT H510 or silimar. It's good to hear my GTX 970 SSC should be good for a little longer. I do plan on upgrading my monitor too to maybe 1440p 144Hz but that won't be for a while yet as my 1080p 27" is fairly new. Anyone else think I should go for 16 GB RAM upgrade first, as I may do that along with the case first followed by GPU then the big parts later once the next generation of CPUs and GPUs arrive.

Hi guys,. So I have an i5 4690K that is Overclocked to 4.7 GHz, 8 GB Ram, and a GTX 970 SSC with a slight manual overclock which has served me very well for 5 years. I'm thinking of doing a big upgrade of my motherboard, CPU, RAM, and GPU. If I bought a RTX 2060 Super first weould this be Bottlenecked much by my i5 4690K, considering I play at 1080p 60Hz on a 27" Curved Monitor at the moment. My options. 1. Uprade my MB, CPU, RAM first and stick with GTX 970 SSC for a few months while I save for 2060. 2. Buy 2060 Super first and upgrade the rest later. I'm currently playing GTA V Online, but do play Destiny 2, Forza Horizon 4, and just getting into Warzone. Any suggestions/help greatly appreciated Thanks Gary

RAM usage is currently around 40 to 50% after boot. Playing my current games I am nearly reaching 8 GB. I cannot get a matching stick so my OCD would lead my into buying a new kit of 16 GB (2 x 8 GB). I really like the look of the Corsair Vengeange LPX RAM. It would be £56 for a 16 GB kit at the moment. I have basic wireless mouse, and keyboard (I have a disability so can't use my left hand to game on a keyboard so use a Xbox One wired controller one handed), a decent set of speakers with a subwoofer, but mainly use a 7.1 surround sound headset when gaming. Really happy with that side of things.

Budget for each component. MB: £90 CPU: £200 (thinking of Ryzen) GPU: £250 to £300 RAM: enough for 16 GB DDR4 3000 MHz Later down the line (2021): £150 ish for a 1440p monitor (at least 27") Thanks in advance for all the replies so far

Thanks.. Would you upgrade RAM in my current build or is it worth just holding off and doing a bigger upgrade of MB, CPU, RAM? I know RAM is not that expensive but not being able to carry it over to a newer system puts me off a bit.

Thanks Lorant, When I do upgrade what would you recommend as a GPU upgrade.. I've always gone NVIDIA, but am really impressed with AMD. Don't think I'd need a 2080, but maybe a card for 1440p which is where I'd probably upgrade to in the future.

I built my current PC in September 2015 with gaming in mind. Before this I was using my Xbox One casually but really wanted to switch to PC gaming, and needed one for work (Remote IT Support). My PC spec is as follows... Corsair 200R Case ASUS Z97-P Intel i5 4690K OC to 4.7 GHz Mugen 5 Rev. B CPU Cooler 8 GB HyperX Savage DDR3 1600 MHz (1 x 8 GB) EVGA Geforce GTX 970 SSC OC Samsung 860EVO 500 GB SSD (OS) WD Blue 500 GB SSD Samsung 850 EVO 120 GB SSD (old OS). Toshiba P300 3TB HDD EVGA Supernova GS 650w FM PSU I have a Samsung 27" LED Curved monitor - (60Hz) 1080p It has been upgraded a few times but hesitating on doing any further upgrades as I'm wondering if my CPU will start to become a bottleneck in a GPU upgrade, or if its worth buying more RAM for 16 GB in total. My current RAM isn't for sale anymore which means I'd have to buy a kit of 2 x 8 GB DDR3 to keep them looking the same. When should I do a CPU, MB, RAM upgrade? I'm thinking of buying a better case first, with a tempered glass side window. What would be the ideal GPU upgrade from my 970, and would my current i5 4690K @ 4.7 GHz be a bottleneck for any RTX or newer Radeon graphics card in the midrange market (£300 ish) I was thinking of starting in a year or so, and go with a new case, a switch to a Ryzen based system, with 16 GB RAM, keeping my SSDs, CPU Cooler, and possibly the PSU if it will handle a newer GPU and CPU. Hope this all makes sense Thanks in advance Gary

Hi LogicalDrm, I tried overclocking to 4.7 and 4.8 GHz with a voltage offset of 0.170 which was stable for 4.7 GHz, showing 1.25v in OCCT running for 1 hour. However 4.8 GHz gave me blue screens in Win 10 even upto a voltage of 1.28v. Didn't want to push it any higher and am very happy with 4.7 GHz at 1.25v. Need to do further testing but so far so good. Temps after a hour stress test saw highest temp in HWMonitor to be 63 but in OCCT it was showing 53c all the time as a naximum. Never seen that setting in my bios but never needed to look before so will have a look for that. Am I doing the iverclock safely then by doing the offset voltage and not setting the voltage to 1.25 somewhere else? Have already noticing a difference when playing games, temps are staying in the mid to high 50s where on the stock cooler temps were getting close to 80c Thanks for all your help in advance Gary

Thanks for the reply. I may try 4.7 and 4.8 GHz tomorrow at 1.25 to 1.30 depending on temps. I would like to keep temps on full load in the early to mid 60s so if it got upto 70c I would drop it down.

Hi, Ran OCCT for 1 hour at 4.6 GHz with voltages in OCCT jumping between 1.22v and 1.24v CPU voltage ofset set to 0.160 in BIOS, with variable setting selected. Temps at full load are staying around 53 degrees. Is this a safe voltage? Am I reading correctly in OCCT Could I try to go higher? Thanks

Testing 4.4 GHz with a 0.150 offset. Completed with temps staying below 60c Am I reading it right that the Vcore is 1.22v in OCCT ? Thanks

I've gone back to stock, and put a manual overclock of 4.2 GHz, just adjusting the core multiplier. No voltages changed. Running OCCT for 5 minutes with High to see what the volltages went upto and its maximum is 0.912v on the CPU VCORE. Hotest CPU temp was 48 degrees. Do I just adjust the core by 1 and retest until it becomes unstable, then add +0.5v to the offset in the BIOS?

It may of been higher that 15 degrees, ha, certainly warm enough to stay warm, and not be cold.