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WYNIR0

WYNIR0

WYNIR0

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My Birthday is coming up and I normally take whatever cash I get, add a bit from my own pocket and upgrade something on one of my pcs. Trouble is this year I'm not sure what to do.

I have 3 systems in regular use.

PC 1 : Living room PC. Used for media and gaming, probably gets the most use of all the PCs

CPU FX-8350 AIO Liquid cooled
8GB RAM
Disks all fine
R9 390



PC 2 : Gaming PC - designed to be used as my main gaming rig though it probably gets used less than PC1

CPU 4960k @4.5 AIO Liquid Cooled
12GB RAM
Disks all ok
R9 390

PC 3: Bedroom PC - used for media watching and some occasional gaming
CPU Phenom 965 OC'd AIO Liquid Cooled
8GB Ram
Disks all ok
6950 2gb



So I'm not sure what to spend on. I was intending to buy a Rx480 to go into either PC 1 or 2 and then move a 390 into PC 3 or potentially crossfire 390s. But looking at the performance I'll wait for a Rx490 or the 1070 price to come down.

Other thought was I might look into replacing the mobo and CPU in PC1 with an i5 Skylake build and move the Fx 8350 from PC 1 into PC3 as the Phenom is the weak link in all my systems and then look at a 1050 or Rx470 for PC3.


What say you oh sage forum members. What else have I not considered?
Please don't say I should swap the internals from PC 1 and 2 over. Too much faff I'm afraid.
 
Believe me, I don't need your help to spend cash on hookers and blow :)

Any answers to the actual question? ;)
 
sell pc3, make pc1 the pc3 and replace pc1 with an updated system.

given your bedroom pc the weakest it would make sense to get rid of it and given the living room pc is the most to be used then that should be your focal point.
 
I'd look into Vive or Oculus VR, myself... nothing really to change on your machines that will actually bring you better performance without spending silly money. PC3 will certainly do for media watching although it might be worth looking into steam in-home streaming for the gaming side. PC1 and PC2 will pretty much do most stuff you can throw at it without spending silly amount more money on a graphics card for little gains.
 
Could you sell PC3 and get something like an NVIDIA Shield TV for your media watching and occasional gaming?

Secondly, with your money how about just a GPU upgrade for your PC2 or if you don't use it that much sell that also?

Put all the money together from PC3 and PC2 and birthday money and get a laptop + amplifier. Not sure if a laptop is at all useful for you but if you get the amplifier then you can just upgrade the GPU as you need too
 
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