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Sven Hassel

Sven Hassel

Sven Hassel

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I have had this water cooled set up for ever...feels like it anyway...Ive been trying to play Doom 2016 and its just not quiet managing it, 1st thing its struggled with. My 5yr old son has started to play quakelive so another PC is sort of on the cards and I don't want to rip this one apart...Im attached to it now..be like gutting a friend!
Is there any setup out there has even a chance of coming close to the perfect balance and enjoyment I've had...budget around 1500

I have a DELL U3011 monitor which I'm thinking Ill keep as the main
Ive had AMD GPU's back in the 90's LOL and it was rubbish so i'm more likely to go NVidia

What would you buy?
 
Doom was fine on my i7 920 @3.6 GHz paired with a GTX970. It was painful on my old HD6950 though, which was of a similar era to your GTX570 I believe, although maybe the Nvidia is maybe faster?

Get a newer graphics card. I got mine second hand.
 
Hi,

I had a 570 GTX SLI set-up, but swapped it for a 970 in 2014. Like my colleagues have stated, you can either swap out the 570's SLI for a newer GPU (1070TI?) and save yourself about £1100.00 or you can indeed build a new system for your budget.

But there are presently three factors that will affect your purchases.

1) RAM prices are exorbitant at present due to demand, expect to pay about £90.00 for 8 gigabytes of RAM alone.
2) GPU prices are also way over the top at present, a 1080 TI, is selling for about £700.00 (half your budget)
3) Coffelake CPU's, a six core 8700K with hyper threading will cost you about £358.00 for the CPU alone.

So you need to think, what level of gaming rig are you aiming for? High-end, or mid-range?

You also need to consider the quickest way your PC will play Doom 2016 at a good frame rate, is swapping the GPU for a new 1070TI from NVidia or a VEGA 56 from AMD. A 920 CPU will create a bottleneck, but it will be less than you think, as the 920 CPU from Intel in 2009 has been one of the most solid performers over the last 8 years.

Cheers

Von
 
Tealc said:
Doom was fine on my i7 920 @3.6 GHz paired with a GTX970. It was painful on my old HD6950 though, which was of a similar era to your GTX570 I believe, although maybe the Nvidia is maybe faster?

Get a newer graphics card. I got mine second hand.
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yeah for some reason doom on my 6950 was a 1 fps slideshow- yet other games were fine, Witcher 3 on medium/high about 25-35 fps @ 1920x1200. So Doom not terribly optimised on older GPU's.
 
Fantastic! What a difference.

Totally happy now, it is flying...everything is clocked to an inch of its life...even the monitor is maxed out now with the 980ti...Its smooth as silk at 2560*1440 and stable which is a novelty

Bloody marvelous all my games kicked up a resolution level are like new titles...did I mention im happy with it?
 
Makes a big difference. I use older cpus all the time with builds for friends as something like a 920/920/960 or even the Xeon X5xxx cpus are still fine for most games when you use a good gpu.

Glad you are happy. :)
 
A lot of those high end CPUs with loads of threads from 2010ish are still just dandy for gaming nowadays.
 
maybe doom isnt created to accept dual graphic cards or you never set the game up to accept them if theres an option.
 
i was running my old i7920 at 4ghz and a GTX970 .. swapped it out for the GTX980 and the difference was amazing .. I always thought that the bottleneck would have been CPU .. but no it cranked along quite nicely. Not a patch on the 1080 but there you go .. and I'm running at 1440 as well ..
 
It's the GPU. My Phenom II x4 equivalent doesn't seem to be the bottleneck when paired with a GTX 970 at 1080p.

Which suggests the publicised minimum GPU requirements (i5-2400 or better / AMD FX-8320 or better) are essentially ********.
 
To be honest I upgraded from an i7-920 to my current 5820k and I shouldn't have bothered really as, apart from the odd specific CPU bound game, it isn't really faster then my old setup!

I should have just bought a geforce 980, a larger ssd plus a new monitor and kept my old rig!
 
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