What to upgrade (if at all) for a new game coming out ...

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Im looking to play state of decay 2 (releasing in 2 months) at 1440p with good settings and record my sessions.

My spec is listed in my sig: basically a 2700k (only slightly OCed), 32 gigs ram (22 usable - other ram drive), and a 970gtx.

If I wanted to upgrade what could I upgrade that would let me do this effectively for the least amount or that would future proof my system for a bit.

Ideas:

- get another 970 and sli them? although I have never done this and not sure how this would work etc ...

- upgrade cpu but then I would probably need to upgrade a MB and ram and that sounds pricey. I'm wondering how those new ryzens (2) will work; but again that seems pricey for me atm.

- get a 1060 or a 1070 (used?) - Wow seems graphics cards have really increased in price - or other

these are my ideas ... any suggestions? or just wait for new tech or is my system decent enough for what I want to do?
 
I'm interested on your use case for the RAM drive. Does that have any real world benefit over using an SSD and letting the OS use the RAM for cache?

Whats your budget? If you upgrade your CPU go for i7-8700K, GPU 1070 minimum.
 
mrbazmondo said:
I'm interested on your use case for the RAM drive. Does that have any real world benefit over using an SSD and letting the OS use the RAM for cache?

Whats your budget? If you upgrade your CPU go for i7-8700K, GPU 1070 minimum.
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ya to be honest I dont use the ramdrive for anything special - kind of like a mini ssd that has really fast read/writes - so just throw some files on there that I need to access over and over or for example when doing some recordings Ill throw the record on there and then once I know its decent Ill throw it on my harddrive.

I would really like to do a whole cpu/mb/ram gpu upgrade but atm - trying to skimp. To be honest I think I have my cpu undervolted and dont even have it oced - I think I could start there.
 
I would be tempted to first get a 1070 and see what your system is like after that. A 1070 is twice as fast as your 970, so there will be a very real difference.
Thing is that there is no doubt the 2700k can be improved upon, but the cost is way higher than even a 1070 and the benefit will be less than the 1070. So try the 1070 first, see if it's enough for you.
 
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