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[Marcus Kemp]

4790k

Asus z97 Gamer Pro

Samsung 500gb ssd

SanDisk 240gb ssd

WD Green 2tb

Toshiba 1tb

Gtx 980 ti

Corsair ax860i

corsair 760t

corsair h100i

Acer predator x34

 

WHat do I upgrade next, I only have a budget of 767$ so I would like to try to get something truly worth while. Any suggestions?

[GeorgeKellow]

Another monitor? New keyboard/mouse? New desk? Led lighting 

[Hackentosher]

That's quite a specific budget  but I don't see anything worth upgrading, your rig is fine. Maybe an m.2 drive, but then you have to go through the trouble of reinstalling everything assuming you want to use that as a boot drive. I think you should save it, or spend it on a different hobby.

[Squish4058]

Well ive never done it but some people SLI or watercool and overclock, assuming you game a lot, otherwise Raid or bigger SSD

[Marcus Kemp]

5 minutes ago, GeorgeKellow said:

Another monitor? New keyboard/mouse? New desk? Led lighting 

May do new desk.

 

5 minutes ago, Hackentosher said:

That's quite a specific budget  but I don't see anything worth upgrading, your rig is fine. Maybe an m.2 drive, but then you have to go through the trouble of reinstalling everything assuming you want to use that as a boot drive. I think you should save it, or spend it on a different hobby.

It's a specific budget because that is exactly how much money I have.

 

5 minutes ago, kris2340k said:

Well ive never done it but some people SLI or watercool and overclock, assuming you game a lot, otherwise Raid or bigger SSD

I do game quite often, I want to watercool but never have nor do I have enough money or know how to do so.

[Squish4058]

2 minutes ago, Marcus Kemp said:

May do new desk.

 

It's a specific budget because that is exactly how much money I have.

 

I do game quite often, I want to watercool but never have nor do I have enough money or know how to do so.

From what I hear watercooling is a female dog if you dont have extra time or money.

but yeah I always love a huge desk, I work on it a lot so having enough room to write on a notepad and a keyboard and mouse between me and my screen is awesome. 

I would suggest triple monitor if you havent already. It makes everything a lot more convenient

[DocSwag]

Or.... maybe you can put it in the bank for savings......

[Marcus Kemp]

Just now, DocSwag said:

Or.... maybe you can put it in the bank for savings......

I have a little over 65,000$ in savings so I think I am fine with that

[Marcus Kemp]

2 minutes ago, kris2340k said:

From what I hear watercooling is a female dog if you dont have extra time or money.

but yeah I always love a huge desk, I work on it a lot so having enough room to write on a notepad and a keyboard and mouse between me and my screen is awesome. 

I would suggest triple monitor if you havent already. It makes everything a lot more convenient

okay well for that I would need to fork up 2400$ for two more acer x34 screens so may not do that. But I have a medium sized desk at the moment

[Squish4058]

3 minutes ago, Marcus Kemp said:

okay well for that I would need to fork up 2400$ for two more acer x34 screens so may not do that. But I have a medium sized desk at the moment

Yeah this is why im using a cheap 24" tv screen for mine
They dont have to be the same, just the same size and height. Its definatley worth it over a single screen. Mainly to do other things while gaming is what I use it for

For example I sometimes follow online Dota 2 guides while I play dota 2 as there are many different builds

[Infin8]

If you don't need a better PC, invest it in esthetics of your setup or just save your money/ use it on something else.

[Squish4058]

You could even make it more quiet by getting something like a Haf stacker and adding more fans and slowing them all down lol

[KnightSirius]

If you're really set on upgrading your PC you could change the case to a CaseLabs something or other.

 

I really can't see a reason to upgrade anything, unless you're jumping up to SLI so thats an option for hardware.

 

More exotic is you could always get a RAID card for like 400$ and another 500GB SSD or even get like 2 240GB drives and use the other 240 you have for 3 way RAID 0.

 

Water cool your Graphics card? I know you mentioned you don't have the know how but you can learn a basic setup quite easily if it does interest you.

You can also buy kits for it and just buy a seperate GPU block to use instead of the CPU block they normally come with. That would eliminate having to choose parts which usually is the point of confusion for new watercoolers.

 

10Gigabit ethernet your entire house with CAT6E and at least 2 cards. If you have a server this would be useful to you. If not then kinda pointless.

 

Custom sleeved cable sets for your specific PSU is an option those can be up to 400$ for full sets with long lengths.

 

Go down the audio path and get a DAC/AMP from someone like Schiit. That'd take the majority of the ~800$ or you can pick up some nice headphones and get a cheaper DAC/AMP setup from them.

 

Microphone + Microphone arm? If you're not a headphone user this could be useful for voice chat programs with friends!

This could be a Blue Yeti or a AT2020 with a Rode arm, suspension piece and a pop filter.

 

I could probably keep going but I've thrown a good amount of ideas out there Hope I helped some haha