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cornstalkhands

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My specs as of now are:
Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor

Graphics card: GeForce GTX 660, 2048MB GDDR5, HDMI, DVI-I, DVI-D, DP SLI Ready Video Card

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-Z77-DS3H LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel

Case: Rosewill BLACKHAWK Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case, come with Five Fans, window side panel, top HDD dock

Memory: Crucial Ballistix sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory

Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Speakers: Logitech LS21 7 Watts RMS (FTC) 2.1 Stereo Speaker System

Monitor(2): Acer G236HLBbd Black 23" 5ms Widescreen LED Monitor 200 cd/m2 ACM 100,000,000:1 (600:1).

2nd HDD: Samsung 840 SSD 256GB

I use this computer for gaming and I'd like to know which part i should upgrade next for higher performance during gaming sessions. So should i get a intel 3770k or a gtx 770.
 
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Firstly, are you overclocked?

if you have overclocked the 2500k, then an upgrade to the 3770k will not show a major difference unless you do 3d modelling and other tasks like that. hyperthreading is not beneficial to many games, but in the future it may become more useful, as is shown by crysis 3

on the other hand, the 770 will give you a performance boost, as it is essentially a overclocked rebadged 680.

your system is fine as it is IMO, and should perform fine for a year or two with its current specs, however i think the 770 would be the better upgrade of the two
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RyanTH98

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I think you should get the gtx 770. Seeing as the next gen consoles are going to be coming out this year I would make sure your rig would be a lot better than console graphics.
 
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Firstly, are you overclocked?

if you have overclocked the 2500k, then an upgrade to the 3770k will not show a major difference unless you do 3d modelling and other tasks like that. hyperthreading is not beneficial to many games, but in the future it may become more useful, as is shown by crysis 3

on the other hand, the 770 will give you a performance boost, as it is essentially a overclocked rebadged 680.

your system is fine as it is IMO, and should perform fine for a year or two with its current specs, however i think the 770 would be the better upgrade of the two
 
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cornstalkhands

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No i am not overclocked
 
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not sure if were actually supposed to talk about overclocking on here, but have a go at it, just dont go overkill. change the speed in small increasing increments, and check stability. you may need an aftermarket cooler if you dont have one already.
that should prevent any CPU bottleneck for the GTX 770, not that a 2500k at stock is a bottleneck for anything

 
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