Well, i can't decide what to buy. First of all my current specs are: AMD Athlon X4 880K,MSI R7 260X 2GD5 OCV1, 8GB DDR3 and my monitor is SAMSUNG SyncMaster 205BW (20",1680x1050,5ms GTG). I have money for 1050ti,rx 470/570 but also i can get a monitor with 75Hz,24" screen,full hd and 1ms response time i really don't know what should i go for. If i buy a new graphics card i will be able to run some games on better details and higher fps. If i buy a new monitor the games will be much smoother thanks to the response time and it will look better thanks to higher resolution. What should i go for?
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Should i buy a new monitor or graphics card ?
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dotas1
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You should buy a better CPU. I wouldn't consider a GPU or a monitor before that upgrade. It's almost certain that your CPU will bottleneck your 1050Ti/rx470.
make sure you also got the proper PSU and not some crappy unknown low wattage one.
make sure you also got the proper PSU and not some crappy unknown low wattage one.
For the money i've got i can't upgrade to a new cpu. The 880k is the best on FM2+. Also the FM2+ socket is "dead" (no more cpu's are going to release on this socket). So if i want to upgrade i would probably go for i3 on the 1151 socket. I would need to buy the cpu and a new motherboard. Well, i can afford that with the my money i've got.But i need to buy a new memory aswell because the i3 does not support DDR3 memory. So i can afford cpu and the motherboard but i don't have enough for the DDR4 memory. And i've got EVGA 500W with 80 plus so i think you got nothing to worry about....
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Can't just limit it to unknown brands. Some brands can have great units on their high end PSUs and have time bombs on their low end. Some can be reputable, say in cases, and be pure fire hazards in PSUs. Name alone, and to a degree price (sale prices, close-out prices, etc. can make an otherwise good and fair to expensive PSU cheap and affordable) cannot tell you how good or bad a unit is... but sticking with known PSU brands that are good can help considerably, agreed on that aspect.
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You can also look at the low-end of Ryzen, especially if you start looking at an i5 or above. or when they finally hit the market the Ryzen based APUs and Ryzen 3 series. You can upgrade your GPU, and you will see a difference, especially for games that are GPU bound. However, as stated, some games won't see much improvement since they are CPU bound.
On a personal note, if I couldn't afford the CPU upgrade, I'd still do the GPU upgrade over upgrading monitors at this point. The higher resolution would slow the GPU down further anyway. (I wouldn't go higher than you mentioned until you can replace the CPU, Motherboard, and RAM though... and maybe the PSU too, depending on age and quality.)
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shrapnel_indie is correct but I can also add that you can go with a g4560 that has very close performance with an i3 7th gen.
Something like this:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qyvfcc
Something like this:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qyvfcc
Well, I'd say neither monitor nor GPU, save up for a more modern platform first.
That said - a monitor upgrade in terms of size (not concerned about the refresh or response time) might be worthwhile just because a bigger monitor would be more comfortable to view for extended periods. I've recently upgraded my monitor, partially for work purposes (widescreen at home is definitely better than the dual-22-inch-1080p setup at work), and partly because bigger works better for my not-as-good-as-they-once-were eyes.
The resolution's a bit much for my aging graphics card, but I can turn down settings, or have the resolution even turned down some, should the need arise. I play somewhat older games, though.
TL;DR - On a technical level, I think you should save up to buy a new MB/CPU/RAM (or just MB/CPU if you get a not-quite-latest-combo that works with DDR3) first. From an eye-comfort level, I'd go with the bigger monitor, knowing that you may need to turn down settings on games to deal with the higher resolution.
EDIT: my son's computer runs a Haswell Pentium G3220 processor, and an R7 250E video card - his video card has a little less power than yours, but he's able to run a number of games at 1080p with medium settings. However, these are somewhat older games. Think Portal 2, Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel, etc.
That said - a monitor upgrade in terms of size (not concerned about the refresh or response time) might be worthwhile just because a bigger monitor would be more comfortable to view for extended periods. I've recently upgraded my monitor, partially for work purposes (widescreen at home is definitely better than the dual-22-inch-1080p setup at work), and partly because bigger works better for my not-as-good-as-they-once-were eyes.
The resolution's a bit much for my aging graphics card, but I can turn down settings, or have the resolution even turned down some, should the need arise. I play somewhat older games, though.
TL;DR - On a technical level, I think you should save up to buy a new MB/CPU/RAM (or just MB/CPU if you get a not-quite-latest-combo that works with DDR3) first. From an eye-comfort level, I'd go with the bigger monitor, knowing that you may need to turn down settings on games to deal with the higher resolution.
EDIT: my son's computer runs a Haswell Pentium G3220 processor, and an R7 250E video card - his video card has a little less power than yours, but he's able to run a number of games at 1080p with medium settings. However, these are somewhat older games. Think Portal 2, Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel, etc.
This does not look bad.... I have a MicroATX case so i can't use that mobo. Can you recommend me a matx one? But i still don't see the point of this the performance difference from 880k will not be that big. 880k will be even better in some multithreaded applications/games. Only point of this i see is the upgrade path. So i will gain almost nothing for my money.
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https://pcpartpicker.com/list/TMyQ9W
this is with matx.
This is not picked to have exceptional performance. It's picked because it uses new hardware with new technologies and later you can upgrade just the CPU to 7th or 8th gen i processors (except k's).
this is with matx.
This is not picked to have exceptional performance. It's picked because it uses new hardware with new technologies and later you can upgrade just the CPU to 7th or 8th gen i processors (except k's).
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I would make one correction. You *can* use CPUs with the k suffix (i.e. i7-7700k or i5-7600k) with any 200 series board (same with 100 series if the BIOS has been updated for, and the motherboard supports it.) You just can't take advantage of the unlocked multiplier, which to many is a waste of a CPU, if the board isn't a Z series.
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