Should I upgrade my pc or buy a new one?

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elick504

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CPU: i5 4460
GPU: GTX 970
RAM: 8GB
Storage: 1TB HHD
I'm looking into switching to 1440p gaming just not sure what would be the best option, upgrade or sell, or what graphics card would be the best. AMD or Nvidia. I'm on a bit of a budget I just want to be able to play Elite: Dangerous at Ultra at 1440p. Right now I can play it on ultra at 1080p at 60fps. Thanks!
 
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I wouldn't sell the entire thing. Your CPU should still be just fine. And selling the entire thing to get a new computer would end up with you in the hole with a virtually similar machine, if not worse. Your hardware isn't that far off the new gen mark. The only things that you would really need to upgrade to have it be up to snuff for QHD would be a better GPU for newer gen games, and more RAM for the heavier RAM requirement games (if you play them, 8GB should still be enough).

I would look for a 1440p monitor, and get that before you bother to do anything to the rest of your machine. Check how the machine runs at 1440p, and then go from there.
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What's the budget?
I'd upgrade the screen before you even bother looking at upgrading the machine. If you upgrade the screen and find that it's playable just save yourself the money.
As for the GPU; if the 970 isn't enough, the next upgrade for you is going to be a 1070.
 
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Hi,
It's likely the CPU won't be the bottleneck at 2560x1440.

Sometimes large client maps are an issue, but since you maintain 60FPS now it may not be. The CPU works slightly harder at 2560x1440 for more draw calls but my guess is a new CPU wouldn't help this game noticeably.

*So a better GRAPHICS CARD is what you want. I would not bother unless you got a GTX1070 as said. Nothing else will really matter (monitor of course).

But... will the game look much better at 2560x1440? If there's a lot of small test, or other lines that have noticeable "jaggies" (jagged edges) that even anti-aliasing can't completely fix the YES a higher resolution will help, but lots of "shooter" style games don't look hugely different.

I recently had a GTX680 (GTX970 is maybe 40% better?) and going to a GTX1080 was better in several games but it didn't change my experience greatly. I was frankly surprised at how even the most demanding games could be carefully tweaked in the settings to give me a great experience.

Several such as AC UNITY were pretty demanding though and needed more than 2GB of VRAM and weren't unplayable but the quality level is much better with my GTX1080 but again there's lots of games it's not a big deal. (some really, really demanding games coming 2017/18 though).
 
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I wouldn't sell the entire thing. Your CPU should still be just fine. And selling the entire thing to get a new computer would end up with you in the hole with a virtually similar machine, if not worse. Your hardware isn't that far off the new gen mark. The only things that you would really need to upgrade to have it be up to snuff for QHD would be a better GPU for newer gen games, and more RAM for the heavier RAM requirement games (if you play them, 8GB should still be enough).

I would look for a 1440p monitor, and get that before you bother to do anything to the rest of your machine. Check how the machine runs at 1440p, and then go from there.
 
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elick504

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Thanks everyone for getting back to me! I think I'm just going to upgrade instead of sell. Again thanks for all the advice. Really helped a lot. Think I'm gonna eventually go GTX 1070.
 
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