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Drewouche
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Hey y’all, I have a 980 to classified and a i7 6700k, should I upgrade my motherboard and cpu first? Or should I upgrade my graphics card first? And if anyone has any suggestions I’m open to them, I’m quite new to this. I have 120 frames on rainbow six siege and all the games I run are fine I just want to start upgrading and don’t know which way to start. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks guys!

 

 

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Definitely your GPU. Any i7 running DDR4 these days is within about a 10-15% performance gap for gaming while GPUs have improved by leaps and bounds.

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Intel Core i7-11700K | Noctua NH-D15S chromax.black | ASUS ROG Strix Z590-E Gaming WiFi  | 32 GB G.SKILL TridentZ 3200 MHz | ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 3080 | 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD | 2TB WD Blue M.2 SATA SSD | Seasonic Focus GX-850 | Fractal Design Meshify C | Windows 10 Pro

 

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36 minutes ago, Drewouche said:

Hey y’all, I have a 980 to classified and a i7 6700k, should I upgrade my motherboard and cpu first? Or should I upgrade my graphics card first? And if anyone has any

What's your monitor resolution/refresh rate?

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

Spoiler

 

What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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51 minutes ago, Drewouche said:

all the games I run are fine

then dont upgrade, new stuff are always around the corner.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

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Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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2 hours ago, BobVonBob said:

Definitely your GPU. Any i7 running DDR4 these days is within about a 10-15% performance gap for gaming while GPUs have improved by leaps and bounds.

Yeah I have a Maximus rebel 8 and 64 gigs of Corsair dominators running 6 Tbs ssd I just wanna hit a little higher on the frames 

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8 minutes ago, Drewouche said:

I have a lg uhd currently with 60hz but I’m definitely going to 144hz very soon

I'd go for a 1440p 100-120hz ultra wide probably, best to upgrade it with your GPU, or just buy the monitor first.

 

your CPU is fine for 144hz gaming.

 

or just get a 1080p 240hz display depending on how much you care about esports.

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

Spoiler

 

What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

or just get a 1080p 240hz display depending on how much you care about esports.

240Hz is overkill.....

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