New Monitor on the way, what to upgrade for max benefit

EnzoSmithers · 19 Jun 2017 at 23:39

Evening all,

i ordered a Dell S2716DG tonight to replace 2 of my triple setup of Dell U2415H's now I don't sim race any more.

The rest of my specs are as follows:

Intel i7 Ivybridge 3770K @ 3.9Ghz
MSI Z77 Mpower motherboard
MSI GTX 970
16Gb G.Skill PC3-12800 (800mhz)

This runs most games i play well enough at present in 1080p, but im not sure how its going to cope with 1440p from Wednesday. (Things I play at present are Overwatch, BF1, Heroes of the Storm etc)

Would I benefit more from upgrading mobo/cpu/ram or the GPU?

Can't afford to do both but could probably have about a 300 or so budget.

Thoughts? Cheers

bioshockeruk · 19 Jun 2017 at 23:44

For those games listed I would say your biggest benefit is in a GPU upgrade, also having slightly more VRAM on the GPU will help in rendering textures across higher resolutions.

Quartz · 20 Jun 2017 at 00:11

Just a suggestion, but keep three monitors and have them in PLP formats.

BinnsY · 20 Jun 2017 at 10:31

I have a very similar system to you, I'm essentially just one step down on the CPU but I run at a higher clock speed. I also ran a 970 at 1440p. In short, it won't cope. They just about have the grunt, but unless your willing to drop textures on the latest games they just dont have the VRAM to cope with the latest titles.

I would go to a 1070 and see if you can push your overclock any higher. That should give you comparable performance to my PC and I'm still able to max most games without issue.

EnzoSmithers · 20 Jun 2017 at 12:39

Thanks Binnsy that's very interesting, looks like a 1070 it is then, cheers

Would their be any mileage in getting my ram to run a little faster as well maybe?

Glanza · 20 Jun 2017 at 13:42

New GPU will be next upgrade

BinnsY · 20 Jun 2017 at 15:31

EnzoSmithers said:
Thanks Binnsy that's very interesting, looks like a 1070 it is then, cheers

Would their be any mileage in getting my ram to run a little faster as well maybe?

If you can clock it along with your CPU I can't imagine it would hurt, but mine's only one step higher than yours at 1866 vs your 1600 so I can't imagine it will make too much difference. To give you an idea of how the 1070 copes I'm currently playing Deus Ex Mankind Divided with @1440p with almost everything on max except for one of the voulmetric lighting settings I think it is that's on "high" instead of "ultra" (It's literally just one or two of the lighting / hbao options but I can't remember exactly which). For the most part I'm making a stable 40-70fps depending on the complexity of the scene, but I've seen afterburner hit 7.5GB of VRAM usage with those settings.