- Feb 13, 2016
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Hi and thanks in advance for your help!
I am looking to upgrade my 4yo gaming PC as it has been significantly falling behind in performance with newer games.
My current specs:
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 945
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Memory: 9GB DDR3
Display: 1920x1080
Mainboard: ASUSTeK M4A785TD-M EVO, Chipset AMD 785G and x16 PCI-Express
I don't have the biggest budget (~700€) and was hoping to get away with just upgrading my GPU and CPU. I've read that newest games get most of their performance through the GPU, and one merely needs a CPU to keep up and not bottleneck. I'm certainly no hardware pro and was hoping to get some advice here.
I've been eyeing the GTX 970 as a GPU. I'm pretty certain my current CPU would reduce it's performance significantly and have been looking into CPUs and just read the Intel Core i5-4690 would be a good choice to go with the GTX 970.
My questions: is the CPU/GPU combination good? Performance wise, is the GTX 970 a good choice or would I have to upgrade again in a year or two to keep up with newest games? I'm fairly clueless about mainboards and so far only read that it needs a x16 slot to run the GTX 970; is my mainboard otherwise sufficient or are there other things to consider?
I'm new to this forum and hardware technicalities in general, so please let me know if I posted wrong or additional information is needed! Thank you very much for your help!
I am looking to upgrade my 4yo gaming PC as it has been significantly falling behind in performance with newer games.
My current specs:
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 945
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Memory: 9GB DDR3
Display: 1920x1080
Mainboard: ASUSTeK M4A785TD-M EVO, Chipset AMD 785G and x16 PCI-Express
I don't have the biggest budget (~700€) and was hoping to get away with just upgrading my GPU and CPU. I've read that newest games get most of their performance through the GPU, and one merely needs a CPU to keep up and not bottleneck. I'm certainly no hardware pro and was hoping to get some advice here.
I've been eyeing the GTX 970 as a GPU. I'm pretty certain my current CPU would reduce it's performance significantly and have been looking into CPUs and just read the Intel Core i5-4690 would be a good choice to go with the GTX 970.
My questions: is the CPU/GPU combination good? Performance wise, is the GTX 970 a good choice or would I have to upgrade again in a year or two to keep up with newest games? I'm fairly clueless about mainboards and so far only read that it needs a x16 slot to run the GTX 970; is my mainboard otherwise sufficient or are there other things to consider?
I'm new to this forum and hardware technicalities in general, so please let me know if I posted wrong or additional information is needed! Thank you very much for your help!
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