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Post by janx93 on Jul 23, 2016 12:05:13 GMT
So I was thinking about upgrading my PC. I have 3 options according to my budget.
Current spec: MB: Asus 970 pro gaming/aura CPU: AMD FX 8350 GPU: GTX 970 RAM: 16 gb DDR3 PSU: CX600M
1st option: The first option I was thinking about was to sell my GTX 970 and buy a GTX 1070. Maybe I need to change my PSU here too, since its probably not that smart to use such a cheap PSU for such an expensive GPU.
2nd option (cheapest): The second option would be to buy a new GTX 970 and go SLI. This would also require me to buy a new PSU.
3rd option (go Intel) My third option would be to change motherboard, CPU and also RAM. This would look something like this: - ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING - Intel i5-6600k Skylake - Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3000 DC 16GB
What do you guys think? What would you advice me to do?
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method0ne
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Post by method0ne on Jul 23, 2016 13:06:26 GMT
Of the options available, if I were to pick, I'd for sure swap out the AMD hardware for Intel, much better single-core performance which will help practically every game on the market and give better framerates all round, but especially higher minimums which will mean less stuttering from framerate drops.
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Post by L1cho. on Jul 23, 2016 13:31:58 GMT
don't buy the 1070/970 SLI with that CPU you'll have a "bottleneck" . buy the i5 6600k and wait or you can get the "RX 480" AMD GPU
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Post by scenic on Jul 23, 2016 19:13:37 GMT
I've got a 970 with an i5 4670, and I'm cpu limited when it comes to FPS whoring. When fps goes over 145, or whenever I'm close to several cars (especially non-contact) and/or a lamp post falls, I get massive stutter. I do run very low graphics settings. Maybe if I jacked up the graphics the GPU would do some more work, and maybe even SLI would be beneficial. I have no idea how fast your CPU is, what settings you'd like to run and if you have FPS target, so just describing my system. I would definitely get a 1070 over a 970 sli, don't think you need a new PSU. But beware you might be cpu-limited.
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Post by janx93 on Jul 23, 2016 20:27:23 GMT
Yea I am definitely limited by my CPU, since games is not optimized for many cores.
My frame target is just 60, since my monitor is 60hz. I just never want to drop below 60, since it causes stutter.
I just want 60 fps while games is still looking good.
Going Intel is probably the best way to go, but also the most expensive of the 3 options.
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Post by scenic on Jul 23, 2016 20:50:26 GMT
nothing wrong with 100+ fps on a 60hz monitor, unless you object to your car going faster lol...
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Post by thedelgadic1 on Jul 23, 2016 20:51:55 GMT
I'm pretty sure that board dosent support sli. So next best option would be to switch over to Intel.
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Post by janx93 on Jul 23, 2016 21:13:27 GMT
It does support SLI
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Post by method0ne on Jul 24, 2016 3:01:55 GMT
Honestly, SLI as an option for your system is probably the worst choice, if your CPU is holding you back (and it likely is) with one 970 it's only going to be worse with two of them. Not to mention that SLI doesn't work in every game, and even when it does it often doesn't work very well even after manually refining every setting available, there's games where it simply doesn't work, and occasionally games that perform terribly with SLI but work ok on a single card.
And as mentioned, if you CPU is holding you back with a 970, then it'll do the same with a 1070 as well, nothing worse than spending hundreds of monies on something new only for it to perform exactly the same as the hardware you already had.
That is the reasoning behind why I said I'd take the Intel platform upgrade, of the three options it's the one with the most potential for getting what you actually want, which as you said, is stable gameplay with as few FPS drops and stutters as possible. Just remember that if you go this route, for best performance you'll want to do a clean Windows install.
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Post by markdowm on Jul 24, 2016 15:33:18 GMT
Just buy new mb+cpu+ram. Other options are absolutely useless.
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Post by nudeltime on Jul 26, 2016 22:30:06 GMT
janx93 why do you want to upgrade? What's your desire, what are your problems etc?
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Post by slothedits on Jul 26, 2016 23:07:24 GMT
So I was thinking about upgrading my PC. I have 3 options according to my budget. Current spec: MB: Asus 970 pro gaming/aura CPU: AMD FX 8350 GPU: GTX 970 RAM: 16 gb DDR3 PSU: CX600M 1st option: The first option I was thinking about was to sell my GTX 970 and buy a GTX 1070. Maybe I need to change my PSU here too, since its probably not that smart to use such a cheap PSU for such an expensive GPU. 2nd option (cheapest): The second option would be to buy a new GTX 970 and go SLI. This would also require me to buy a new PSU. 3rd option (go Intel) My third option would be to change motherboard, CPU and also RAM. This would look something like this: - ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING - Intel i5-6600k Skylake - Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3000 DC 16GB What do you guys think? What would you advice me to do? dont bother changing from ddr3 to ddr4, and dont bother getting a 2nd gpu, its not worth it. Just swap that horid cpu with something more compatible with GTA, e.g. Faster independent cpu cores, instead of a few hundred slow ones. I currently play with an i5 4670k and a GTX 760, 8gb ram, all 2 years old, game runs more or less like a charm.
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Post by Nick420Guy on Jul 27, 2016 6:25:21 GMT
Not to mention that SLI doesn't work in every game, GTA 4 was one of those games. I had 2 GTX 260s running SLI but it would only see one.
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Post by janx93 on Jul 27, 2016 9:53:13 GMT
dont bother changing from ddr3 to ddr4, and dont bother getting a 2nd gpu, its not worth it. Just swap that horid cpu with something more compatible with GTA, e.g. Faster independent cpu cores, instead of a few hundred slow ones. I currently play with an i5 4670k and a GTX 760, 8gb ram, all 2 years old, game runs more or less like a charm. Well the problem was just AMD. And to change to Intel I had to change motherboard too. So I decided to go i5 6600k skylake and a fitting motherboard. So now I will have a computer that can handle games for at least a couple of years. GTA V is running more smooth than ever and I can play at stable 60 fps with very high settings.
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Post by slothedits on Jul 27, 2016 16:13:44 GMT
dont bother changing from ddr3 to ddr4, and dont bother getting a 2nd gpu, its not worth it. Just swap that horid cpu with something more compatible with GTA, e.g. Faster independent cpu cores, instead of a few hundred slow ones. I currently play with an i5 4670k and a GTX 760, 8gb ram, all 2 years old, game runs more or less like a charm. Well the problem was just AMD. And to change to Intel I had to change motherboard too. So I decided to go i5 6600k skylake and a fitting motherboard. So now I will have a computer that can handle games for at least a couple of years. GTA V is running more smooth than ever and I can play at stable 60 fps with very high settings. noice
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