Hi,
This wonderful community helped me about 6 years ago, with some advice to upgrade my PC, and I'm looking for some more advice again!
I have a second hand PC which is now about 7 years old. It has done me really well, but it is starting to struggle to run some of the more recent games I've bought on quite low graphics settings. The issue appears to be with the frame rates and the GPU rather than the CPU/RAM.
Here is my PC:
CPU: I7 3770k
CASE: Coolermaster HAF X
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS Z77 Sabertooth
GPU: 2x R9 280x's TRI edition (6GB in total)
RAM: 16GB CORSAIR DDR3 RAM
SSD: 120GB HYPER X SSD
HDD: WD 2TB DRIVE.
PSU: COOLERMASTER 1000w Platinum
Although I have 2 GPUs joined together, I've never been able to use them both to improve gameplay experience. Enabling CrossFire mode has always been buggy/glitchy or prevented games from working at all. (It doesn't seem to be an option to help me looking at some other threads)
Anyway, I think I would prefer to make the most out of the PC set up I've got, than start again from scratch with a new ready-built or second hand PC.
This thread suggests the maximum GPU appropriate for this CPU would be a GTX 1660.
[SOLVED] - best gpu for an Intel i7-3770k | Tom's Hardware Forum (tomshardware.com) [Jan 2021]
Is this still correct? Would it provide much of an improvement for me?
If i get a GTX 1660 GPU, would it be easy enough to remove the two AMD GPUs in there and replace with the new GPU? I haven't built or modified a PC before, but would be happy to give it a go!
The GTX 1660 is selling for between £200 and £300 on ebay. My budget is a lot higher than this (£800) if it makes sense to use it. I suppose in this case I would look to replace the motherboard and CPU as well? (Along with a more fiddly set up?).
Any advice appreciated, thank you!
[note edited 3060/3060Ti GPU and replaced with GTX 1660 - I got my facts wrong in my original post, which was picked up in the following posts as the ebay price above was not for 3060 GPU]
This wonderful community helped me about 6 years ago, with some advice to upgrade my PC, and I'm looking for some more advice again!
I have a second hand PC which is now about 7 years old. It has done me really well, but it is starting to struggle to run some of the more recent games I've bought on quite low graphics settings. The issue appears to be with the frame rates and the GPU rather than the CPU/RAM.
Here is my PC:
CPU: I7 3770k
CASE: Coolermaster HAF X
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS Z77 Sabertooth
GPU: 2x R9 280x's TRI edition (6GB in total)
RAM: 16GB CORSAIR DDR3 RAM
SSD: 120GB HYPER X SSD
HDD: WD 2TB DRIVE.
PSU: COOLERMASTER 1000w Platinum
Although I have 2 GPUs joined together, I've never been able to use them both to improve gameplay experience. Enabling CrossFire mode has always been buggy/glitchy or prevented games from working at all. (It doesn't seem to be an option to help me looking at some other threads)
Anyway, I think I would prefer to make the most out of the PC set up I've got, than start again from scratch with a new ready-built or second hand PC.
This thread suggests the maximum GPU appropriate for this CPU would be a GTX 1660.
[SOLVED] - best gpu for an Intel i7-3770k | Tom's Hardware Forum (tomshardware.com) [Jan 2021]
Is this still correct? Would it provide much of an improvement for me?
If i get a GTX 1660 GPU, would it be easy enough to remove the two AMD GPUs in there and replace with the new GPU? I haven't built or modified a PC before, but would be happy to give it a go!
The GTX 1660 is selling for between £200 and £300 on ebay. My budget is a lot higher than this (£800) if it makes sense to use it. I suppose in this case I would look to replace the motherboard and CPU as well? (Along with a more fiddly set up?).
Any advice appreciated, thank you!
[note edited 3060/3060Ti GPU and replaced with GTX 1660 - I got my facts wrong in my original post, which was picked up in the following posts as the ebay price above was not for 3060 GPU]
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