graphics card upgrade will work on my system??

drewl5799 · 23 Jun 2021 at 15:10

hi all. my trusty old gtx 980 has died and i need a new graphics card. I was looking at a 3070 as they seem to be in stock (today at least). Would it be a straight swap into my setup or would some other components need upgrading? Thanks in advance

My system:

-EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Superclock ACX 2.0 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - dead : (
-Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle
-Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive
-Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gbs 64MB Cache
-Kingston HyperX Savage Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit
-SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 850W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply

drewl5799 · 23 Jun 2021 at 15:31

hmmm, pc gaming is how i relax after work.....im willing to spend 900 quid on a 3070 even though im not happy about it lol. perhaps i should just build a complete new pc??

drewl5799 · 23 Jun 2021 at 16:50

thanks for the replies. I am completely unsure what to do now.....spend 900 pounds on a 3070 or just buy a prebuilt rig for about 2k.....

drewl5799 · 13 Jul 2021 at 10:10

So I think I may just have bought a 3070 fe…… £460

drewl5799 · 13 Jul 2021 at 10:21

So seems my transaction was successful and snapped up a 3070 cheaper than I hoped. Now do I just use it on my old system or should I updated everything?

thinking of reusing stuff I have- is the phanteks enthoo pro case good enough to keep nowadays or should that be replaced too?

drewl5799 · 13 Jul 2021 at 10:41

mickyflinn said:
Try it in your old system gonna be a massive improvement but do you want to upgrade to get the best ouf of your gpu ?

You can resuse most of your system if you want to just replacing cpu , mobo and memory but i would invest in a 1tb m2 drive also.

What do you want to do ?

I like building myself so I do fancy upgrading the majority of parts.

I am out of loop with most bits though, wondering if the following are reusable or too old - The case - phanteks enthoo pro, phanteks ph-tc14pe heatsink, psu - super flower 850w leader gold

drewl5799 · 13 Jul 2021 at 10:54

Yeah you’ve twisted my arm. Case I’ll keep but going to replace everything else. I’ll have to look what I need to get, base it around a 5800 and probably one of 550 boards…..

drewl5799 · 23 Jul 2021 at 07:29

So I’m playing on my old system with my 3070 and it runs way better than old system. I’m considering now just getting a new monitor and waiting for alderlake stuff.

fancy one of these for £300 if anyone has got opinions on it…

LG 27GL850-B 27" 2560X1440 NANO IPS 144HZ 1MS FREESYNC/G-SYNC COMPATIBLE WIDESCREEN LED GAMING MONIT

drewl5799 · 23 Jul 2021 at 10:12

Joxeon said:
If your happy with the performance then waiting for Alderlake / AM5 does make sense as you'll like get another couple of years of CPU upgrades whereas AM4 and LGA1200 are both pretty much EOL now.

I have that LG monitor and very happy with it.

Thanks, I’m ordering one now : )