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    Upgrading Rig Questions - is it worth it?

    I'm looking to upgrade my rig as it’s a few years behind, it currently looks like this:

    i5 2500K
    AUSUP8Z68-V Pro
    16GB Corsair Vengeance
    MSI 970 GTX

    Will most likely get:

    i7 8700K
    ASUS PRIME Z370-P
    16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz DDR4
    MSI GeForce GTX 1070 GAMING X 8GB GDDR5 VR Ready Graphics Card, 1920 Core, 1582 MHz GPU, 1771 MHz Boost, Twin Frozr VI

    I’ll keep my SSD’s and Corsair 700W PSU.

    A few questions on this however, there isn’t a huge difference in price from the above 1070 to a MSI 1080 Aero, only difference in power is the MSI 1070 has higher clock speeds but a couple of hundred less cuda cores!?

    SCAN also does their pre OC’d trio but which has the same RAM, MOBO as above but the i7 is replaced with the i5 but is OC’s to 4.8Ghz, was thinking maybe that too as it would be a little cheaper.

    It’s used just for gaming at 1080p and wont be upgrading for another 5-10 years.

    I have about £1k give or take, never really liked AMD so wouldn’t entertain their stuff.

    Last thing..... HEXUS forum users used to get free delivery on SCAN orders, is that still a thing?

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    Re: Upgrading Rig Questions - is it worth it?

    If you're gaming at 1080p you really don't need to upgrade yet. However, you could just go for the 1070 and save your money, because I doubt the 2500k will bottleneck games enough to be noticeable at that res.
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    Re: Upgrading Rig Questions - is it worth it?

    Whats the price difference between the 1070 and 1080 you were looking at? If its £50 - £100 and you can stretch to it I would say go for the 1080 as it will give you more performance in the tank for the longer term.

    Be mindful that the 2xxx series cards are about to come out so the prices of the 1xxx series GPU's might start to come down some more.

    These days AMD are a viable option, especially in the CPU space. Very competitive on price but it depends on what your use is going to be, if it's browsing and gaming then Intel is probably the way to go if cost isn't particularly an issue but if you use it for other things that take advantage of cores / threads then AMD would be the way to go.

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    Re: Upgrading Rig Questions - is it worth it?

    Quote Originally Posted by Spreadie View Post
    If you're gaming at 1080p you really don't need to upgrade yet. However, you could just go for the 1070 and save your money, because I doubt the 2500k will bottleneck games enough to be noticeable at that res.
    My wife would be pleased with that answer! I like to use reshade and lots of graphics mods when playing and often see the CPU working 99-100%. Thought the new i7 or i5 may help with that?

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    Re: Upgrading Rig Questions - is it worth it?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kanoe View Post
    Whats the price difference between the 1070 and 1080 you were looking at? If its £50 - £100 and you can stretch to it I would say go for the 1080 as it will give you more performance in the tank for the longer term.

    Be mindful that the 2xxx series cards are about to come out so the prices of the 1xxx series GPU's might start to come down some more.
    I can stretch to the extra if I'm going to see results back on the 1080. It's just that when I compare the 1070 above card to the MSI 1080 aero the clock speeds are better on the 1070.

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    Re: Upgrading Rig Questions - is it worth it?

    Quote Originally Posted by nerdgeek View Post
    My wife would be pleased with that answer! I like to use reshade and lots of graphics mods when playing and often see the CPU working 99-100%. Thought the new i7 or i5 may help with that?
    What games are you playing?? Is it Fallout 4 with an ENB??

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    Re: Upgrading Rig Questions - is it worth it?

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    What games are you playing?? Is it Fallout 4 with an ENB??
    Elite Dangerous with Reshade SweetFX

    Farming Sim 17 ReShade plus texture replacements

    GTA V NaturalVision and other textures


    I also forgot to mention I run triple screens 5760 x 1080.

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    Re: Upgrading Rig Questions - is it worth it?

    Quote Originally Posted by nerdgeek View Post
    Elite Dangerous with Reshade SweetFX

    Farming Sim 17 ReShade plus texture replacements

    GTA V NaturalVision and other textures


    I also forgot to mention I run triple screens 5760 x 1080.
    These days AMD are a viable option, especially in the CPU space. Very competitive on price but it depends on what your use is going to be, if it's browsing and gaming then Intel is probably the way to go if cost isn't particularly an issue but if you use it for other things that take advantage of cores / threads then AMD would be the way to go.

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