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Hey there linus tech tip forum, its about that time of the year again where I get enough money to upgrade my pc.

 

However, I have a pretty stable rig atm, and trying to find a upgrade seems hard as I have a hard time justifying a upgrade at this point. It feels like I am forcing an upgrade.

 

Here is my spec.

evga GTX 970

I5 4690K 3.5 GHZ 

128gb SSD from silicon power

8 gb ddr3 ram and 4 gb of random ram I found on a computer

2 one TB hard drive (im not sure what color they are)

 

My budgets is around 500 dollars for an upgrade.

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Upgrade the SSD to a 250gb or something. Everything else is fine for gaming.

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3 minutes ago, comex said:

Hey there linus tech tip forum, its about that time of the year again where I get enough money to upgrade my pc.

 

However, I have a pretty stable rig atm, and trying to find a upgrade seems hard as I have a hard time justifying a upgrade at this point. It feels like I am forcing an upgrade.

 

Here is my spec.

evga GTX 970

I5 4690K 3.5 GHZ 

128gb SSD from silicon power

8 gb ddr3 ram and 4 gb of random ram I found on a computer

2 one TB hard drive (im not sure what color they are)

 

My budgets is around 500 dollars for an upgrade.

If you're like me then 128gb wasn't enough so I'd get another ssd.

More ram!

maybe cpu upgrade but it might be overkill for you.

 

Spend the money on some other fancy tech?

Quote me if you want me to reply.

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PSU? It could be a crappy one for all I know.

 

Either:

 

-Upgrade to a i7 4790K.

-Sell the GTX 970 and get a GTX 980Ti. You could probably get a i7 4790K as well.

-Wait for Polaris/Pascal and get the flagship card (presuming you'll have saved up more by then).

 

I recommend option 2.

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Be nice to each other boys and girls. And don't cheap out on a power supply.

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What do you have for peripherals? Maby a headphone or mouse/keyboard upgrade

Please "Quote" me if you want me to see your response.

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thanks for the reply guys

BTW my psu I think it was a 750 wat bronze or silver rated psu

 

as for the upgrade I am strongly considering the 4790k

 

I play a lot of games like cs go or WoW that is CPU heavy and I feel as though it might give me more of fps boost if I did upgrade the cpu now that I think about it.

 

Lastly What is a polaris/pascal flagship card?

 

Edit: SSD and the Ram seems like a good upgrade as well. I'm going online to look at these options.

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Just now, comex said:

thanks for the reply guys

BTW my psu I think it was a 750 wat bronze or silver rated psu

 

as for the upgrade I am strongly considering the 4790k

 

I play a lot of games like cs go or WoW that is CPU heavy and I feel as though it might give me more of fps boost if I did upgrade the cpu now that I think about it.

 

Lastly What is a polaris/pascal flagship card?

Think the next Titan X/GTX 980Ti/Fury X card - that's what I mean by flagship. Polaris is AMD's upcoming GPUs and Pascal is NVIDIA's upcoming GPUs.

'Fanboyism is stupid' - someone on this forum.

Be nice to each other boys and girls. And don't cheap out on a power supply.

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11 minutes ago, Justin_ said:

Go with an i7 4790K and a new Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD is my opinion.

that i7 will not be worth spending money on the upgrade. we're talking a 30% difference in the most ideal scenario here.

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Thanks for the clarification HKzeroFive

Now I gota go and look at prices, hopefully I can get all of them.

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26 minutes ago, comex said:

Hey there linus tech tip forum, its about that time of the year again where I get enough money to upgrade my pc.

 

However, I have a pretty stable rig atm, and trying to find a upgrade seems hard as I have a hard time justifying a upgrade at this point. It feels like I am forcing an upgrade.

 

Here is my spec.

evga GTX 970

I5 4690K 3.5 GHZ 

128gb SSD from silicon power

8 gb ddr3 ram and 4 gb of random ram I found on a computer

2 one TB hard drive (im not sure what color they are)

 

My budgets is around 500 dollars for an upgrade.

500gb SSD, 16GB RAM, upgrade GPU?

 

rest are fine.

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33 minutes ago, Justin_ said:

Go with an i7 4790K and a new Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD is my opinion.

No need for i7 if he/she doesn't do any Video Editing or anything that needs the extra cores.

 

 

38 minutes ago, comex said:

Hey there linus tech tip forum, its about that time of the year again where I get enough money to upgrade my pc.

 

However, I have a pretty stable rig atm, and trying to find a upgrade seems hard as I have a hard time justifying a upgrade at this point. It feels like I am forcing an upgrade.

 

Here is my spec.

evga GTX 970

I5 4690K 3.5 GHZ 

128gb SSD from silicon power

8 gb ddr3 ram and 4 gb of random ram I found on a computer

2 one TB hard drive (im not sure what color they are)

 

My budgets is around 500 dollars for an upgrade.

Sell your 970 and get 980 ti. With the extra cash, get Ram and an SSD.

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Your pc is good for some time if i was you i would just save up to a time where i would need it more. But if you just wan't to spend some money maybe get a 240gb ssd or if you would try something else try watercool your Gpu or just the Cpu

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My monitor is an asus vg248 so I think I can ride this monitor out for a bit longer.

 

I am thinking about the SSD though. That seems like a logical choice.

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