- Oct 9, 2015
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I have a Studio XPS 9000 435T, circa early 2009, with an i7-975 extreme edition processor running at 3.33, 12 G of 1066 ram, an upgraded boot hard drive to 1 terabyte Samsung 850 SSD running Windows 10, 2 additional drives in Raid 1 configuration at 2TB and an ATI Radeon HD 5870 video card driving a 30" Dell Ultrasharp U3011 2560x1600 Dell 30" display port monitor, I upgraded my PSU to a EVGA Supernova 1050 GS 80+Gold 1050W.
I am thinking of upgrading my Graphics card but don't want to waste money by buying more card than my system and CPU can use. My original thought is GTX 960, GTX 970. I do quite a bit of video editing which is why I have so much storage, will be moving to 4K editing. Also, with gaming, I can't currently run in "Ultra" mode and I am having to optimize down the graphics at my screen resolution in StarCraft II.
In addition to the GTX 960, 970, I considered the Radeon R9 390 but hear it is noisy and hot, a quiet system is important where my computer is located though I plan to move to 4K gaming.
Or should I just chuck the system, salvage my recent upgrades for a new build and write this off as unworkable for the cost of upgrades.
I am thinking of upgrading my Graphics card but don't want to waste money by buying more card than my system and CPU can use. My original thought is GTX 960, GTX 970. I do quite a bit of video editing which is why I have so much storage, will be moving to 4K editing. Also, with gaming, I can't currently run in "Ultra" mode and I am having to optimize down the graphics at my screen resolution in StarCraft II.
In addition to the GTX 960, 970, I considered the Radeon R9 390 but hear it is noisy and hot, a quiet system is important where my computer is located though I plan to move to 4K gaming.
Or should I just chuck the system, salvage my recent upgrades for a new build and write this off as unworkable for the cost of upgrades.
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