How to best improve my rig

adscott1982

adscott1982

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There will be a raft of new games coming out once the next-gen consoles are released. I have my eye on Watch Dogs, and potentially GTA V somewhere down the line. My current rig is feeling a bit jaded.

My current spec is here:

i5-2500k
Radeon 6870
2TB HDD
8GB RAM

I am wondering whether I should upgrade my CPU and motherboard to the Intel 4770k, or whether to instead upgrade to SSD and perhaps GTX780 or AMD equivalent.

I would probably pick up the Samsung 840 Pro SSD.

The price of the GTX 780 is pretty steep and I am wondering whether to hold on for the next set of video cards to be released.

I am willing to spend up to about £700, but I want to get the best performance improvement I can for that money.

Any advice?
 
CPU is fine. Try overclocking it if you haven't already for extra performance gains.

I would go with an SSD (the responsiveness of the OS is worth the money alone) and a new graphics card.

Unless you want this new card tomorrow, I would wait till whatever games you are waiting for to come out then see what the market is like and go from there.

Can't recommend the SSD enough however
 
Thanks Rainagul. I had a look online and couldn't find any announcements from AMD or Nvidia for when the next set of cards will arrive. Any news on the grapevine?
 
Definitely SSD. Maybe pick up one of those new EVO drives that just came out. I couldn't go back to booting from a HDD.
 
Devrij said:
Definitely SSD. Maybe pick up one of those new EVO drives that just came out. I couldn't go back to booting from a HDD.
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My work computer uses a HDD and drives me up the wall how slow it can be at times.


As for GPU's I think Nvidia will be releasing its new Maxwell cards in Q1 of 2014. Not quite sure of AMD at the moment.
 
Thanks... I might just order one today.

Interestingly, at work I recently had the pleasure of testing a 240GB OCZ Revo 3 (http://ocz.com/consumer/revodrive-3-pcie-ssd).

It was pretty insane. Bit expensive for me though!

It had a few problems with Option ROM of the HP Z420 I was testing on. I had to turn it off to get the machine to boot. It was too big. Renders the drive unbootable on Z420s.

EDIT: Idleman, thanks for that, 680 looks to have great performance for a nice price.
 
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