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What Should I Upgrade First?

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I am looking to do a targeted upgrade of my PC to get the most bang for my buck and, per Linus' recent video, thought I would post here to try and preempt bottlenecking issues. I am probably looking at either a GPU or CPU upgrade. I mostly use my PC for gaming and hit 1440p resolution at 60-120 fps depending on the game at mid-to-high graphics. Mostly I want to upgrade just to keep up with new offerings and keep my build from getting too dated. 

 

Current components include:

  • Intel - Core i7-4790 3.6GHz Quad-Core
  • MSI - Radeon R9 390 8GB
  • Gigabyte - GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
  • 4x4GB G.Skill - Ripjaws X Series DDR3-2133
  • Raidmax - Vampire 800W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
  • Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
  • Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

I've been thinking getting a Ryzen CPU would be a good step, but haven't thought much further than that. All thoughts/input welcome! Thanks!!

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1070ti/1080 will do

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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6 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

GPU is what is needed a upgrade. A 1070/Vega 56 will do. Depending on if you have freesync or not.

 

The little extra for the vega is worth it for freesync

I do have freesync so I'll definitely look into the Vega. Thanks!

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