Thinking of upgrading

ironmysox

ironmysox

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As the title says I am thinking of upgrading my rig. Money IS an object and if I go wild my wife will 100 handslap me so I have to be fairly sensible (£600ish). I have been signed off work for 3 months with an ankle injury and the boredom has already set in (only on day 3 and I want to rebuild my pc).

So, I use my rig for Overwatch, D3, WOW and a few titles on steam but it's mainly the Blizz titles I play. I also do a lot of spreadsheet work although they are not over complex sheets and I watch a few movies.

This is my current rig;

Asus Z97 Pro Gamer
4790K @4.6
Zotac GTX1070 Amp Extreme
4 Sticks of Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz (2X Dual Channel Kit)
Sound BlasterX AE-5
Superflower 1000W
Lian Li PC-V33WX ATX
Dell S2716DG Monitor

Now I have been thinking of trying the 1700X but am I just wasting my money? Is there anywhere my money would be better spent?

I thank you in advance for reading my ramble and if you reply you are invited to dinner.
 
ironmysox said:
if I go wild my wife will 100 handslap me

I thank you in advance for reading my ramble and if you reply you are invited to dinner.
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Great entertainment AND dinner. What more could one ask for. :)

The titles you enjoy can be run at max settings on a 1050Ti at 1080p. You have a nice 1440p monitor but also a lot more powerful video card in the GTX 1070. Pretty confident you won't be lacking for frames per second?

Unless somehow that's not the case it would be a complete waste of money to upgrade that PC right now. Maybe invest in sound or keyboard/mouse peripherals if they're a bit lacking.

Got an SSD in there?
 
Thanks for the reply Danny. I'll send over a menu and ask my wife to wait until you arrive before she starts the beating :-)

You are right, I have no problems with FPS in those titles. The trouble is, off work, to much time on my hands, I have been catching up with reviews and I just fancied trying something new. With regards to SSD I have a 500GB Evo 850 for my Blizz games and a cheap Adata 120GB for windows. My peripherals are good, well my keyboard is great but my mouse, the cougar 500M is can be a little iffy at times. Maybe I should treat myself to a new mouse and bank the money until the new big shake up happens in the PC world. Any suggestions on a mouse?
 
ironmysox said:
Thanks for the reply Danny. I'll send over a menu and ask my wife to wait until you arrive before she starts the beating :)
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I'd appreciate that, thank you kindly. :)


ironmysox said:
You are right, I have no problems with FPS in those titles. The trouble is, off work, to much time on my hands, I have been catching up with reviews and I just fancied trying something new. With regards to SSD I have a 500GB Evo 850 for my Blizz games and a cheap Adata 120GB for windows. My peripherals are good, well my keyboard is great but my mouse, the cougar 500M is can be a little iffy at times. Maybe I should treat myself to a new mouse and bank the money until the new big shake up happens in the PC world. Any suggestions on a mouse?
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Yeah, I'd bank most of it anyway. Never know when something may go pop and you'll need to replace it. Mouse can't really say as I use controller on PC for games more and more. My Logitech G300s mouse does everything I want and I love it but you have enough for something better. Check the Gaming Peripherals forum for recommendations.
 
Save your money as there is nothing worth upgrading to at the moment. Ryzen is more a sidegrade and possibly even a downgrade in single threaded games. Coffeelake just isn't a big enough upgrade for the massive cost. Wait until the new Ryzens cpu's come out soon although there is talk of only a 10% performance gain so still may not be worth it. Intel also has new cpu's and yet another new chipset (Z390) coming later this year. As per usual, these new cpu's will not work in current boards and current cpu's will not work in the new chipset boards.

The only upgrade I have made in the last 6 months was to upgrade to the excellent Dell Gsync monitor that you have. The rest of my build will remain as it is for probably the next couple of years or unless a miracle happens and something new launches that will give me a big performance gain.
 
The 4790K is still an awesome games CPU, especially if you have it overclocked. I don't think you would show enough of an improvement to warrant the expense, unless you just want to upgrade anyway ( to get full support for things like NVMe ).
However, I would really consider a 1080 to feed that monitor. It's not out of your range if you sell the 1070.
 
The 1070 does it perfectly well. I have a 1070 and the same monitor and have zero issues. It may not manage 144fps in all titles but it doesn't matter with Gsync as it's so smooth. I wouldn't buy any gpu at the current ridiculous prices anyway.
 
Thank you pasty & pocah for your replies. I am going to hold fire for now on upgrading the cpu/mobo. I may have a look around for a second hand 1080 though, I like this Zotac but I run it at stock and it's huge!! I personally prefer the stock cooler in appearance! I still can't work out why I bought the Zotac :-)
 
There is NO point in upgrading that machine unless you want to game in 4K, in which case, go pay currently outrageous (thanks, miners) prices for a 1080Ti but other than that you are good to go.
I have a 4790K and a 1080 and game at 1440P on a 144Hz monitor (same one you have) and I have more than enough performance for any game I have thrown at it.. As well as watching Netflix on my second monitor while I game, if I want to.. (though not in obscenely demanding games like BF1... BF1 doesn't like when I play Netflix in chrome).

Seriously though with reasonable settings you should be damn near 144FPS in Overwatch on that setup so there is totally no point in an upgrade.

Although the fact that we don't see "holy crap" doubling in performance year on year like we did in the late 90s/early 2000's any more is depressing, it's also very good for your wallet as you can buy a bunch of parts and run them happily for 5 years (sometimes more) without your performance degrading to that of a paraplegic tortoise. It's pretty great, really. Look at how long the Q6600 lasted, or the i7 920, or the 2600K. You could still get away with a 2600K today if you wanted to, 7 years later.
 
Yeah keep it I had a [email protected] and the only reason I upgraded was to go from a huge corsair900d case to a phantek enthoo itx. Very good pc you got there. Only thing I can think is you could get a nicer mouse or headphones with an external sound card.
 
yeah, just wait. gpu upgrade to 1080ti is possibly the only thing that would give you a performance increase - and that is if you find the 1070 struggling @ 1440p/144hz (depending on the games you play) :)
 
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