Upgrading to 4k.

[arekana]

I am planning to upgrade to 4K, I have been using 4k for about 4-5 Months now and I am loving it. 

Although I am not much of a gamer, I do more programming and software engineering this is also the reason that I am here looking for some advice.

 

I have the following computers.

 

Mac book Pro Retina 15 inch (specs)

CPU : i7 5th gen 4cores @ 2.5ghz

RAM : 16gb @ 1600mhz

GPU : AMD Radeon r9 M370x 2gb GPU + Intel Iris Pro 

 

And a Mac Pro (non trash-bin model) (specs):

CPU: Xeon E5*** 6 core x 2 cpus(so 12 cores total and 24 threads total) at 2.9ghz

GPU: Really really bad (has 512MB of memory .... just to drive my displays and work on).

RAM: 128GB 1300mhz EEC

PSU: No pins available for extensions (I thought i would mention it as otherwise would have upgraded the gpu already)

 

And a windows/linux testing server (specs):

CPU: Xeon E5*** 4cores @ 3.2ghz

GPU: 2x 7970 (Mostly for opengl and stuff, they for some reason cant handle 4k even together)

RAM: 16GB

 

I would love to be able to re-use on off those existing builds and upgrade it to 4k I already have 2 4k screens (they are really tv's 50hertz tough) and I would be fine with having a new (or upgraded computer) just being able to drive one of them but with a stable 50+ fps.

 

As I already mentioned I do not play a lot of games but I am a big Civilization(4&5) Addict and World Of Warcraft and a little bit of EvE and Hearthstone thrown in there. So I would love something that would make CiV5 and WoW run more smoothly as with my Mac Book Pro hooked up to my 4k screen I get about 24 FPS (so cinamatic).

 

So to get to the point. What would be the suggestion on which of the computers to upgrade to get a 50FPS(stable) on 4K game play for the above mentioned games. I would love to be able to re-use the above mentioned systems as those would have to remain running anyway (for work and as servers).

 

I do not really have a budget in mind so not really constrained by this, but would love it to be somewhat normally priced and one very important thing for me is Silence i cant stand hearing my computers.

 

Thanks in any case for the time,

With kind regards,

Arekana

 

[Starelementpoke]

3 minutes ago, arekana said:

I am planning to upgrade to 4K, I have been using 4k for about 4-5 Months now and I am loving it. 

Although I am not much of a gamer, I do more programming and software engineering this is also the reason that I am here looking for some advice.

 

I have the following computers.

 

Mac book Pro Retina 15 inch (specs)

CPU : i7 5th gen 4cores @ 2.5ghz

RAM : 16gb @ 1600mhz

GPU : AMD Radeon r9 M370x 2gb GPU + Intel Iris Pro 

 

And a Mac Pro (non trash-bin model) (specs):

CPU: Xeon E5*** 6 core x 2 cpus(so 12 cores total and 24 threads total) at 2.9ghz

GPU: Really really bad (has 512MB of memory .... just to drive my displays and work on).

RAM: 128GB 1300mhz EEC

PSU: No pins available for extensions (I thought i would mention it as otherwise would have upgraded the gpu already)

 

And a windows/linux testing server (specs):

CPU: Xeon E5*** 4cores @ 3.2ghz

GPU: 2x 7970

RAM: 16GB

 

I would love to be able to re-use on off those existing builds and upgrade it to 4k I already have 2 4k screens (they are really tv's 50hertz tough) and I would be fine with having a new (or upgraded computer) just being able to drive one of them but with a stable 50+ fps.

 

As I already mentioned I dont play a lot of games but I am a big Civilization(4&5) Addict and World Of Warcraft and a little bit of EvE and Hearthstone thrown in there. So I would love something that would make CiV5 and WoW run more smoothly as with my Mac Book Pro hooked up to my 4k screen I get about 24 FPS (so cinamatic).

 

So to get to the point. What would be the suggestion on which of the computers to upgrade to get a 50FPS(stable) on 4K game play for the above mentioned games. I would love to be able to re-use the above mentioned systems as those would have to remain running anyway (for work and as servers).

 

I dont really have a budget in mind so not really constrained by this, but would love it to be somewhat normally priced and one very important thing for me is Silence i cant stand hearing my computers.

 

Thanks in any case for the time,

With kind regards,

Arekana

 

You play Civ5? Play me m8. But to the question. The only computer I think that you can upgrade easily enough to reach 4k would probably be your testing server...

[arekana]

@Starelementpoke Would love to but at the moment have to wait for about 2 min each time i complete a turn (at around turn 120) when it is processing the AI so not really do-able. And yeah think it will be my testing server as it already has some decent spec's but yeah

[Starelementpoke]

1 minute ago, arekana said:

@Starelementpoke Would love to but at the moment have to wait for about 2 min each time i complete a turn (at around turn 120) when it is processing the AI so not really do-able. And yeah think it will be my testing server as it already has some decent spec's but yeah

K, lemme know when you get that sorted out. Would actually like to play with someone.

[othertomperson]

I agree. You can do the Mac Pro but upgrading the testing server and using that will probably be easier.

 

The games you mention aren't too demanding, so I would probably just go with a 390. 390 over 970 or Fury because the old 200 series rebrands seem to have much superior support in Linux than either Nvidia or Fiji cards, so if your PC is going to be running Windows and Linux this card makes the most sense imo.

[arekana]

4 minutes ago, othertomperson said:

I agree. You can do the Mac Pro but upgrading the testing server and using that will probably be easier.

 

The games you mention aren't too demanding, so I would probably just go with a 390. 390 over 970 or Fury because the old 200 series rebrands seem to have much superior support in Linux than either Nvidia or Fiji cards, so if your PC is going to be running Windows and Linux this card makes the most sense imo.

Thanks that is a really great suggestion I do pref AMD over NVIDIA in linux (driver hell). So will give the 390 a look. Also that video has my interest as would love to be able to use the power from it.