Upgrade Advices

zion319 · September 5, 2019

Hi guys,

First of all, thank you for your input in advance and I appreciate all of your feedback very much.

Budget & Location: $1000 USD, Los Angeles

Aim: Mild upgrade while optimizing/not wasting my old parts. Also trying to improve the aesthetic look by switching from a mini itx case(cooler master elite 130) to a slightly large case(nzxt h200i).

Monitors: 1080P with regular hz. It was the cheapest option I could find in the store.

Peripherals: No need keyboard & mouse.

Why the upgrade?: The main reason is actually to improve the aesthetic look of it and I feel like my AIO is gonna break on me any moments now(been using it for more than 4 years).

Current build: i5 4670k(stock speed), gtx 760, mini itx motherboard with overclock capability, AIO with the 120mm radiator, all other parts are standard.

I don't game too hardcore nowadays but it would be nice to have a system that can game at 1440P smoothly if needed.

zion319 · September 5, 2019

I am thinking to keep my cpu and get a good AIO cooler and overclock it. RTX 2060, hopefully my cpu and 2060 don't bottleneck. Also planning to keep my SSDs, 1 with 1gb and 1 with 128gb. Get a higher voltage power supply. Maybe a higher resolution monitor?

What are your thoughts?

Senzelian · September 5, 2019

I think you should probably upgrade your cooler, which hopefully improves aesthatics and cool your CPU better, so you can overclock it, to decrease the bottleneck you'd get by upgrading your GPU.

Something like a AMD RX5700 would probably do nicely for 1440p.

Epimetheus · September 5, 2019

Definitely get an higher resolution monitor, the upgrades won't make much sense otherwise. Definitely get a new graphics card, the 760 is decent but not even at the level of an entry level card (not counting the 1030 and 550 for obvious reasons). An rtx 2060 wouldn't be bad at 1440p, but a 5700 or a 2060 super would be much faster. However, since you're rocking a quad core, i don't think you'll see a great difference from a 2060 to a 5700. Maybe you can find a 4770k or 4790k for real cheap (if you don't want to upgrade for a while after this)?

For the rest we don't know your full specs, so can't say anything yet

dizmo · September 5, 2019

There's no such thing as a standard part in a PC, so saying that is kind of unhelpful.

I'd probably see if you can find a 4790k for a good price. They shouldn't be overly expensive as they're quite old now, but you'd do well with the added threads.

If you have a budget of $1,000, really, you could do a whole lot better for your money. I'd probably look at getting a Ryzen CPU, motherboard, and RAM.

Perhaps also look at throwing a 1TB SSD in there, as you can get them for under $100.

Your PSU will have the same voltage. You can get higher wattage, buy why? It's likely unnecessary. But, again, you didn't list the part, so we have no idea what you have.