Do i need to upgrade everything or just a few bits?

In answer to the two posts above, it depends to an extent what you're playing... if you're CPU bound a 970 won't be an upgrade at all. If you're totally GPU bound a single 970 will be a huge upgrade.

A 970 will be a decent upgrade, but I suspect most games will end up being CPU bound and wasting some of the potential - I'd consider dropping a generation or two and getting a 770 or similar, unless you intend this as a temporary measure and will use the 970 in a full rebuild this year. It would still be an excellent upgrade, but would be around half the price.
 
stulid said:
A GTX970 is over twice as fast as a 6970 - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1061?vs=1355

In fact its more like 3x faster.

So less power draw, less heat, and games that dont scale well with Crossfire will see an immediate jump.
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Less Power draw and heat is an advantage yeah, but I'm talking about performance.

2 x 270/x is about 290x level performance. A 6950 ~= 265 and a 6970 ~= a 270.

So yeah, unless crossfire scaling is poor and you need the vram, there won't be much difference.

The 290x lightning on offer would be a better buy that the 970s, more powerful out the box, cheaper and good OC potential.
 
I still sure its a good upgrade from 2x 6950s, and he will not be cpu bound with a 2500K especially if he can push it up faster, they all do 4.5GHz minimum anyway.

He only needs it to reach around 3.8-4GHz to be matching a stock 4690K.
 
I was wondering how much of an upgrade a single 970 would be against my crossfire set up! Tbh crossfire has been a bit of a pain with some games being worse with it on etc
 
Crossfire has improved over the generations and efficiency has gone up where it works.

You still dont get double the performance and in the early days of crossfire on older cards it was much lower.

Problem is AMD haven't probably added anything to the catalyst driver to improve your situation for ages as they concentrate on newer generations.
 
Get one first, get that chip pushed up, and see how 1440P gaming is on a single card, you maybe satisfied with just one.
 
Upgrade your GPU, nothing else needs upgrading for gaming. Overclock the CPU. And as already mentioned a new monitor. Look at the BenqXL2420Z, fantastic monitor if you choose to go 1080 144 hertz. Unless ofcourse you decide for a bigger res.
 
Spec says your case can take a 2.5" drive on the floor (theres probably mounting hardware that you should have got with the case).

Your case says it takes GFX cards up to 266mm, you need to be careful what card you get so it fits.
 
stulid said:
Spec says your case can take a 2.5" drive on the floor (theres probably mounting hardware that you should have got with the case).

Your case says it takes GFX cards up to 266mm, you need to be careful what card you get so it fits.
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Didnt even thing about that! I have ordered the ssd, will get the card next :) getting there 1 bit at a time!
 
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Gotcha, that was actually google getting it a bit wrong for me.

So in that case, just check the length of the card you intend to buy, again at a manufacture website and purchase.
 
stulid said:
Gotcha, that was actually google getting it a bit wrong for me.

So in that case, just check the length of the card you intend to buy, again at a manufacture website and purchase.
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Indeed! Ill be honest, when i was searching for my case to show you, the first page i opened was for the 'One' :)

Will do! Not sure when my drive will arrive, ordered after 6pm so maybe monday now :( excited
 
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