Help me Upgrade my PC to a 4K Gaming PC Hello All at Guru3D I would like to upgrade my computer. However, I need your advice. What would you guys replace if you got a budget of 2500 CHF / dollars. my curent system: EVGA GTX 690 Intel i7 3930K @4.2ghz Kingston Technology DDR3 2400MHz 16GB Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 Asrock X79 Extreme4 Corsair AX1200 should i consider to sell the whole PC? hope you guys can help me out. Sorry for my English skills.
Tbh, you could keep your CPU doubt it'd be a bottleneck and then either get double Titan X's or two 390X's when they come out.
thank you for your response. yess i thought about buying 2 Titan X, but i need atleast 24gb of ram for one Titan x and on my Mobo fits only 32gb. hhmm..
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: PCI-Express-compliant motherboard with one dual-widthx16 graphics slot One 6-pin and one 8-pin PCI Express supplementary power connector Minimum 600 W or greater power supply 300 MB of available hard-drive space 24 GB system memory (48 GB or higher recommended) Microsoft Windows 8 and 8.1, Windows 7 or Windows Vista
Yeah lol, you could have DDR2 and it wouldn't matter. Hell you could put it in a PCI slot with a modification.
Never seen a video card actually require memory from the system! Have you thought about running a 295x? Costs less than 2 290's, and in the future you can add a second one. Maybe move your cpu to a board with ddr4 support. Go with SSD!
295X2 is a dual gpu and 4-way crossfire is not something you want to get into. Besides why get that when there's better available for a better price/performance?
System is fine, quad channel ram 6core 4.2ghz cpu with lanes to run non fake x2 16lane pcie on the cards. (for dat exteme 1% gain) x99 is 5000 exclusive far as I know. And yes on the ssd front, if you don't have one get one asap.
Memory for one. 295x has 8gb of memory which is perfect for 4k. 970 could run into the memory issue, and a 980 single is not that much less than the 295x but doesn't offer the performance or memory as well.
GPU is the only thing you need to swap there. 295x2 x2 is really nice but there will almost always (certainly) be crossfire issues, I kid you not. I would wait until the 390X comes out, or get a Titan X if you can't wait. Then get another one later on. But I'd stay with single card if I were you.
The 295X2 has 4GB of memory per GPU. In CrossFire, AFR mode mirrors the contents of VRAM for each GPU, giving you effectively 4GB of VRAM. 980 has 4GB of VRAM, and 970 has 4GB of VRAM where it's reluctant to allocate more than 3.5GB so let's consider it a 3.5GB card. The 295X2 does not offer any VRAM advantage over the 980, and offers little VRAM advantage over the 970.
I thought the 295x had 8gb each gpu to use synchronized, not 4gb...Huh... At that point get the 980, Titan X, or a high end gpu in that range with more Vram.
The memory requirement is for 32bit systems. If you're running a 64bit version of Windows, you can safely ignore it. Sell the GTX690 and replace it with Titan X SLI or wait for R9 390X and go Crossfire.
Thanks to all of you for your answers :eyes: My pc is running on 64-bit / ssd i just hope my cpu will still be capable to play the upcoming games (the witcher/gta5 and star citizen) on high/ultra settings with titanx sli ore 2 390x crossfire :nerd:
Your cpu is super good bro, no need to upgrade for some time.. You could even OC that a little more, maybe it's not necessary though.
As of right now SLI Titan X's would be your best bet for 4K gaming or you can play the waiting game and see what the AMD 390X pulls out of the bag. SLI Titan X's though are not cheap but then neither is 4K gaming
Pretty much what everybody else said. For now you're good with your CPU, maybe a little higher OC (4.5 or something). But if dx12 kicks in, or you go with the 390Xs and happen to have a game supporting mantle, you'll get to GPU limitation even faster, and that's where I think 4K gaming is once again heading, pure GPU limitation.
