How much better is this build than my current one

Sultan_Shebli · May 6, 2016

Hey. I want to buy a new one and give my current pc to my younger brother

My current:

CPU: i5 -4670k CPU @ 3.40GHZ
GPU: sapphire r9 290 tri-x OC 4gb
Power supply: GX2 pro 750W
Motheboard: GiGabyte H87-Hd3
Ram: HYPERX 8GB ram
SSD: samung evo 850 250gb
HD: Seagate 1TB Desktop HDD

The one i'm willing to buy:

http://computerpad.ae/product/cp-midrange-i7-white-wizard-skylake-build-with-btwifi/

Note that this one costs 1764$, and i'm not sure if its worth it or not? like how much is this build worth? and is it better than my current one?

Thanks.

lodders · May 6, 2016

For gaming, you probably won't be able to tell the difference.

If you are an amateur film maker and you need to do 3D rendering or video encoding, the i7 will be 40% quicker than your old i5.

IMHO, best value for money CPU and mobo at the moment is the one I have - see signature

Archaic59 · May 6, 2016

It would be very expensive for United States. I know the exchange rate for UAE but I don't know if it's a good value for you or not. If it's only for gaming an i5 CPU would be enough. They parts list does show very good quality items.

Archaic59 · May 6, 2016

Your current system is very good. What more do you want from it?

Sultan_Shebli · May 6, 2016

lodders :

I'm only going to use it for gaming. What about upgrading my current build to get better performance? what can i upgrade?

Sultan_Shebli · May 6, 2016

Archaic59 :

I'd like to run the upcoming games at ultra settings. I don't like fps drops that i'm getting in GTA V atm.

Archaic59 · May 6, 2016

Sultan_Shebli :

A CPU upgrade won't change much. Nvidia are releasing new, very powerful video cards (Pascal series) sometime in the next month and may be the answer to your needs but I don't know when they would be available to you.

ledhead11 · May 6, 2016

I'm more an NVidia guy but its all the same right now because both of 'em are about start releasing the next wave and both sides of the fence are looking pretty good.

1. Upgrade your GPU to what suits you best. Until games really start using that stacking ram thing that DX12/mantle/vulcan is supposed to do, even 1080p at Ultra will stutter or drop frames w/ 4gb with games like GTA5 or anything that really has high res textures/shading. To be safe and not wait for the DX12 thing, just get a newer card w/ at least 6-8gb and be done with it for awhile and that will help w/ current and future games until this mantle/vulcan thing becomes worth caring about. Faster clocks/larger vram=guaranteed 1080p 60-144hz and might get you into 4k 60hz.

2. I didn't see what kind of CPU cooler you have, but perhaps upgrade that and try to OC closer to 4.00ghz

3. I don't know what speed that memory is, but try to be around the 1866mhz range and upgrade to 16GB for future proofing. Most games are hanging around 2-4 but I've seen some around 6 which cuts it close to that 8 you have right now.

4. Large SSD's are dropping in price, you may want to consider getting one for your games. That can improve load times(I had a pair of seagate 500gb in raid0 and GTAV took forever to load, switched to 850pros 500gb in raid0 and cut time in half) and gain a couple of frames to boot. A single SSD for games is plenty fast, I only did a raid because I do some video editing as well.

Follow these steps and you should be able to keep that rig cutting edge for closer to $1000 or less. The other plus is when you do finally do another upgrade some of these parts could be recycled towards it.

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