New GPU Upgrade

[supRac]

My friend is looking for a GPU upgrade to play the new Modern Warfare.

 

His current setup is

CPU - i7 3770

Motherboard - ASRock Z77 Extreme4

8GB RAM DDR3

GPU - GTX 750 Ti

 

His budget is 300€ and I was suggesting him the 1660 Ti/S

Would you go with this? Would there be any issues with the current motherboard? Do you think there will be significant bottleneck?

Is it worth to get more ram for him? I told him that 8gb should be enough for any game.

[21rkosta]

Ram could be a useful upgrade, especially if he went used because used DDR3 is so cheap.Their might be a slight cpu bottleneck but nothing too major

[Totally Average Gameplay]

I don't think there would be a bottleneck in this. A 1660 or a Ti is a giant upgrade from a 750 ti.

8gb (2×4gb preferred) is the recommended minimum, if you're worried about getting higher framerates get into either 4×4gb or 2×8gb life by adding more of the same brand and type of ram.

 

Unrelated tho, it is weird seeing non-K CPUs in a Z mobo. I'm guessing he's gonna swap the cpu in the future yes?

[supRac]

13 hours ago, Totally Average Gameplay said:

I don't think there would be a bottleneck in this. A 1660 or a Ti is a giant upgrade from a 750 ti.

8gb (2×4gb preferred) is the recommended minimum, if you're worried about getting higher framerates get into either 4×4gb or 2×8gb life by adding more of the same brand and type of ram.

 

Unrelated tho, it is weird seeing non-K CPUs in a Z mobo. I'm guessing he's gonna swap the cpu in the future yes?

The motherboard supports DDR3 Only, so it would be best to upgrade the whole motherboard. I'm pretty certain he has a prebuilt, so that'll be a little hard.

Not sure if he ever changed the CPU, I'm not faimiliar with the Z mobos so I don't really know about the whole K situation. I don't think he will change the cpu. What problems is there with that?

 

I have now suggested him to get more ram, 2x4gb DDR3.

[Animal901]

16 hours ago, supRac said:

The motherboard supports DDR3 Only, so it would be best to upgrade the whole motherboard. I'm pretty certain he has a prebuilt, so that'll be a little hard.

Not sure if he ever changed the CPU, I'm not faimiliar with the Z mobos so I don't really know about the whole K situation. I don't think he will change the cpu. What problems is there with that?

 

I have now suggested him to get more ram, 2x4gb DDR3.

Not a pre built in the sense of oem.. asrock is good.  3770 is just fine. Upgrade the ram.  Ddr3 is fine. Get an rx 580 and call it a day. Are they using.  Ssd?