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Just watched! Thank you for this! This is pretty much the answer to my scenario. Looks like the GPU upgrade may be the best bang for my buck right now!

I am wondering if I can get a little input on my current situation. What will get me the best performance per dollar, right now? I'll start with my current build / relevant specs: CPU: i7 2600k (stock clocks 3.4GHz, currently) CPU COOLER: Corsair H70 MOBO: MSI P67A-GD55 (B3 rev.) MEMORY: 2 x 4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz (stock frequency) HDD: Corsair Neutron 120GB SSD (Windows 7 and some games) HDD 2: Crucial BX200 480GB SSD (Games and programs) GPU: MSI Gaming GTX 780 3GB (1097MHz OC) CHASSIS: Corsair 600t PSU: Corsair HX850watt MONITOR: BenQ GW2450 (1080p, MVA panel) I originally built this PC back in 2011 when Sandy bridge was the brand new thing. I haven't made many changes since then except for the SSDs (originally I had WD blacks) and the original GPU was an MSI GTX 570, which is still kickin', I gave it to a friend for his budget PC build. I like to play games on high graphical settings, as high as possible, but my target is 60fps at 1080p. I will always make compromises on graphical fidelity in order to ensure a smooth 60fps (or higher, if possible). Would it make more sense for me to look into a new GPU? Or should I upgrade a few of the other older components in my system and do a little more of a refresh rather than just a new GPU. What will get me better performance in BF1? System refresh build (build 1): PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor $439.98 @ DirectCanada CPU Cooler Corsair H75 54.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $84.98 @ NCIX Motherboard MSI B150 Gaming M3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $134.98 @ DirectCanada Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory $51.99 @ Newegg Canada Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory $51.99 @ Newegg Canada Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $763.92 Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-10-17 15:26 EDT-0400 New GPU (build 2): PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price Video Card MSI GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card $609.99 @ NCIX Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $619.99 Mail-in rebates -$10.00 Total $609.99 Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-10-17 15:34 EDT-0400 If my goal is to get good performance from BF1, targeting 1080p/60fps, what is my optimal upgrade path? In the end both builds are fairly close in terms of cost. Build 1 will essentially get me a new PC where as build 2 is just using what I have and revving up the GPU horsepower, but I fear I may run into bottlenecks. If I have left something out or overlooking some kind of crucial detail, please let me know, and feedback is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

my bad, yes 120 gig

I already have a Corsair Neutron GTX 120 as my main OS drive with a few games installed on it and it is nearly full! I have the opportunity to purchase a new Samsung 840 120GB SSD (non pro version) for $72 taxes all in, is this a good value? I would be using it as a secondary drive to install applications like Adobe suite and some games. Should I avoid the drive because it is essentially and older model going on clearance? Thanks for your input! edit: forgot the amount of gigs...

Woops, my bad, corrected myself. They can't really leverage the speed, I guess...

How can I check to see what it is actually running in as opposed to what it supports?

Hey everyone, I'm very confused. I'll try to keep this quick, right now I'm running a MSI P67a-GD55 (B3) in my system, have been for years and it is great. However, I'm confused about the SATA ports. According to MSI this board has 6 on board SATA connections arranged in order of 1,2,3,4,5,6. Ports 1 and 2 are supposed to be SATA 3 and the rest of the ports, 3,4,5 and 6 are running SATA 2. Right now I have 3 hard drives installed in my system and an optical drive. Port 1: Corsair Neutron GTX SSD Port 2: WD Black 1TB ------------------------------ Port 3: empty Port 4: Optical drive Port 5: empty Port 6: WD Green 3TB I plugged the SSD and the WD black into ports 1 and 2 because I wanted to leverage the speed of the SATA 3 interface, but, to my surprise if I look at CrystalDiskInfo or PCWizard it shows that the WD Green in Port 6 is also running in SATA 3 (600MB/s) mode. Here is are the screenshots of the hard drives and their SATA modes all reporting SATA/600. How can this be? Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for you help! edit: MB/s not GB/s, dohhh

Haha, when it first came out I was pretty excited so I grabbed it for my new build. I think there are some better closed loop watercoolers on the market that are better now but I still really like it, works well! Corsair make great stuff.

Maybe I'll get some better fans for the H70, I'm still actually using the stock ones. Getting ones that are better for static pressure should increase the efficiency of the cooler and I could probably get above 4.2Ghz.

Good advice, thank you. Would it be easier for me to achieve more stable and higher overclocks with a z68 or z77 board? I'm up to 4.2GHZ with my MSI p67 with a corsair H70 cooler.

I guess I'm lucky then!

I haven't even heard of Maxwell, is that on the roadmap?

What kind of performance are we expecting from the AMD 9000s?

Right now I have an MSI p67a-gd55 b3 with an i7 2600k and a GTX 570, this was the machine that I built for myself when the Sandybridge architecture launched in 2011 or whenever it was. The machine still runs very well, I have made small changes here and there to the storage (added an SSD) and increased the amount of ram that I have. Anyway, long story short, would it at all be a worth while upgrade to get a new Z87 motherboard and a Haswell i5 4670k? Would this even be an upgrade? Would the difference be noticeable? Of course upgrading my board would offer up many features that Z87 has that P67 does not, I understand that, but I'm talking about noticeable difference in gaming performance. Currently I play Battlefield 3 and Guild Wars 2, looking at Battlefield 4 in the near future. Would it be just worth it to keep my motherboard and processor and just upgrade my GPU to a 770 or something like that? Lots of questions in there, thanks for reading if you made it this far. (If you are interested in my full and complete specs the link is in my signature below )

I use Chrome. What does that have to do with it?