Possible Upgrade?

carl5363

carl5363

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Hello,

The last build I got was the below in 2013:

Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM
GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC)
XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply

I assume there's more I can do with this now? I play games and would like to play everything on max.

Cheers,
 
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i was going to ask pretty much same question although i want to slowly make my way into 4k gaming, my current specs:

Gigabyte Z77X-D3H
i5 4670k OC'd to 4.5GHz
8 GB RAM
GTX 970

would GPU upgrade be enough or would i need to upgrade CPU aswell?
 
Wraith1uk said:
i was going to ask pretty much same question although i want to slowly make my way into 4k gaming, my current specs:

Gigabyte Z77X-D3H
i5 4670k OC'd to 4.5GHz
8 GB RAM
GTX 970

would GPU upgrade be enough or would i need to upgrade CPU aswell?
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1155 motherboard with an 1150 cpu ? type o
 
after doing a bit of research, it seems I can get playable frame rates with 2 970's in SLi (with some graphic setting adjustments), if I was to go down this route, is my power supply ok: (2 Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970s)

Corsair Builder Series CX 750W Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
 
stulid said:
SSD (this wont actually help game performance).
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It sort of does. Always annoys me when the last person to show up in the lobby each time starts spouting about their £300 Nvidia card.

Should have spent more on the hard drive tbh instead of keeping everyone else waiting for their mechanical HD.

Corsair Builder Series CX 750W Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
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At stock speeds the system with two cards would pull no more than 450 at the wall. The original quoted 550 might do it, but not quite enough safety margin. And would be too noisy close to max power.

So the 750 would be enough (Edit 3! and has the cable support, but you will need to check reviews for cable lenght), but you would need to decide whether better power efficiency of a 600W Gold would be better than perhaps lower fan volumes when gaming closer to the 750's 50% mark.

I struggled to quickly find a review with fan noise info for it. This one has it barely scraping bronze classification. Only 85.5% efficiency at 50%:

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/71...0-plus-bronze-power-supply-review/index4.html

Edit2: Didn't realise its price was so low. You might struggle to do better if you want to go SLI. There is the same price Areocool brand 750W bronze supply on sale at OCUK as well, and the £10 more expensive 'Gold' version. I'd probably try to hunt down some reviews on that brand as it appears to be your main alternative.
 
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JTrickle said:
Edit2: Didn't realise its price was so low. You might struggle to do better if you want to go SLI. There is the same price Areocool brand 750W bronze supply on sale at OCUK as well, and the £10 more expensive 'Gold' version. I'd probably try to hunt down some reviews on that brand as it appears to be your main alternative.
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I wouldn't go anywhere near an Aerocool psu.
 
JTrickle said:
It sort of does. Always annoys me when the last person to show up in the lobby each time starts spouting about their £300 Nvidia card.

Should have spent more on the hard drive tbh instead of keeping everyone else waiting for their mechanical HD.



At stock speeds the system with two cards would pull no more than 450 at the wall. The original quoted 550 might do it, but not quite enough safety margin. And would be too noisy close to max power.

So the 750 would be enough (Edit 3! and has the cable support, but you will need to check reviews for cable lenght), but you would need to decide whether better power efficiency of a 600W Gold would be better than perhaps lower fan volumes when gaming closer to the 750's 50% mark.

I struggled to quickly find a review with fan noise info for it. This one has it barely scraping bronze classification. Only 85.5% efficiency at 50%:

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/71...0-plus-bronze-power-supply-review/index4.html

Edit2: Didn't realise its price was so low. You might struggle to do better if you want to go SLI. There is the same price Areocool brand 750W bronze supply on sale at OCUK as well, and the £10 more expensive 'Gold' version. I'd probably try to hunt down some reviews on that brand as it appears to be your main alternative.
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kinda confused with all of that, the corsair 750W is what i already have, no intention of changing it, was asking if it was capable
 
Didn't realise you were a different poster than the OP listing a 550W :p

The TLDR is that at the £62 price I would agree that's the best PSU choice to do SLI with 2 970s if you can't spend more on the PSU.
 
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