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keep the card or upgrade it

cichy1012cichy1012 Member UncommonPosts: 347
in Hardware
OK I'm going from an AMD 8350, 8gb of corsair vengeance pc15000 an Asus mobo sabertooth 990fx and a gigabyte 7950HD 3gb card. SSD hardrive.

Now Im moving to Intel I7-4790 with
An Asus sabertooth z97 ..gskill Trident pc19200 x, 8gb, noctua nh-d15cooler, larger ssd drive.

My question is I wanted to get the gtx 970 video card by gigabyte, or is it worth the upgrade over the gigabyte 7950 HD that i own. I have 27 inch led monitor BTW.

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  • GdemamiGdemami Member EpicPosts: 12,342

    Keeping the CPU and upgrading VGA will provide significantly higher performance improvement than upgrading CPU only.

    Unless you need that CPU power for something specific or you just "want that chip", I do not see a point in CPU upgrade.

  • cichy1012cichy1012 Member UncommonPosts: 347
    So what your saying is the 4790 intel and faster memory offers no improvement over the and 8350?
  • RidelynnRidelynn Member EpicPosts: 7,383

    That depends on what specifically your trying to improve.

    An i7 will game faster than a 8350, sure.
    A 970 will game faster than a 7950, sure.
    The faster memory will do almost nothing for you.

    But if your trying to run games at 1080p, in a very generic case, your talking about... 85FPS vs 110FPS. Sure, it's a bigger number, but it's all over 60, so does it matter so much? You can come up with some corner cases and some rediculous settings where one won't get to 60FPS but the other will, but it's a question of if those corner cases are what you are trying to do, or even make sense or matter (like 16xFSAA vs FXAA or something)

    Here are some real-world benchmarks of a 970 vs 7950 - it's a fairly substantial upgrade. Almost, but not quite, double the performance.

    http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1033?vs=1355

  • cichy1012cichy1012 Member UncommonPosts: 347
    Well than maybe I'll just go to 16 GB on my current setup and grab a gigabyte gtx 980? I know the 16gb is overkill but why not?
  • GdemamiGdemami Member EpicPosts: 12,342

    Originally posted by cichy1012

    So what your saying is the 4790 intel and faster memory offers no improvement over the and 8350?

    FX-8350 is sufficient to play any game, what will bottleneck you is graphics card so you gain way more if you upgrade that instead of CPU.

  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,531
    Why are you looking to upgrade?  If there's some particular thing that your current computer just doesn't do well enough, then that should point toward what you need to upgrade.  And if your current computer is plenty good enough at everything, then why upgrade?  Wait until there's something that it isn't good enough at.  That could easily be years away, by which time there will be much better upgrade options available.
  • cichy1012cichy1012 Member UncommonPosts: 347

    Im just going to get a

     GTX 980
    250 gb SSD  which is double then what i have
    8 more gig of the same memory ( i know 16 gb is over kill buy why not)

    and Quizz its because my wife insists I upgrade almost yearly. Its kind of a present. :)

  • RidelynnRidelynn Member EpicPosts: 7,383

    Originally posted by cichy1012
    Im just going to get a GTX 980250 gb SSD  which is double then what i have8 more gig of the same memory ( i know 16 gb is over kill buy why not)and Quizz its because my wife insists I upgrade almost yearly. Its kind of a present. :)

    Oh that has to just suck - sorry dude (/s)

    980 is a monster

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