Advice, upgrade my rig

Deputy Swan

Deputy Swan

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Hello, so this is what my rig is currently;

I7 4770k intel
32 gigs ram
asus Sabertooth z87 motherboard
graphic card is Nvida GTX 660
everything is set up with a external server grade cooling radiator and liquid it keeps it all cool

I want to upgrade it so I get better graphic performance, I experience lag occasionally in general like frame shuttering in BF4 and when i play squad, my HD is 2 Tera bites and all most full IDK if that had something to do with it?

any advise please, I have $600 budget to improve my set up
 
Evga 1070sc for $424 and change. Better performance than last Gen titan and more bang for your buck. If anything, a new video card would do you wonders
 
What Iguanidon said, get one of these boxes(with the contents inside, ofc):
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You wont be happy how the 660 preforms on BF1 . I had a 745 and it was barely enough to run the game. I got a 1060 and it runs the game great. I think bf1 game requirements is around that 660 but thats bare minimum.
 
If I was gaming more I would have gotten a 1080... but between 4-6 trips a month to Boston and only working 20 hours a week...can't be blowing money on non essentials especially since I don't have time to enjoy it.
 
Iguanidon said:
If I was gaming more I would have gotten a 1080... but between 4-6 trips a month to Boston and only working 20 hours a week...can't be blowing money on non essentials especially since I don't have time to enjoy it.
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Amen to that.
 
Usually goes normal, super clock, classified, FTW and then kingpin... slowest to fastest respectively. At least for evga.
 
Dont buy evga cards unless they come from the manufacture, alot of websites are still trying to push out the cards with the thermal pads missing from the vram to the public and those catch on fire. Honestly to me id just avoid them all tougher. ID go with the gigabyte full water card personaly. are you planing to add it to a custom loop tho?

as for
Deputy Swan said:
I see there is 7 different versions of the 1080? any advise on that


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814125869
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Some have blower style coolers some have water blocks and some are hybrid cards that cool the GPU and not the vram and some are completely fan cooled. Boost clock doesnt really matter if you plan to overclock. I think some versions have two 8 pin connectors so you can get more power to the card and some have only one 8pin again for overclocking. Mostly its what kind of cooling solution do you want to use and that will decided what kinda card you should buy also if you want LED's or not.


Oh btw might want to just wait the 1080TI will probably drop soon, might even be announced at CES 2017 (Q1 of this year). Also the 20 series will probably drop Q3 2017
 
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I've never had that issue. Been buying EVGA for years.

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Soulzz said:
I've never had that issue. Been buying EVGA for years.

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It's been an issue with the 10 series cards, excessively high heat and a few have melted ....air cooling obviously but yeah, get it direct and avoid the hassle.
 
I think I'll stick to the card that is still more than adequate until the next series comes out. If I am gaming more again by then.
 
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