It's about time for another upgrade....

[PSGamer]

Hello All!

I am back for some more advice since I believe that the OCUK forums are a great source of knowledge for hardware and value for money! Ideally I want to get a bit better performance on 4k games, closer to 60 fps really. I would be looking to spend £500-600 but could go up a bit more if it would get me to that ~60 fps target!

Please see my components list below. What is the bottleneck here? Should I upgrade to 2 newer cards (or 1 monster card)? or do i need to look at my processor and ram before i do something like that?

Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
i5 4690K
Asus Radeon R9 290X ROG Matrix 4096MB GDDR5 (Crossfire)
Asus Radeon R9 290X Direct CU2 (Crossfire)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 2x4GB DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz
Crucial BX100 250GB SSD
I upgraded the PSU a little while back and can't remember exactly, but I believe its a modular Corsair PSU, either 750 or 850w
NZXT Source 340 Case


Thanks for your help!
Mike.

 

[beany_bot]

Your system is somewhat similar to mine and what you are planning to do is somewhat similar to what I plan to do. Forget SLi / crossfire. useful for benchmarking only IMO. OR if you play 1 game that you know supports it well.

Imagine getting a new game and only being able to get "34fps" because it doesnt support multi card when you could be getting "60fps" if you had gone for the 1 monster card for the exact same money. (infact long term less money because of power costs).

I would get some more RAM if I was you, (16GB is the sweet spot now).
CPU and rest of RIG looks fine. Get one monster card. 1070 or 1080.

MY 2 pence.

Get this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pali...dr5x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-03b-pl.html
And 8gb more ram and you will be golden.

Oh, BTW you will struggle to get 60fps in some games still, even with a 1080. If you are talking £600 cash then selling your two 290x might net you enough extra to get a 1080Ti if you wait? That would see more games running 4k 60FPS.