What would you recommend I upgrade first?

beany_bot said:
Not wishing to go off topic but just how the hell does SLI actually work?
Do the cards talk to each other and say "OK, I'll deal with the lighting and AA here, you take the textures and water" "oh the water is getting a bit much for me, your not doing to much, fancy doing the water too?"

Just how does it work so well. Quite impressive really.

I'm hoping to get the Occulus rift when the consumer product is ready. I believe this will double the workload on the GPU as it is asking for two different images to be rendered at the same time, so I think a good time to "SLI" would be when I get the Occulus. (If I can afford all that!)
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Normally by AFR (alternate frame rendering) - "I'll draw this one, you start on the next"

Can also be SFR (split frame rendering) - "I'll draw over here, you draw over there"

Unfortunately it doesn't always work well, which is why in general people advise the fastest single card in your budget range, so e.g. one 980Ti over 2 970s.

Also, on original post... SSD is best upgrade by a long way! Doubling RAM is reasonable, better (& quieter) PSU would be a nice to have, I'd consider a nice quiet air cooler to replace the stock one to make it run quieter too personally but some people don't really care about a bit of fan noise.
 
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beany_bot said:
I am not looking to overclock anything. I wan't to avoid that at this stage. Yes I realise im speaking to people who probably do this on a daily basis and I see the irony of saying that in "overclockers forum". But Im not looking to do that at this stage.
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I said the same thing when I started out with my first gaming build... Im now running a 4690k @ 4.5Ghz :confused:

beany_bot said:
Yeah nothing "wrong" with my rig just now. just had it a few months now and starting to get "itchy feet" so to speak. Want to treat it to something new :)

Thanks.
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yip that's where it starts... im still going through the stage of "what can I buy next!!"

In all honestly though my next upgrade will be a higher end PSU Im running more or less the same machine as you but I have 16gb of ram and have over clocked my CPU and my 970 has a moderate overclock.. but my machine runs anything I throw at it so it does what I want.
I use an ssd as my system drive.. what a difference that made when I got one.
as said above you can clone youre system files over to the ssd so saves doing a full install

my upgrade list is PSU, faster ram, GPU ( once the newer ones are released) then ill go for an i7 chip

ive no plan to jump to skylake anytime soon.. I just don't see the price= performance ratio working out in my favor compared to what I have at present.
 
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blundaruss said:
Would it not make sense to upgrade the motherboard in the long run? I know it would mean replacing the ram and cpu at the same time but if you are going to upgrade them anyway why not get DDR4 Ram etc?
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pastymuncher said:
Because Skylake is ridiculously priced and offers bugger all over a 4690k.
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completely agree with pastymuncher on this.. I personally cant justify spending all that cash on a skylake set up compared to what I already have.
I would rather drop my cash on a 4790k CPU and increase the system I have. ( Im planning on this move next year )

the 4690k is not done for yet it still holds its own and there are still older chips out there being used fairly well in modern games with good results and I don't see these boys jumping to skylake anytime soon.
 
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beany_bot said:
Don't have SSD. more RAM would be affordable certainly. I would be a little hesitant to upgrade the GPU just puerly as it is quite a big expense. (Is there much money in selling my 970 second hand?).

As for my motherboard, this is some more detail about my rig. I think the motherboard is half decent. (had my friend help me pick the items for my build).
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The MSI 970 i have is fetching around £200 on fleabay, not bad really. I doubt i`ll upgrade mine until pascal now seeing as im on 1080 anyway. I suggest you get a SSD and another 8gb of RAM for now. That will make a nice upgrade for not much cost.
 
As above, SSD would be a big upgrade boost, RAM is cheap atm so a 16gb kit isnt too expensive and would be good in your rig.
 
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