Upgrade advice

mark43

mark43

mark43

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Hi All

The imminent arrival of GTA V has got me thinking about upgrading, that and the fact that my system is over 3 years old. So I was thinking I'd replace the motherboard, CPU, RAM and GPU (currently have a P67 mobo, 2500K and a 6950).

I was googling earlier and found a thread on another forum where people were suggesting it was hardly worth upgrading from a 2500K to a 4690K as the performance improvement isn't that great, which seemed odd to me. But based on that I was wondering if I'd be wasting money and better off just upgrading the GPU?

Can anyone give any advice on this, I'm okay with spending the money to upgrade it all but don't want to be throwing money away if its not worth it, would the rest of the system bottleneck performance if I just upgraded the GPU? I never tend to upgrade individual components at a time and generally prefer to wait and do it all in one go.

I only game at 1680 x 1050, I may well replace my screen at some point in the future but doubt I'll go above 1080P.

Thanks.
 
I really wouldn't upgrade from a 2500k. The price for the small gain is simply not worth it. Each generation since Sandybridge has only been a tiny performance increase with Intel concentrating on efficiency and the onboard gpu. Overclock the 2500k if you haven't already done so and buy a new gpu. Something along the lines of a GTX970/R9 280X/R9 290 would be a nice upgrade from a 6950 and wouldn't be bottlenecked by a overclocked 2500k. Do you have a SSD and a decent psu?
 
Thanks guys, here is the full list of what I have. Sorry for the excessive details for each, just a copy and paste job.

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Thanks, well that's a few hundred saved.

I only spent around £200 on a GPU last time but might strech to £300, maybe something like this?, or possibly the AMD equivalent, I tend to lean towards AMD, but I guess whichever gives the best performance for the money.

Either way, might wait until Tuesday and see how it runs out of curiosity.
 
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