Adreyu

Supposed to arrive on Tuesday, I'll keep everyone posted.

It wasn't a pure die shrink, there were some minor architectural tweaks improving IPC slightly.

Ivy Bridge should be simply a Sandy Bridge die shrink so performance should be very similar, i'd get what's cheaper

IMO, if you are going to upgrade a relatively old build, get the best you can so that your next upgrade will be a new system (Instead of going through another round of minimal upgrades). Get 3770

the performance delta is 10% - if the 3770 is 10% more expensive, it's worth it. If it's 25% more expensive - it's bad value.

Could you be more specific as to your needs?
AMD or Intel?
What do you consider cheap?
What will you be using it for?

Your PC will be more than fine to play star citizen. currently when you are playing by yourself in an underpopulated area it actually runs pretty well, because we have OCS (Object Container Streaming) on client side. We are supposed to get server side OCS in the next big December update which should further increase performance in resource heavy zones. The game actually runs pretty well, its just the servers that are struggling to keep up currently. Keep in mind though, you are buying current gen hardware for a game who's soft release date is probably in or past 2021. 

Also SSD is a must for this game.

Your PC will be more than fine to play star citizen. currently when you are playing by yourself in an underpopulated area it actually runs pretty well, because we have OCS (Object Container Streaming) on client side. We are supposed to get server side OCS in the next big December update which should further increase performance in resource heavy zones. The game actually runs pretty well, its just the servers that are struggling to keep up currently. Keep in mind though, you are buying current gen hardware for a game who's soft release date is probably in or past 2021. 

Also SSD is a must for this game.

The sheer number of people giving their opinions with no idea about the game on this thread is astounding. Listen to Abyss.

The sheer number of people giving their opinions with no idea about the game on this thread is astounding. Listen to Abyss.

The sheer number of people giving their opinions with no idea about the game on this thread is astounding. Listen to Abyss.

Grab an i5-8600K and you'll be looking pretty cool my dude.

The sheer number of people giving their opinions with no idea about the game on this thread is astounding. Listen to Abyss.

We don't really have those kind of graphical settings yet. But you can be assured that being a PC game, Star Citizen will eventually have a graphics menu with aaaaall of the options. Aside from like Nvidia stuff. 

We don't really have those kind of graphical settings yet. But you can be assured that being a PC game, Star Citizen will eventually have a graphics menu with aaaaall of the options. Aside from like Nvidia stuff. 

October 5th is the release date. This is the Linus Tech Tips forum, the chances that you would not have seen that are so astronomically high its causing my mind to reel with the implications. lol

Can do!  

Heres 1080p 165hz g-sync 
https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/4cbkcf/acer-monitor-xb241h

here is 1080p 144hz vanilla 
https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/ZBZ2FT/aoc-monitor-g2460pf

 

thanks @Adreyu

You can still get really good M-atx boards. My h110m board is great.

yea i get what your saying

i liked the idea of the last build going with the white build so i went with a white and black build but switched a couple of parts https://pcpartpicker.com/list/FbjvQV

Well, anything faster than that is going to be heavily bottlenecked by that i7 950 lol.

It would take a lot more than a gtx 460 to be bottlenecked by an i7. 

Get a better GPU.
 
- Said everyone ever.

'splane?
 
i dont know of a single board that would pose an issue for a 4790k, it may not support OCing, but the K is faster out the box than the non-K already