- Feb 4, 2015
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I bought my computer ~3 years ago, and I haven’t replaced any of the parts since then (except I added an SSD). Now I am noticing lackluster performance in most recent AAA games, and I am not meeting the recommended specs in pretty much all big upcoming games, and even missing the min. specs in a few. I want to be able to run the latest AAA games, so I am looking to upgrade my processor and my graphics card, but I can’t afford to buy both at the same time, so I was wondering which one to get and install first.
For the processor I plan on buying this: Intel Core i5-4690K Processor 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 BX80646I54690K
For the graphics card, I plan on buying an Nvidia GTX 970.
I know there are different brands of manufacturers for each model of GPU, but I don’t really know how to choose between them. I think I would get the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming GDDR5 Pcie Video Graphics Card, 4GB, but I just glanced at it, and I don’t really know what the differences between the other versions are. Which version/model of the GTX 970 would you recommend?
So which would have a bigger impact gaming performance wise, and would either of them be bottlenecked/ incompatible with what is in my computer right now? Are these two parts sound choices to upgrade to, and will they stay current for upcoming AAA pc games for a decent amount of time?
Here are my PC Specs:
Case Fans: Noiseblocker Mutliframe High-Performance Ultra Silent Fans
Processor: AMD 3.3GHz FX-6100 Hex-Core Processor
Graphics Card: Single 1GB GDDR5 AMD RADEON HD 7770 1GHz Edition
Memory: 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz (2x 4GB) Dual Channel Memory
System Cooling: ORIGIN FROSTBYTE 120 Sealed Liquid Cooling Systems
Power Supply: 500 Watt Corsair CX500 PSU
Motherboard: ASUS M5A99X (SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.0)
SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 2.5" 120GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Hard Drive One: 1TB SATA 6.0Gb/s, 7200RPM, 32MB Cache HDD
Operating System: Genuine MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit Edition
For the processor I plan on buying this: Intel Core i5-4690K Processor 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 BX80646I54690K
For the graphics card, I plan on buying an Nvidia GTX 970.
I know there are different brands of manufacturers for each model of GPU, but I don’t really know how to choose between them. I think I would get the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming GDDR5 Pcie Video Graphics Card, 4GB, but I just glanced at it, and I don’t really know what the differences between the other versions are. Which version/model of the GTX 970 would you recommend?
So which would have a bigger impact gaming performance wise, and would either of them be bottlenecked/ incompatible with what is in my computer right now? Are these two parts sound choices to upgrade to, and will they stay current for upcoming AAA pc games for a decent amount of time?
Here are my PC Specs:
Case Fans: Noiseblocker Mutliframe High-Performance Ultra Silent Fans
Processor: AMD 3.3GHz FX-6100 Hex-Core Processor
Graphics Card: Single 1GB GDDR5 AMD RADEON HD 7770 1GHz Edition
Memory: 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz (2x 4GB) Dual Channel Memory
System Cooling: ORIGIN FROSTBYTE 120 Sealed Liquid Cooling Systems
Power Supply: 500 Watt Corsair CX500 PSU
Motherboard: ASUS M5A99X (SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.0)
SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 2.5" 120GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Hard Drive One: 1TB SATA 6.0Gb/s, 7200RPM, 32MB Cache HDD
Operating System: Genuine MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit Edition
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