Hi all!
First sorry for my english its not my first language and havent practiced in years, and thank for any help or advice you can give me, oh, and sorry for the length of the post
Budget & Location: About 300€. Location Europe (Spain)
Aim: Mainly gaming and VR with Oculus Rift, and some photoshop for illustration
Monitors: I currently have a 1080p monitor, not planning to upgrade soon
Peripherals: Not really needing any upgrade here
Why are you upgrading?: I have to play most modern games in medium to get good framerates, and I cant even play some games with Oculus because framerates make me feel sick and have to stop playing
I bought a pre-built system some years ago and I have updated it whenever I was able to here and there (mainly the GPU). Im not too saavy in computer parts so maybe my build is a complete disaster now
Current specs:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz
Motherboard: Medion MSI ms-7728 (or something like that)
Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 EVO
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 OC WindForce
RAM: 8GB (2x 4GB DDR3)
Powersource: Tacens Radix VII AG 800W 80 Plus Silver
Drives: SSD 500Gb HDD 1T
Case: NOX Hummer VX
I've been happy with the performance of the computer till last year when I had the chance to get a quite cheap 2nd hand Oculus Rift and I started noticing I couldn play some games and experiences comfortably (due to having to lower too much graphics quality or due to low framerates).
Now Im thinking its time to upgrade it, and (to me) the logical choice is upgrading once more the GPU, and here is the first problem... there are sooooo many chipsets, models, brands, etc. in the 300/400€ bracket that the more I read the more lost I found myself.
I was thinking to get the RTX2060 Foundes Edition but its out of stock since day 1 (and in the limit of my budget with 369€). There are other RTX2060 from 360€ like this one but Im not sure if they will be crappy manufacturers or if they have any tradeoff beeing cheaper than the FE.
Then I looked at GTX1060 and GTX1070,
The first (GTX 1060) is availabe from 200€ but I dont know if it would be a big improvement and if I change it now wont be able tu upgrade again in a while. And there is a ton of references.
The second (GTX 1070) feels too expensive and with similar prices to the RTX2060
Now Ive learnt that something like GTX 1660 is comming in the price range of 300€ but know nothing about it. If its below 300€, could it be a good option?
My second problem is. will that new GPU bottleneck with the rest of the system? is there other update that will get me a beter performance increase for those 300€ than upgrading the GPU?
Thank you very much for your replyes and advice!