Should I upgrade?

sniip · January 27, 2019

Hey guys,

It's the time again I think that I should upgrade my rig (was deciding many times before but never did :/). I have i7-3770k MSI gaming X RX480 8GB gigabyte z77-d3h and 16GB 1600MHz ram. I would like to upgrade into something a bit newer with DDR4 (I know it is very expensive at the moment) but I don't realy want to buy new parts since they are hell of expensive here.

I am thinking if it is even worth for me since I only use this for gaming (1080px60Hz) and sometimes light photo work. But I have some issues with my current mobo being stuborn with fans. I am currently using argus monitor (used speed fan but it's broken on some games) and fans just act us very veird most of the time. I mean sure, it does cool well but the fans jump up and down on RPM without any logical explanation.

I could live to that but I am thinking a bit about the future. So I would like something that could work fine without any additional software.

Any suggestions? what would be worth to upgrade? Is it even wort to upgrade?

WereCat · January 27, 2019

You are fine for 1080p 60FPS. No reason to upgrade, really. You can get some cheap HW fan controller instead if that bothers you.

sniip · January 27, 2019

47 minutes ago, WereCat said:

You are fine for 1080p 60FPS. No reason to upgrade, really. You can get some cheap HW fan controller instead if that bothers you.

Maybe you have recommendation for a fan controller? Since I was unable to find anything that could automatically ajust by the temperature of gpu or cpu.