Spec me upgrade please

Infam0us · 29 Aug 2018 at 02:23

Hi Overclockers,

Budget is around 2K but would like to upgrade current PC for 1080p gaming at 144hz,

Playing PUBG, Hunt, GTA, CS and probably some new games as they come out

Current spec PC is a 4670K I5, MSI 1060, 12GB Corsair RAM, 1 128GB 1x250 Samsung SSD Evos, 2TB Storage, Fractal R5 Case which I really want to keep, PSU 550W Seasonic 80 + Gold

Ideally I'd like a Motherboard with onboard Wifi if possible. Any ideas welcome for best ways to spend monies to upgrade please. Would like FPS as high as possible whilst at 1080p.

orbitalwalsh · 29 Aug 2018 at 07:25

Honestly , 2nd hand i7

WiFi card

Gtx 1070

Infam0us · 29 Aug 2018 at 15:13

And what do I do with the rest of the money!

ExRayTed · 29 Aug 2018 at 16:29

Infam0us said:
And what do I do with the rest of the money!

Well if the money is really burning a hole in your pocket then you could go for an 8700k build with a 1070ti or 1080, or perhaps one of the newer 20** series of GPUs from Nvidia, but the question you should be asking yourself is how to get the best and most cost effective performance gain for your pounds. So will spending a large chunk of your budget on completely new gear give proportionately more performance than spending less on a 2nd hand i7 4790K and a new GPU? Almost certainly not.

What I would do is get a 2nd hand i7 as suggested above for a bit over £200, but add a GTX2080/GTX1080/GTX1070ti and spend the rest on a bigger SSD and a decent 1440p G-Sync monitor. You'll still have change (assuming you don't get a 20** series GPU) and the improvement will be massive.

lee32uk · 29 Aug 2018 at 17:03

Does your budget include the monitor ? Or do you already have it ?

Infam0us · 29 Aug 2018 at 19:19

lee32uk said:
Does your budget include the monitor ? Or do you already have it ?

Hi,

Sorry already have all the peripherals, including monitor the money is purely for the tower

ExRayTed said:
Well if the money is really burning a hole in your pocket then you could go for an 8700k build with a 1070ti or 1080, or perhaps one of the newer 20** series of GPUs from Nvidia, but the question you should be asking yourself is how to get the best and most cost effective performance gain for your pounds. So will spending a large chunk of your budget on completely new gear give proportionately more performance than spending less on a 2nd hand i7 4790K and a new GPU? Almost certainly not.

What I would do is get a 2nd hand i7 as suggested above for a bit over £200, but add a GTX2080/GTX1080/GTX1070ti and spend the rest on a bigger SSD and a decent 1440p G-Sync monitor. You'll still have change (assuming you don't get a 20** series GPU) and the improvement will be massive.

Do you think this is a more cost effective upgrade path then rather than selling my older parts and going straight in for an 8700k, its purely a PC for gaming. So I'd probably throw the money into a 1080ti for the GPU as I don't really see much performance increases from a 4790k to a 8700k for FPS.

ExRayTed · 30 Aug 2018 at 11:39

Infam0us said:
Do you think this is a more cost effective upgrade path then rather than selling my older parts and going straight in for an 8700k, its purely a PC for gaming. So I'd probably throw the money into a 1080ti for the GPU as I don't really see much performance increases from a 4790k to a 8700k for FPS.

Yes I do.