Should I upgrade my processor or GPU?

[ReamlsGoing]

Hi, I have a I7-3770 3.4 processor, 16 gb ddr3 ram, msi Radeon R9 290x twin frozr, 750 watt power supply, Gigabyte z77x-Ud5h motherboard, and a cooler master storm mid tower. Should I upgrade the motherboard for a new processor? Or just the graphics card? Thank you for your support. 

[AlTech]

17 minutes ago, ReamlsGoing said:

Hi, I have a I7-3770 3.4 processor, 16 gb ddr3 ram, msi Radeon R9 290x twin frozr, 750 watt power supply, Gigabyte z77x-Ud5h motherboard, and a cooler master storm mid tower. Should I upgrade the motherboard for a new processor? Or just the graphics card? Thank you for your support. 

Depends on how much you'd be willing to spend.

 

I think you should wait for the Fury X v2 or Fury v2.

 

Wait for coffee lake/Kaby Lake for upgrading CPU and Motherboard.

[Devin92]

I would upgrade GPU first. Ur i7 should still be gd.

[Streetguru]

40 minutes ago, ReamlsGoing said:

Hi, I have a I7-3770 3.4 processor, 16 gb ddr3 ram, msi Radeon R9 290x twin frozr, 750 watt power supply, Gigabyte z77x-Ud5h motherboard, and a cooler master storm mid tower. Should I upgrade the motherboard for a new processor? Or just the graphics card? Thank you for your support. 

Neither really

 

what's the issue? Did you get a new 4k display or something? the 290X is still more than capable for 1080p or 1440p gaming

[ReamlsGoing]

On 7/21/2016 at 1:42 PM, Streetguru said:

Neither really

 

what's the issue? Did you get a new 4k display or something? the 290X is still more than capable for 1080p or 1440p gaming

Its just that I want to pass 60+ fps on ultra or high settings games. Like ark or GTA 5, I'm only getting 40-55 fps. 

[ReamlsGoing]

On 7/21/2016 at 1:20 PM, AluminiumTech said:

Depends on how much you'd be willing to spend.

 

I think you should wait for the Fury X v2 or Fury v2.

 

Wait for coffee lake/Kaby Lake for upgrading CPU and Motherboard.

My budget is 600. I havent heard of the Fury series before what type of GPU are they? I guess I'm way behind cause I also havent heard of The coffee lake/Kaby. Can you please update me?

[Streetguru]

6 minutes ago, ReamlsGoing said:

Its just that I want to pass 60+ fps on ultra or high settings games. Like ark or GTA 5, I'm only getting 40-55 fps. 

You should be pretty fine for 1080p gaming there, 70fps average here

 

really there shouldn't be able trouble running high settings GTAV with your set up, do you have the latest drivers?

And doesn't ark run like shit on anything? isn't it still early access/beta?

In any case you might as well hold out for vega/1080 ti, or were you gaming at 1440p?

 

**Fury is AMD's current high end

 

The other stuff is intel's new CPUs, but they're hardly faster than the CPU you currently have, Skylake was only a 5% IPC lift from haswell

[ReamlsGoing]

Just now, Streetguru said:

You should be pretty fine for 1080p gaming there, 70fps average here

 

really there shouldn't be able trouble running high settings GTAV with your set up, do you have the latest drivers?

In any case you might as well hold out for vega, or were you gaming at 1440p?

I was at 1080p I have the newest drivers, I wonder why I'm not getting that good of fps, 

[Streetguru]

14 minutes ago, ReamlsGoing said:

I was at 1080p I have the newest drivers, I wonder why I'm not getting that good of fps, 

What's your card's temperature when gaming? Might just need to replace the thermal paste on it

 

also edited that post, but really there's pretty much no real reason to upgrade, just keep on saving, upgrade your display before anything, a 290x should be more than capable for 1080p 60hz gaming, anything more is pretty overkill, and you're going to want to upgrade your display first, because A none of the new GPUs are even in stock, but mostly because GPU prices drop faster than display prices overall

Hell go 4k with that money, a giant 4k display is all you need to be happy in life, course then you're still gaming at 1080p for most games, but then you never have to replace your display
 

 

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Also in this test, the i5 3750K is only hitting 55fps with a Titan X, you might just be hitting a CPU bottleneck in GTAV specifically, but really, still not a major reason to upgrade, because a skylake say i7 6700 is hardly going to be faster

Although this was at max settings, vs Ultra in the previous test with the 4790K



 

 

[ReamlsGoing]

Just now, Streetguru said:

What's your card's temperature when gaming? Might just need to replace the thermal paste on it

I get an average of about 95-100C.

[Streetguru]

35 minutes ago, ReamlsGoing said:

I get an average of about 95-100C.

Then you really need to replace your thermal paste possibly

Is it a reference card? You may need to go into MSI after burner or something and up the fan speed

It's designed/allowed to run that hot but you're probably hitting thermal limits constantly

Try setting your fan speed to 100% first to see if performance in games improves, if it's reference maybe consider upgrading the cooling potentially, maybe. if not reference then it might just need new paste or better air flow

 

What's your case?

[ReamlsGoing]

24 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Then you really need to replace your thermal paste possibly

Is it a reference card? You may need to go into MSI after burner or something and up the fan speed

It's designed/allowed to run that hot but you're probably hitting thermal limits constantly

Try setting your fan speed to 100% first to see if performance in games improves, if it's reference maybe consider upgrading the cooling potentially, maybe. if not reference then it might just need new paste or better air flow

 

What's your case?

The case I have right now is the cooler master scout. (First gen, not 2nd) And I'll give it a try.

[Streetguru]

23 minutes ago, ReamlsGoing said:

The case I have right now is the cooler master scout. (First gen, not 2nd) And I'll give it a try.

If it runs a lot better at 100% fan load, obviously it's loud as shit, but ya, Arctic Cooling makes a ton of after market cooling stuff if it's a reference card

They also make a ton of water cooling options, but those are a bit more expensive for like a 240mm radiator, and probably more painful to install, although this thing is apparently massive

$65 for this triple fan model, should fit your reference card just fine
"R9 290(X) "

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAB7G4887893&cm_re=ARCTIC_COOLING-_-35-186-097-_-Product

Here are VRM heatsinks to place on the memory modules
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00637X42A?tag=viglink20390-20
 

Longer video on the arctic cooler fair amount of work to install regardless

You can see the heatsinks used here for a 480 hybrid build

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Of course you have money so you could always just buy a newer GPU I guess, but you aren't going to get too much more performance, though I suppose if you can sell the 290 later that's something anyways

 

The Fury is on sale at newegg for as low as $400, I picked one up and aside from some coil whine it's pretty good, pretty overkill for your display though, you could also always upgrade to a triple display set up or a 1080p 144hz display if you play a lot of CS:GO or something
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150742&cm_re=Fury_X-_-14-150-742-_-Product

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If you don't want to spend a lot of money and can quickly sell that 290, for the price and pain of installing an after market cooler you could just buy say the 4gb saphire nitro 480 for a bit more performance, but mostly better power consumption and thermals, 8gb one is $40 more I think, hitting 1060 territory at that point and that's a whole nother can of worms

assuming you get like $140+ for the 290 which shouldn't be too hard probably $180 if the guy doesn't try to haggle
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3098825/components-graphics/sapphire-nitro-rx-480-review-polaris-rethought-and-refined.html

[AlTech]

5 hours ago, ReamlsGoing said:

My budget is 600. I havent heard of the Fury series before what type of GPU are they? I guess I'm way behind cause I also havent heard of The coffee lake/Kaby. Can you please update me?

Coffee lake is rumored to be coming out in the future. Kaby Lake is going to come out next year.

 

the Fury Series represents GPUs between $500-650 and are a new higher tier of AMD GPUs.

 

They are meant to be really amazing performance and be good at 4K and stuff.

 

6 hours ago, ReamlsGoing said:

Its just that I want to pass 60+ fps on ultra or high settings games. Like ark or GTA 5, I'm only getting 40-55 fps. 

OH. So in that case you can just buy the existing R9 Fury or Fury X.

 

If you want to wait for the next gen version then you can but there is an existing version.