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Upgrade already???

It's a damn shame and I feel for you mate...

If only you'd gone to the General Hardware section and had the lads spec you up. They'd have sorted you out nicely for £1100. As you say, hindsight and all that.

Still, you could sell the card and put a bit on top for a decent upgrade :)
 
Underpowered? certainly not for some applications, an i7 and 16GB of RAM would make an awesome media editing PC or software Development machine. Just the wrong balance for gaming.

Hindsight is always 20/20 unfortunately, but I think some of us have build inbalanced PCs at some point in our hobbies, we just have to learn from it and do a little more research next time.

(The most unbalanced PC I have seen was my mates 266MHz CPU paired with 512MB of RAM about 15 years ago!)
 
It's a decent system Pauly, just needs a beastly GPU to make games amazing!

Buy a 970 and sell the 760, you will be out of pocket but not by a great amount!
 
I just assumed i7 was better than i5 lol. You know... PS4 is better than PS3, it's a higher number!!! :) Damn my ignorance. Well I am stuck with it now.
 
JOSH86 said:
Do some research before you drop big money on PC parts. The i7 & 16GB is overkill for gaming, an i5 and 8GB of RAM would be fine and the extra money you splashed on those parts could have gotten you a better GPU.
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Nail on the head mate. I bought my i5/8gb rig the back end of 2011 and it's still more than adequate for today's games at high settings. The only thing bottlenecking my system atm is my msi 7850, and that's only really on bf4 it struggles at high settings.
 
tbh it's a decent system, the 16GB memory will last you for years and so will that CPU if you decide to overclock it slightly. Yes the i5 is better for gaming but more and more games are taking advantage of more threads/cores so look at it as though you are future proofing yourself.

However as said the 760 isn't the fastest card around and will certainly struggle with the more demanding titles.

If you do want to upgrade then the 970 is currently a fantastic card.

To give you a rough idea, here is a brief comparison between the 760 and 970

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1355?vs=1038
 
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bdipauly said:
That's great information James, many thanks. I will make the upgrade.
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no probs

as said a 2nd hand 780 would also be a good choice, even if it is slightly slower than the 970, the 2nd hand price should help counter that.

Do some research on the different 970 cards before you buy straight away. The MSI, ASUS and Gigabyte G1 are the main three people tend to go for.
 
That CPU will last you for ages!! You've not made a bad decision at all.

I made the same investment in 2009 & all I had to do was keep up with the latest GPUs & my system is golden for games!

MSI 970 is a solid choice, choose this if you value low noise levels
Gigabyte 970 G1 is the fastest out of the box, but louder than the MSI

Happy gaming
 
Yeah I wouldn't be too disheartened because it's a great system and as others have mentioned above all that needs an upgrade is the GPU really.
 
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