I have a quandary and I need assistance. Back in 2013, I built a gaming HTPC and have been quite satisfied with it. I did not see strain in the system until Tomb Raider this past winter, but felt I finally needed an upgrade once I was playing Deus Ex Mankind Divided which really seems to push my system. Even with the graphical fidelity turned down. Here are the basics of my system as I had built it:
AMD FX-4350 Processor
AS Rock 970 Motherboard
2 x 4 GB RAM
AMD Radeon HD 7850 2 GB card
Corsair 600W Power Supply
Nothing in the system is broken, everything works fine, but I felt after three years I needed to boost the PC performance, but did not want to break the bank. One (expensive) lesson I learned is once you put a CPU and a Motherboard together, together they stay. I had decided to go with a full upgrade of the guts of the PC, and here is what I came up with and ordered
AMD FX-8350 Processor
MSI Gaming MB
2 x 8 GB RAM
AMD R9 380X 4 GB Graphics Card
Corsair 750w power supply
Most of the parts came in, and I started to go through the process of piecing the PC back together when I found a significant problem. The R9 card I orders (XFX card) came in about an inch or half an inch too long for the HTPC case I have. I am in the process of returning it, but now I feel I am in a pickle. I need to find a card that us under 9" in length to fit in the Chassis, and about 8" is ideal. But I need a card that is enough of an upgrade to be worth spending a couple hundred dollars on it. Or given my current limitations, should I just continue to use the 7850?
I did find a GTX 960 2GB card that would fit my space requirements. But it seems spec wise to be fairly comparable to the HD 7850 I currently have.
AMD FX-4350 Processor
AS Rock 970 Motherboard
2 x 4 GB RAM
AMD Radeon HD 7850 2 GB card
Corsair 600W Power Supply
Nothing in the system is broken, everything works fine, but I felt after three years I needed to boost the PC performance, but did not want to break the bank. One (expensive) lesson I learned is once you put a CPU and a Motherboard together, together they stay. I had decided to go with a full upgrade of the guts of the PC, and here is what I came up with and ordered
AMD FX-8350 Processor
MSI Gaming MB
2 x 8 GB RAM
AMD R9 380X 4 GB Graphics Card
Corsair 750w power supply
Most of the parts came in, and I started to go through the process of piecing the PC back together when I found a significant problem. The R9 card I orders (XFX card) came in about an inch or half an inch too long for the HTPC case I have. I am in the process of returning it, but now I feel I am in a pickle. I need to find a card that us under 9" in length to fit in the Chassis, and about 8" is ideal. But I need a card that is enough of an upgrade to be worth spending a couple hundred dollars on it. Or given my current limitations, should I just continue to use the 7850?
I did find a GTX 960 2GB card that would fit my space requirements. But it seems spec wise to be fairly comparable to the HD 7850 I currently have.
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