GPU Upgrade or New Rig

AccessDenied · 11 Jan 2020 at 16:21

Hi Guys

I have bought 3 or 4 rigs over the many years of gaming but everytime I am due an upgrade I never know where to start.

I want to upgrade my monitor to a 27" 1440p 144 mhz and would liek to upgrade in the process to make this worth while. Let's say I had £1600 to spend on both monitor and full system, can I achieve this or would I be better off just upgrading the the graphics card for now. Its hard to know where the sweet spot it is.

Currently System Spec;

Intel i7-5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor
Corsair Hydro H110i GT 280mm Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Asus X99-E Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
Avexir Core White Series 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 (Running at 2133)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980Ti G1 Gaming 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive
EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply

Would be great to know your opinions?

AccessDenied · 11 Jan 2020 at 20:32

and to add - your suggestions for 27" 1440p curved monitor would be great also.

hominid · 11 Jan 2020 at 20:54

The sweet spot is a Ryzen 3600X/3700(X) build for 1440p gaming with a 144/165Hz monitor. It would be a shame to break up your current machine but you could use some of the parts to offset the cost of the new one.

If you got a new Graphics card it will be bottle-necked with the old CPU/memory, so with the old machine being 6-7 years old I think a new machine is the wa to go. Do you need 32GB of RAM? What do you mainly play/do on the machine just so I/we can get a better idea of what you need?

AccessDenied · 11 Jan 2020 at 21:07

thank for the reply. Mainly playing escape to tarkov but want to jump in to star citizen, and cyberpunk when its released. I am leaning towards a full new build and passing my current rig to the kids.

lee32uk · 11 Jan 2020 at 21:37

Your current cpu is still more than fine. I would buy a new gpu first (And monitor) and see how you go. If it is still not to your liking then you can upgrade the cpu/board as well.

Might be best asking in the monitor section, as most of the curved screens seem to be VA panels. And of course it depends on how much you want to spend.

Joxeon · 11 Jan 2020 at 21:38

I personally think you should hold off for another 10 months or so and save up another 1k then get ryzen 4000 with an rtx 3080ti. Your current machine is still decent.