Upgrading gaming rig, looking for input

DaronMal · Nov 9, 2015

I built this rig in Dec. 2014: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/66HHFT

I recently got a new job so I've been able (with my birthday last week) to upgrade my PC to phase 2/3 of my gaming rig's final form.

Here is how it looks as of right now: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VQJLNG

My next big steps are to upgrade my CPU, GPU, and PSU.

This is what I'm looking to make it into as of right now: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/tVmdkL

I want this thing to never feel like it needs to chug again, I want everything I throw at it to run at least 60+ FPS on max settings. What would be recommended for my next step? Any/all input is accepted and looked at, don't be shy, I can take criticism. Thanks in advance!

theunliked · Nov 9, 2015

No point upgrading CPU. Its plenty. What you need now is a new gpu and sdd. What resolution are you going to game at and whats your budget?

DaronMal · Nov 9, 2015

theunliked :

I just have money burning in my pocket now that I have some, and I feel like if I were to upgrade to a 980, my CPU would bottleneck it from it's full potential. I do have the 500GB 850 EVO for my OS (Win 10) and I plan to sell my CPU/GPU/PSU if I were to get new ones. 1080p resolution, I don't see a need for 4k and stuff like that, at least not at this moment. I don't realyl have as budget, I dont plan on buying this stuff within the next like week or so, but over time as I have the money and feel comfortable my choices. Obvious I'm not stupid, I'm not going for a Titan, or some ridiculous 50 core CPU or something, but a reasonable high end gaming rig.

MarkW · Nov 9, 2015

Here is the thing that bothers me. You have a pretty solid video card now. Upgrading to the GTX 980 Ti is going to gain you some performance, but in 5 to 8 months, the newest GPU's should be on sale, and the same money you are going to spend to upgrade to that GTX 980 Ti would buy you a video card that is roughly 65% faster, will use lots less power, has at least double memory on it, possibly 4 times the memory (yes, 16GB is going to be on the highest tiered video cards), and, since these will be the first all new GPU's since DirectX 12 was finalized, they will have better support for it than the older cards that exist today. There will also be newer versions of Cuda and GCN, and other things that no current card has.

I know 5 to 8 months sounds like a long time, but it really isnt, especially since you already have a good card now. Also, in the next week, possibly tomorrow, AMD is going to be releasing a replacement for Catalyst (Crimson), and all new drivers for their video cards. This is something they have been working on for a year now. Wait till those come out, and see how things turn out on the benchmarks that will undoubtably come within a few days. You may very well gain some significant speed boosts.

DaronMal · Nov 10, 2015

MarkW :

Yeah, I know like, the 290 I got was really cheap, but I figured I wanted to get a head start on picking parts now with Black Friday/Cyber Monday approaching, if I have the chance for a cheap GPU, I'm taking it hands down. If the 980 Ti remains the running favorite (2nd place being just getting a 2nd 290) for a GPU and it goes on sale, I'll probably end up buying it just for the fun of it. What would you recommend? Waiting for a new line of GPU's?

I don't keep up on tech/hardware related news, but that sounds pretty neat, I'll have to check my FPS on some games to compare when that releases.

theunliked · Nov 10, 2015

DaronMal :

In no way will that cpu bottleneck the gtx980. It won't even with two of them in SLI. The i5 is one of the best gaming cpus. You definitely won't be needing an i7 in the near future.

If you are just going to be gaming in 1080p, there's really no need for an upgrade. As markw said, you should wait.
When the time comes that your rig isn't enough, you can get a better gpu.

Oh, and another thing, driver upgrades do help you gain some performance....but come on, its still the same gpu with the same parts in it. It isn't going to work magic.

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