Hello everyone!
With being stuck in my home for what is likely an appreciable amount of time, I've begun looking at my gaming PC and thinking it may be time to upgrade a few components. I was playing games like Total War: Warhammer 2 and Jedi: The Fallen Order and seeing some pretty noticeable performance drops. Not unplayable by any means, but I'd like to smooth it out if I can. The machine itself is just under three years old and hasn't had any core components changed in its lifetime unless you consider a PSU swap core. Here's what we're working with
CPU: Intel i7-7700K
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080TI - EVGA FTW 3
MB: MSI z270 PC Mate
RAM: 8gb x2 Adata XPG DDR4 3000 Ram
PSU: EVGA Supernova G2 750w
Storage: 1TB NVME Samsung 970 Evo as my boot drive
x2 2TB Hard drives for storage
I'm fairly knowledgable about parts, but I really want to know what some of you have to say. I was considering finding a second 1080ti and running it SLI, but I don't know how well that fairs in terms of support or if that would be better or worse than just upgrading to an RTX card. On that topic, I'm not sure if my CPU is bottlenecking me, so would it be a better plan to upgrade the cpu?
Or do I just need to tear it down and start from scratch with a new build?
Any feedback would be awesome!
Thank You!
Edit: I think its worth mentioning my CPU can run quite hot under load, around 80c when playing games like Total War: Warhammer 2.
With being stuck in my home for what is likely an appreciable amount of time, I've begun looking at my gaming PC and thinking it may be time to upgrade a few components. I was playing games like Total War: Warhammer 2 and Jedi: The Fallen Order and seeing some pretty noticeable performance drops. Not unplayable by any means, but I'd like to smooth it out if I can. The machine itself is just under three years old and hasn't had any core components changed in its lifetime unless you consider a PSU swap core. Here's what we're working with
CPU: Intel i7-7700K
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080TI - EVGA FTW 3
MB: MSI z270 PC Mate
RAM: 8gb x2 Adata XPG DDR4 3000 Ram
PSU: EVGA Supernova G2 750w
Storage: 1TB NVME Samsung 970 Evo as my boot drive
x2 2TB Hard drives for storage
I'm fairly knowledgable about parts, but I really want to know what some of you have to say. I was considering finding a second 1080ti and running it SLI, but I don't know how well that fairs in terms of support or if that would be better or worse than just upgrading to an RTX card. On that topic, I'm not sure if my CPU is bottlenecking me, so would it be a better plan to upgrade the cpu?
Or do I just need to tear it down and start from scratch with a new build?
Any feedback would be awesome!
Thank You!
Edit: I think its worth mentioning my CPU can run quite hot under load, around 80c when playing games like Total War: Warhammer 2.
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