Upgrade path

[russtysandwiches]

Budget : value £

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: General gaming not super but good enough to play the latest at decent if possible vr capable 

Other details: 2 monitors currently might add more but there not all ment for gaming i only have 1 1080p acer monitor for that

 

Basicly i what to know what the best upgrade i could get for the least amount of money 

 

So my current setup is:

I7 4790k cpu

Corsair i140 aio in push pull

Asus maximus vii mobo

32gb corsair ddr3 

Asus strix pre oc 970ti

M.2 560gb samsung boot drive

8tb seagate mass storage 

Thermaltake level 10gt case

Corsair 1000w modular psu

Also sorry if this is the wrong place to post i wasnt sure where it should go

Edited August 20, 2020 by russtysandwiches
added missing specs

[jaslion]

8 minutes ago, russtysandwiches said:

Budget : value £

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: General gaming not super but good enough to play the latest at decent if possible vr capable 

Other details: 2 monitors currently might add more but there not all ment for gaming i only have 1 1080p acer monitor for that

 

Basicly i what to know what the best upgrade i could get for the least amount of money 

 

So my current setup is:

I7 4790k cpu

Asus maximus vii mobo

Asus strix pre oc 970ti

M.2 560gb samsung boot drive

8tb seagate mass storage 

Thermaltake level 10gt case

Corsair 1000w modular psu

Also sorry if this is the wrong place to post i wasnt sure where it should go

Does the 970 no longer provide the needed performance? It's still a solid mid range performer. If you really want to upgrade add in a new gpu. But do wait till nvidia and amd have launched their new cards as they are about to come out.

 

If you haven't oc'd your 4790k do try that it helps a lot. You also didn't list your ram but if you have 16gb or more you have plenty.

[Stahlmann]

I pretty much agree with @jaslion.

 

I'd go for an overclock on the CPU. Then it should still be a decent gaming CPU.

 

The only thing i'd upgrade is the GPU. Wait a while longer for the RTX3060 for example. This should be a big upgrade over your GTX 970.

But the 3060 could still be a few months away, as the high-end will start sales in september. So maybe in the holiday season you could expect the mid-range lineup from NVIDIA.

[russtysandwiches]

On 8/20/2020 at 12:00 PM, jaslion said:

Does the 970 no longer provide the needed performance? It's still a solid mid range performer. If you really want to upgrade add in a new gpu. But do wait till nvidia and amd have launched their new cards as they are about to come out.

 

If you haven't oc'd your 4790k do try that it helps a lot. You also didn't list your ram but if you have 16gb or more you have plenty.

So the ram is 32gb at 1333mhz

Ive been trying my hardest but i can't get any overclock to be stable im still trying

Im honistly thinking of getting a ryzen 9 cpu and mobo combo of some sort. Or i might grab a haswell e cpu and mobo on the cheep 

[You_found_dom]

47 minutes ago, russtysandwiches said:

So the ram is 32gb at 1333mhz

Ive been trying my hardest but i can't get any overclock to be stable im still trying

Im honistly thinking of getting a ryzen 9 cpu and mobo combo of some sort. Or i might grab a haswell e cpu and mobo on the cheep 

Maybe an x79 Xeon? But get a used 1070/ti it should help

[jaslion]

29 minutes ago, YT_DomDaBomb20 said:

Maybe an x79 Xeon? But get a used 1070/ti it should help

That would be worse for gaming. Lower clock speeds and on an older generation.

[You_found_dom]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

That would be worse for gaming. Lower clock speeds and on an older generation.

It’s cheaper though

[jaslion]

2 minutes ago, YT_DomDaBomb20 said:

It’s cheaper though

How is it cheaper? It's worse than what op already has?