What would be a good upgrade?

Ginger-Menace · 6 Oct 2015 at 09:25

Hi All
specs are:
2500k O/C to 4.6
asus p8p67 pro M/B
12gb ram
1000w psu ( a good one cant rember what brand could be seasonic?)
7970 gpu

and several hdd and ssd.

i have been looking at the 390x cards, what would be a good upgrade to my system?im thinking ahead to when fallout 4 come out.

thanks for your help

GM

Gregster · 6 Oct 2015 at 10:04

The Asus Strix is a decent price for the 390X. Good build quality and nice and quiet.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-373-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=3059

Ginger-Menace · 6 Oct 2015 at 10:44

yea this is one i was looking at do you think my current set up will hold it back or bottle neck it? my monitor is 2560x1440, and i dont mind putting it down to 1080, which i have done in the witcher 3

Gregster · 6 Oct 2015 at 10:47

Ginger-Menace said:
yea this is one i was looking at do you think my current set up will hold it back or bottle neck it? my monitor is 2560x1440, and i dont mind putting it down to 1080, which i have done in the witcher 3

Nah, at 4.6 you will be fine with that card. If you went CF though you would start to see a bottleneck in some games.

Ginger-Menace · 6 Oct 2015 at 10:50

im concerned about the fact the m/b is only pcie 2.0. this wont be a problem?

stulid · 6 Oct 2015 at 10:51

You may want to make sure your boards BIOS is on the latest version to help it "see" the newer GFX card releases.

CyberCrow · 6 Oct 2015 at 10:51

No you wouldn't notice the difference when gaming.

Gregster · 6 Oct 2015 at 10:52

Ginger-Menace said:
im concerned about the fact the m/b is only pcie 2.0. this wont be a problem?

For benching, you would notice it but for gaming, mostly it won't even account for 1 fps difference between 2.0 and 3.0.

And good point Stulid. Make sure your BIOS is updated or you could well be running into black screens and no boots.

Ginger-Menace · 6 Oct 2015 at 10:55

i dont think my board has had a bios update in a long time, as far as im aware im on the latest

Gregster · 6 Oct 2015 at 10:57

Cool. There was many threads with your MOBO and newer GPUs that had no boot or other problems and switching to the latest BIOS solved it.

Ginger-Menace · 6 Oct 2015 at 11:03

boo stulid and greg! i was going to buy today! im going to wait and see about my bios ! thanks guys

Gregster · 6 Oct 2015 at 11:04

Ginger-Menace said:
boo stulid and greg! i was going to buy today! im going to wait and see about my bios ! thanks guys

Buy today and just flash the latest (if you haven't already) BIOS onto your MOBO. Takes all of 30 seconds

Ginger-Menace · 6 Oct 2015 at 11:08

are we sure there is even support for these newer graphics cards?

Gregster · 6 Oct 2015 at 11:12

We are sure.

Ginger-Menace · 6 Oct 2015 at 11:36

whats the different between the 390 and 390x, i can seem to see a difference apart from a saving of £50

Ginger-Menace · 6 Oct 2015 at 11:41

never mind i just got the 390x its only £50

nashathedog · 6 Oct 2015 at 12:08

Ginger-Menace said:
never mind i just got the 390x its only £50

Good move, For a 50 quid difference it's the better choice and you won't need to drop your res anymore which is good.

The 390x is close to Fury performance and I run all my games through vsr at 2560x1440 or 4k on my 1080p screen so you'll be great.

Ginger-Menace · 6 Oct 2015 at 12:25

hope my other hardware wont let it down. dont think i can stretch to a new system yet

Lokken86 · 6 Oct 2015 at 12:52

Ginger-Menace said:
hope my other hardware wont let it down. dont think i can stretch to a new system yet

No bother with that system. Very well balanced pc I'd say.

CyberCrow · 7 Oct 2015 at 11:12

Ginger-Menace said:
hope my other hardware wont let it down. dont think i can stretch to a new system yet

Stick with that 2500K, the 4770K was/is the worst upgrade ive done.

Don't get me wrong great cpu for programs, encoding an photoshop etc but for gaming ive noticed minor changes.

I had my 2500K @4.4 under water best chip i've had.