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Harry-
By Harry-
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Looking for recommendations on upgrading my system, which I mostly use for gaming. 

 

Wanting to get a new graphics card but worried about compatibility issues since most of my build is 8+years old, and I'm also unsure whether solely upgrading the GPU will cause bottlenecking in other areas.

 

Ideally would spend about £250 on the graphics card (maybe a GTX 1060 6gb?), although if I need to upgrade mobo/cpu in order to upgrade the GPU I'd like to keep total costs under £500.

 

Thanks!

 

Current build:

Mobo: Asus P8Z68-V Gen3

CPU:   i7 2600k @ 3.4 ghz

GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6900

Ram:  2x 4gb Corsair DDR3

PSU: Corsair TX750 

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I think that for now the CPU is fine and you can still overclock it and get increased performance. The motherboard is also not limiting performance either.

 

IMO a graphics card upgrade will be the biggest performance boost. Also maybe an SSD if you don't already have one?

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2600k can use a 1070 or even a 1080 if you want. Make sure you use a good cooler for overclocking the CPU though.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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