MAID : In need for advices to upgrade my PC ($1000 budget)

abysse

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Hey guys,

I tried a french forum with no luck to get accurate advices, so'im refferring to the very pros.

Little Story short : I do crazy multitasking 15 hours a day on the PC and casual gaming (5 hours a week -> CS:GO) and I hate lags, latencies, low bob graphism which is a pure loss of time for me. I want my PC to display my windows even before i thought about it!


My current configuration was supposed to be a redundancy PC and became the first when buying a SSD because of OS reinstall :

CPU : i5 2500k -> lame 80% used all the time with spikes .. i7 860 -> 30% for almost the same usage (Hyperthreading required, Hexacore?)
GPU : ATI 7770 -> too slow, low graphism and latency (don't want ATI anymore)
RAM : 16 GB Gskill 1866 Mhz (excellent but not enough 24GB / 32 GB might be needed)
Motherboard : low bob Asus Z67 (it is okay but not enough USB ports even though i can live with usb hubs)
HDD : 500 GB SSD Samsung
HDD 2 : lamest HDD 5400 RPM ever, used for HDD cloning no need for more
Case : Advance $30 (led and all like it, cooling wise, guess it is okay)
Power Supply : OCZ 600 Watts

Screens :

1) 2560*1440 Retina 27" Dual DVI
2) 1920*1080 24" HDMI
3) square 19" VGA


Requirements : 3 screens (only the Retina to play on with full settings on CS : GO), so i thought about the GTX770 2GB version. (2Gb enough ?)

If have an old N9800GT with a dead fan that will be freed with the ATI 7770 that i'm going to put on my secondary PC (if it can serve any purpose for screen display)

My other problem is that i have a program named Actual Desktop manager which is subdviding my screens into different zone (just awesome), but when i launch the game it is laggy (here again the GPU issue)


I've never been a fan of overclocking because of lower life expectancy and caracterized noobness in the area. But if it can reduce the overall price tag, why not.

Giving all these details which you would more likely not care much for most of them, i'm opened to all kind of suggestion. Budget is flexible for true addition in the user experience, not the showing off side. (says the dude with leds on his wall mart case :p)

 
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you'll only need to upgrade your gpu since you are playing on 1440p/1080p. you'll need a gtx 760 or better for smooth 1080p performance. there is nothing wrong with your cpu or anything else really.

abysse

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Well, that was my thinking process about the CPU, as secondary PC 50% of use with spikes didn't bother me at all. But now that it is my primary PC, no.

My hidden question, does it worth take the i7 3770k or any Hyper threaded Sandy Bridge processor, or take the plunge in Haswell. I want my working tool to last for a couple of years at the very least.

RAM wise, i use 13.5 GB with spikes at 15.9GB and i don't even have all my apps installed just yet, but i can down the readyboost road with a USB 3 stick if i keep the motherboard.






 

nokiddingboss

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my opinion is that it is not worth it to spend more for just a wee bit better performance. not even for a haswell. just oc the proc if you want an extra boost. but if 5~10% improvement does sound good to you, then by all means go ahead and upgrade. might as well go with haswell 4770k (a little bit pricier because you'll need a new board, too).
 

abysse

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Well your opinion defintily worth something, what a wise opinion, thanks!

I spent my night weighing what you said, the amount invested and the amount to be invested VS the gain.

Looks like i shouldn't have taken the i5 2500k in the first place, but now it doesn't worth much the upgrade from all the benchmarks i've seen. Sure, there is a gain but no revolution. (5-10% just like you said with 4770k)

On another end, i investigated the reason of my 80% instead of dumbly reading my keyboard and triggering the wallet over stupid reasons.

Looks like my ipad and this **** apple tech, was eating 50% on its own with 2 processes eating up 1 full core each... I removed the sync over wifi and i'm back at 20-30% (now we talk ;)). So, i'm going to get a cool FAn for overclocking to gain slightly in CPU power and finally enjoy the k.

RAM wise, i will carry the virtual machines on my other PC with 16gb of RAM as well and just get another screen.


GPU wise, GTX 770 seems the way to go and not something i'll regret in a couple of years, if i'm not mistaken.


To conclude thanks a ton for your straight opinion and not feeding a not needed need.
 

nokiddingboss

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yep, no problem. i wish i could say the same for me (i bought into the hype brought by haswell and paid a terrible and expensive price for it). i am just happy to let others know about it so that they wont make the same mistake as i did.
 

abysse

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Okay, thank you again Nokiddingboss.

After much considerations, I'm going with the following :

- ASUS GTX 760 2GB. GTX770 doesn't justify its price
- Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO so i can push my CPU further and i believe i have a bottleneck CPU temp wise.
- Another 1440p screen which is thanks to you giving the budget freed with the removal of useless expenses.