Please help me replace my 7 year old i7 965x, 7950 and 6 GB ram PC.

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Roelio

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Dear Community,

for years I'm reading all your guys advice on hardware and I must thank you all! This is the best source for a tech guy <3

If you have some time I would like to hear your thoughts about upgrading my Gaming PC.

P6T DELUXE
Intel Core i7 965 @ 3.20GHz
6135MB - DDR3 SDRAM 6200MB/s
AMD Radeon HD 7950
60 hz 1920x1080 monitor

I did some overclocking to get more out of it and can play Witcher 3 and The Division with not that bad performance and graphics.. But I feel that the time has come to replace my 7 year old rig.

With all the new developments, like pascal, HBM2, 144 hz and higher resolution gaming I'm getting lost and probable wait for ever or make a wrong decision.

Looking at a Asus Rampage VII Hero, i7-4790k, GTX 970 and 2x 4GB 1866 for about 750 Euro this will be a cheap solution but won't help me in the long run I quess. Better invest in a MSi Gaming Z97 5, Gtx 980 Ti, i5-4690K and 16GB Ram for 1400 Euro? Or wait a year to see how thing wil develop. Also need to find out if I will really benefit from a new monitor with 120hz.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Greetings,
Roel
The Netherlands

 
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If you don't plan on playing at 1440p you should just get the GTX 970. I'm still running an OC'd i7 920 and playing everything mostly maxed at 1080p.

Honestly, the best upgrade I've ever made was to a SSD and a 40" HDTV. I don't think I could go back to 27". I have yet to find a HDTV that displays at 1440p so that's really my deciding factor for not upgrading. Good luck with your upgrade, whatever you decide to do.
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Well, there is no eason to replce a 280 with a 970, if you want to replace AMD with nVidia, then you should wait for the next gen because current nVidia gpus get a performance drop in DX12 while all AMD 7000+ get a boost. The reason for that is their compute power, which is also why bitcoin miners always choose them. Meanwhile, a better choice would be a skylake i5, less power usage and better performance for almost the same price. Also you'll need DDR4 ram which became almost as cheap as DDR3. And yes, you will benefit from a 120 Hz monitor, but if you want that rate at high or ultra, then you'll need a FuryX or 980ti.
 
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Thanks for the reply I only have a HD7950 don't know why I placed the 280 behind it lol. Copy past error XD

But yeah I want to go for a i5 this time
with a 980 ti if I'll buy one now. But I'm afraid it wil be not the smartest move because of the new architecture chips.
 
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If you don't plan on playing at 1440p you should just get the GTX 970. I'm still running an OC'd i7 920 and playing everything mostly maxed at 1080p.

Honestly, the best upgrade I've ever made was to a SSD and a 40" HDTV. I don't think I could go back to 27". I have yet to find a HDTV that displays at 1440p so that's really my deciding factor for not upgrading. Good luck with your upgrade, whatever you decide to do.
 
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I'm gonna go with a:

Asus Rampage VII Hero
i7-4790k, (4Ghz)
Corsair Dominator 2x 4GB 1866 Mhz (8GB totaal)
MSI Gaming GTX 970

This will cost me like 500 euro so I can wait for new technology and enjoy gaming for now.
 
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