Upgrade Advice - ROG Swift & 970 SLI

[irish_villa]

My current build is a few years old, I’m in the market for a new Monitor & Graphics Card.

i5 2500k - O/C 4.2Ghz
8GB Corsair XMP 1600 DDR3
Asus Maximus Gene IV
ANTEC Kuhler H2O 620
750W CM EXTREME GX 80+ PSU
2GB MSI GTX560Ti TWINF2/OC
128GB CSSD-F120GB3-BK Force 3

I’ve been tempted to get the ROG Swift and a 970 SLI setup.

I’m just not sure that I would be bottlenecked by the CPU or hampered by by PCIe in SLI as it’s 2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x16 or dual x8)

Question is, should I really be looking to upgrade the Motherboard, CPU, Memory due to a possible decrease in performance or could I get away with it for another while yet.

Thanks…

[kalniel]

CPU won't bottleneck you in most cases for a good while yet. Also PCIe X8 isn't going to bottleneck either. Ditto memory. So you're good to go from that perspective!

970 sli is amazing performance. Question I'd say is what do you want from a monitor? After gsync/high refresh rates, or are you more interested in colour accuracy etc.? And what sort of size/resolution are you looking for? The ROG swift is fine, but we're also seeing 4k 144hz monitors start to appear, and gsync is still in early days.

[irish_villa]

I've no monitor at present, got x2 plasmas Samsung 60" and Panny 42" - can't really play all my games on those, only just controller based games via steam.

The other solution is to get a 24/27 inch gaming panel and a single 970, just game at 1080p and then wait until more panels come out.

It's good to know that my rig has some life left in it.

Thanks for the reply Kalniel!

[cloudlaws]

Must admit the ROG Swift does seem to have it all, great mounts, styling, small bezel and so much more. It provides fast refresh rate, great resolution, g-sync and a bunch of other nice features that make it a fantastic choice. Yes it isn't 4k and they may be coming out, but even so, the ROG Swift will still be an amazing monitor!

[mbrown839]

One thing to point out is that there is a very similar monitor to the ROG Swift coming out in April, the Acer Predator XB270HU which has largely the same specs but with an IPS panel. The downside is that it is about £90 more expensive and has 4ms GTG, so doesn't have 3DVision. If you don't care about 3DVision I'd seriously consider waiting and getting this instead.

[MrRockliffe]

Make sure your board supports SLI first! Being a maximum gene IV, I don't see why it wouldn't...