New rig or upgrade?

RyanUNDEAD · 12 Sep 2016 at 14:21

I'm not too updated with current hardware, last time I read up on anything was 2 years ago when I bought this rig. I'm not sure if I should sell my current rig and add extra cash to buy a new rig, or just upgrade.

A couple of questions I have:
no price checks outside of MM - your last thread was deleted because of this
If I were top upgrade what should I upgrade/keep?
Would you upgrade or replace the rig?

Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Vapor-x 4GB
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz
Kingston HyperX Fury White 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz
NZXT Phantom 410 Enthusiast Midi Tower Case - BlackWhite
Gigabyte Z87M-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard
NZXT Hale Power 90+ 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gbs 64MB Cache
Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme Rev.2 High Performance Quiet CPU Cooler
OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black)
Windows 10

Thanks

rickh · 12 Sep 2016 at 14:28

New GPU would give you the biggest bang for buck if you wanted to upgrade.

wakadoo · 12 Sep 2016 at 14:28

if it was my rig i would add an ssd.

then sit back for another 2 happy years before asking again.

unless you say what you use it for not much more help can be given

RyanUNDEAD · 12 Sep 2016 at 14:31

I play games such as: Total war/Eve online/Overwatch/Arma/Battlefield. It doesn't get used for much else.

rickh said:
New GPU would give you the biggest bang for buck if you wanted to upgrade.

What GPU would I be looking at for a noticeable difference?

snips86x · 12 Sep 2016 at 14:34

GPU & SSD - done!
Oh, I would also consider overclocking the CPU, could get 4.5ghz easy!

implosiveturnip · 12 Sep 2016 at 16:27

I would personally get a fast SSD and Oc the cpu. If you're only at 1080p, the 290 is still a fine card; I'd be tempted to hang onto it until Vega/1080ti, just to see if they shake prices up.

I'd say a 1060 or 480 wouldn't be much of a jump up from your 290. so if you *had* to upgrade your GPU now, I'd look at nothing less than the 1070's, unless you could get a bargain on a fury x.

Lemin · 12 Sep 2016 at 16:44

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Samsung 250GB 750 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive= £59.99
1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £409.99

Total: £469.98
(includes shipping: £0.00)

Sell your 290 and get at least £100 off this bill

RyanUNDEAD · 13 Sep 2016 at 18:47

Thanks for the advice, I'll keep the rig and upgrade the SSD and GPU. I'm currently running 2x 1080 monitors, would the 1070 support those with an additional 1440?

In the spirit of upgrading I'm tempted to get a 1440 monitor to observe my new GPU's performance with =].