upgrade time?

h@lf

h@lf

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Hi guys i plan to upgrade my rig a bit due to my birthday in Friday :)

at the moment i have

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 - overclocked to 4.6
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Intel Z68
XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver'
Antec Kúhler H2O 920 Series 4 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3K4/16GX)
Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT256M4SSD2)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 WindForce 3x OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

My plan for upgrade is

Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle
Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX24C11T3K2/16X)

any advise? (im using my computer for gaming)

Thank you
 
You might not notice any performance increase changing the RAM or CPU unless you bench, certainly not for gaming. A graphics card upgrade however would be a fantastic choice if you feel you need to the extra grunt? :)
 
this is gift for me from my family -they like to buy Samsung U28D590 28" 4K but i think its overkill my current system for gaming
 
I really wouldn't bother. A 2500k at 4.6Ghz is still more than enough for gaming. At a push maybe a new gpu if you really want to upgrade something.
 
so maby i can get this card?

Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK WorldWide Exclusive**
 
the only thing id upgrade is the Graphics card (GPU), especially if it's a gaming rig! processor and ram or anything else is not nearly as important as the GPU, also 4k monitors are very demanding on gpu's currently, there's not a single card solution that will work in a satisfactory manner at 4k, if you are getting a new monitor id advise perhaps upgrading to a 1440p monitor, as for graphics cards either a 290/x or a 780/Ti would be a good upgrade
 
1080p so my question is

Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK WorldWide Exclusive**

or something else for my rig
 
I would just go for a regular 290 with custom cooler which offers better fps/£ than a 290X, seems pretty daft to waste money on an 8GB graphics card which will never be able to make use of all the memory in the first place as well.
 
h@lf said:
1080p so my question is

Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK WorldWide Exclusive**

or something else for my rig
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That card isn't worth the money, considering you can (nearly) get 290(non-X) Xfire for the same money... That would give you +70%-80% performance over a single 290X (even that one).

Personally I don't see any issue with your current rig.

A 290 would only be a small improvement.
 
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