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Captain Yossarian posted:I don't game a ton on my PC anymore, but I like to keep current, especially if it's something I can't get on console. That being said, what would be a reasonable upgrade to my gtx 970? I'm on 1080p for the foreseeable future, but I suppose I could always get a big tax return or bonus from work and build a whole new rig... At 1080p, you could go for a RX 480, or a GTX 1060, for a mild performance boost and DX12/Vulkan support. But I'd advise against it, as a 970 is still good for almost anything at 1080p.
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illestG posted:I just wanted to throw this out there to see if anyone had any suggestions. Last week, I managed to back up all my stuff and reformat my hard drive with a fresh copy of Window 7. Before that, my computer was so slow I could hardly surf the web. Now I'm back to playing Half Life 2 Death Match. It's like a brand new computer again. So I was wondering, with my current specs, what would make sense to upgrade? I legitimately have no idea about the current hardware game, so I was wondering if one of you nice folks could point me in some sort of direction. To be frank, everything you have is super ancient and, budget permitting, should opt for a totally new build.
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logikv9 posted:Heyo thread. Finally getting around to upgrading my motherboard / CPU, because otherwise I'm still running my i7 920 from 2008-2009 If you're just gaming, you can definitely drop down to 16GB of DDR4-3000.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Right now? No. Buttcoiners have spiralled GPU prices into the goddamned stratosphere, and while it's certainly possible to get a 1060 now for MSRP, you pretty much have to get lucky or stab someone who's camping out in your local electronics store since he's got Skippy the Stock Boy on his payroll. Also, RAM prices are at a high-water mark at the moment, and the DRAM producers seem to be enjoying the spoils of that, so prices aren't set to go down until sometime in 2018. Lastly, Intel's panic at AMD finally putting out something that in its second revision could prove to be something that's a credible threat to them means we're going to see consumer-focused six-core processors sooner rather than later, but this means the Z270 board will be the singlemost short-lived, least-upgradable chipset platform I think Intel's ever put out, unless the rumor is true that Coffee Lake will use Z370 and Cannonlake will use Z390.  Is it just 1060s/1070s that are being hoarded, or 1080Tis too? I'm thinking of upgrading my system later this year.
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, here's why it's really hard to put together a custom system right now:
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BIG HEADLINE posted:ASUS and ASRock are generally good regardless. Gigabyte and MSI have too many horror stories about support and Gigabyte in particular about cutting corners on build quality for me to suggest them in anything other than a "build for bottom dollar" build, and even there ASRock generally has them beat on price, quality, and board support. I've never heard anything bad about MSI's support, while I've heard tons of bad things about ASUS'. Though I can also vouch for ASRock. EVGA is also making motherboards now too, and though I don't know how good the boards themselves are, EVGA's customer support is top-notch.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I have this monitor, is the 1080 GTX still the end all for maxing out 1080p? I'm away from home and can't remember which CPU I have, though I know it's an LGA1150 i5 of some kind, and I'm running a 970 GTX. Is there a cheaper solution than the 1080 GTX for ensuring 144+ FPS at all times? At 1080p 144Hz, a GTX 1070 will be enough for the foreseeable future.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I usually go for ASUS, have any other brands gone up in quality? ASUS, MSI, and EVGA are the usual suspects and are still all good. Zotac has also made some good offerings in the past couple years.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:It should also be noted that that's the Cryorig H7, the smaller of their three tower-style HSFs. Only the M9 unit is smaller Now imagine putting it on top of a tiny mini-ITX motherboard like I did. 
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Are there any cases out there with particularly exceptional dust filtering?
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Didn't Alan Wake have support for 8-core CPUs way back when?
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orange juche posted:There really isn't a wealth of SFF options in that particular form factor (horizontal A/V receiver style) I can think of perhaps 2-3 cases total that would work. I have this case, and yeah it's real sharp looking and pretty quiet, but it's pretty big for an mITX case and the airflow isn't as good as it looks because there's practically no cable management. Neo_Crimson fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Mar 30, 2019 |
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