Monitor + Graphics or Cpu upgrade

smithy83

smithy83

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So i have been itching to upgrade my pc and lurking the forums for a while now reading threads but i am stuck now on what i should upgrade to

First option - Monitor + Graphics card

I am using a 20 inch Samsung 206bw Monitor (not even 1080p) and a MSI Geforce 560ti even tho i do like the screen its showing its age

Second option - Motherboard CPU RAM

Current I5-2500k @ 4.5 GHZ, 16GB 1600HMZ , Gigabyte ud5h, Antec Kuhler 620 Samsung evo 850 250gb
From what i understand This should be fine when running the latest games? if i just go the first option route as i can upgrade the second option next year

The pc is being used mainly for some gaming, general office/web

Budget is around £500 but may be able to stretch it a little if its worth it

help would be much appreciated
 
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Heat could be a a issue as my office gets the sun for most of the day so it does tend to get hot in here my 560ti fan ramps up hard during the hot months when gaming

Going to up my budget to £550 so I can stretch to a 970 I think I've had issues with amd/Radeon cards before

Is the 970 3.5gb issue big? and will it mess with that monitor resolution?

Sorry for all the questions I have been out of the pc hardware loop

I will be upgrading to i7 6 series (sky lake?) if it comes out later this year
 
Option 1 is clearly the way to go at the moment.

The 970 issue mostly affects sli users running high resolution and settings. The driver tries to use the final 500mb in these situations, which is where it all goes wrong and bandwidth disintegrates.

Having said this, a 290x for instance will still **** itself if you ask it to render something that wants to cache 6,000MB worth of data. So the 970 is the card to buy.
 
N17 dizzi said:
Option 1 is clearly the way to go at the moment.

The 970 issue mostly affects sli users running high resolution and settings. The driver tries to use the final 500mb in these situations, which is where it all goes wrong and bandwidth disintegrates.

Having said this, a 290x for instance will still **** itself if you ask it to render something that wants to cache 6,000MB worth of data. So the 970 is the card to buy.
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If heat is likely going to be an issue, agree with this.

It wasn't just SLI users - users of single cards running very high settings were getting problems (mostly GTA V from what I read). So given the fact the cards trade blows fairly equally, you need a cool running card and assuming you aren't running at stupidly high settings the 970 is the card to get
 
Won't ever go to sli so would rather get the most powerful single card within budget

Been reading the next gen AMD cards might be getting shown at e3? So may be best to wait a few days nd see what they are like
 
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Thank your for the reply there is 1 more thing

Does anybody know what the audio out is on that monitor is? Can I plug my speakers directly into the monitor so a games console will get audio can't seem to find out what exactly the audio out is
 
smithy83 said:
Thank your for the reply there is 1 more thing

Does anybody know what the audio out is on that monitor is? Can I plug my speakers directly into the monitor so a games console will get audio can't seem to find out what exactly the audio out is
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Will the speakers not plug into the motherboard onboard audio?
 
smithy83 said:
Thank your for the reply there is 1 more thing

Does anybody know what the audio out is on that monitor is? Can I plug my speakers directly into the monitor so a games console will get audio can't seem to find out what exactly the audio out is
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It has a headphone out, I assume this will work for speakers as well. Probably worth finding out before you buy though.
 
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Will the speakers not plug into the motherboard onboard audio?
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Yes but I'm going to connect a ps4 to it aswel via hdmi and will need a set of speakers for it limited space here in this place

It has a headphone out, I assume this will work for speakers as well. Probably worth finding out before you buy though.
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Managed to get an answer from the rainforest site should work fine it seems if all else fails I could get the Dell sound bar or a new 2.1 system
 
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