Unneeded Performance or Flashiness?

[ConiferousJelly]

So I am torn...

 

I have a budget of $1200, so at first I was eyeing the GTX 1070. Then I was messing around on PCPP and found out a way to fit an i5-6600k and GTX 1080 FE (Of course not the FE, probably a Classified Version or FTW Version but they are either same or lower price) for $1300, So I was willing to spend the extra $100 for the GTX 1080. The thing is: I only have a 1080p monitor, and with this PC, I am not going to have enough money for a 1440p monitor in quite sometime to be able to utilize this performance. So my next option was, get the 1070 and upgrade some things, like make the case have tempered glass and upgrade my Cryorig H7 to a AIO Water cooler. But even then, I am either hitting my budget right on or exceeding it. What should I do? Spend the extra $100 for the 1080 and go strictly for performance with an Air cooler and budget case, with GPU performance I won't use for a while, or go with the 1070 and the AIO and nice case? Should I think about the GTX 1060 even? What should I do? 

 

Thanks!

[FloRolf]

how about you just use "main rig 1"?

[Oakley]

So subjective....If it is a a huge amount of time before you can afford a 1440p monitor I would get the 1070. If it is within a couple of months I would get the 1080.

[ConiferousJelly]

2 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

how about you just use "main rig 1"?

Need two different PCs for two different locations :3

[ConiferousJelly]

1 minute ago, Oakley said:

So subjective....If it is a a huge amount of time before you can afford a 1440p monitor I would get the 1070. If it is within a couple of months I would get the 1080.

Really all depends on the prices of those monitors, I mean $450 for a monitor is not doable very soon.

[FloRolf]

3 minutes ago, ConiferousJelly said:

Need two different PCs for two different locations :3

Soooo how about main rig 2?

[Oakley]

3 minutes ago, ConiferousJelly said:

Really all depends on the prices of those monitors, I mean $450 for a monitor is not doable very soon.

From what I have seen a 1070 can push decent framerates on a 1440...If you still want to get a monitor like that down the road the option would be there. I would go 1070.

[ConiferousJelly]

1 minute ago, FloRolf said:

Soooo how about main rig 2?

That is the rig being replaced LOL

[FloRolf]

4 minutes ago, ConiferousJelly said:

That is the rig being replaced LOL

Why? Just give it 4 more gigs of ram and maybe a new GPU and you are golden. If it's only your secondary PC it should be enough.

Then you can give your Main Rig 1 a new GPU aswell. any an ssd

[Mr.Meerkat]

4 minutes ago, ConiferousJelly said:

That is the rig being replaced LOL

Best price to performance is spending nothing and continuing using that second rig

 

Anyway, my vote goes to 1070 but only if the chances that you are gonna upgrade monitor is so small it's not gonna happen for at lease 1+ year.

[ConiferousJelly]

3 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

Why? Just give it 4 more gigs of ram and maybe a new GPU and you are golden. If it's only your secondary PC it should be enough.

Then you can give your Main Rig 1 a new GPU aswell. any an ssd

1 and 2 aren't numbers in which it is priority, I use both PCs around %50 of the time I'm using a PC

 

I also actually did order 8 gigs of ram for that rig to replace the 4 already in there, don't know what was up but PC never booted using either both, or each single stick so it could've been a DOA or the mobo not liking newer ram.

 

 

[ConiferousJelly]

7 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Best price to performance is spending nothing and continuing using that second rig

 

Anyway, my vote goes to 1070 but only if the chances that you are gonna upgrade monitor is so small it's not gonna happen for at lease 1+ year.

its so loud, dusty, and the case doesn't allow for really any cable management with no back tray and the PSU being on the top

[Mr.Meerkat]

17 minutes ago, ConiferousJelly said:

its so loud, dusty, and the case doesn't allow for really any cable management with no back tray and the PSU being on the top

Apart from being loud (which is caused by dust so a nice clean should help) having a bad case doesn't mean the whole PC needs to switch

 

[ConiferousJelly]

15 hours ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Best price to performance is spending nothing and continuing using that second rig

 

Anyway, my vote goes to 1070 but only if the chances that you are gonna upgrade monitor is so small it's not gonna happen for at lease 1+ year.

After looking it over... The soonest I could get the monitor is 1 year, So im thinking 1070 or even 1060? Also, I could upgrade the PSU, case, and GPU and the CPU would be fine?

[Mr.Meerkat]

4 hours ago, ConiferousJelly said:

After looking it over... The soonest I could get the monitor is 1 year, So im thinking 1070 or even 1060? Also, I could upgrade the PSU, case, and GPU and the CPU would be fine?

You can't...you need to upgrade your motherboard to be able to upgrade your CPU resulting in probably having to get new ram as you probably go skylake.

I'm inclined to say that the psu you have is good enough but it's not that new and it wasn't a "very good" PSU to start with so I'm not sure

[ConiferousJelly]

3 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

You can't...you need to upgrade your motherboard to be able to upgrade your CPU resulting in probably having to get new ram as you probably go skylake.

I'm inclined to say that the psu you have is good enough but it's not that new and it wasn't a "very good" PSU to start with so I'm not sure

 I meant would the CPU be fine with a new GPU. not replacing the CPU and not the mobo, keeping the CPU. I might explore getting a 1060 and if not a 1070 because its performance I don't need.