Gaming PC Upgrade

[fsant653]

Long story short: no time to look into it and not much budget. Which part should I upgrade for the biggest performance boost and would other parts not become a big bottleneck? I want to play GTAV and Star Wars Battlefront 3 at decent settings (45 fps will do fine since I'm not that hardcore anymore) Back-up plan is just to buy PS4 as replacement for my PS3 because of it price/time ratio.

Specs:
I7 930 @2.80 GHz
MSI 5870
6 GB DDR3 1600 MHz XMS3
ASUS P6T V2. DELUXE

Thanks!

 

[Archgaull]

I would upgrade your GPU, you're CPU is fine.

 

[DeathRabit]

Best choice for you GTX 960 + OC CPU to around 4Ghz
Give you in GTA5 1080P Very high detail around 40FPS
On stock speed you got around 33FPS
I not recommended you to go with R9 290X becasue you got only 31FPS when you will have CPU at 4Ghz.

Entire CPU test for GTA 5:
CPU + GTX 970 http://pclab.pl/art57777-22.html
CPU + R9 290X http://pclab.pl/art57777-23.html
i5-4690K@ 4.5Ghz + GPUs at 1080P Very High details
http://pclab.pl/art57777-15.html

 

[fsant653]

Might be able to stretch out to ASUS STRIX-GTX960-DC2OC-4GD5. Or would the good old i7 finally give his last breath then?

 

[DeathRabit]

Might be able to stretch out to ASUS STRIX-GTX960-DC2OC-4GD5. Or would the good old i7 finally give his last breath then?

Look at this EVGA is factory OC higher compare to ASUS Strix.
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB FTW ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($219.99 @ Best Buy)

Check review probably best GTX 960 on market 😉
http://www.overclockers.com/evga-gtx-960-4gb-supersc-acx-2-0-graphics-card-review/

Your i7 at 4Ghz will be sufficient probably until first DX12 games show up and with DX12 your CPU will catch second breath
* DX 11 use one thread, DX 12 six thread to process request from GPU and add some other nice perfoamce tweaks

 

[fsant653]

Last question, is the PCIe 2.0 on P6T V2 deluxe compatible with the PCIe 3.0 of the GTX 960 4GB?

Best choice for you GTX 960 + OC CPU to around 4Ghz
Give you in GTA5 1080P Very high detail around 40FPS
On stock speed you got around 33FPS
I not recommended you to go with R9 290X becasue you got only 31FPS when you will have CPU at 4Ghz.

Entire CPU test for GTA 5:
CPU + GTX 970 http://pclab.pl/art57777-22.html
CPU + R9 290X http://pclab.pl/art57777-23.html
i5-4690K@ 4.5Ghz + GPUs at 1080P Very High details
http://pclab.pl/art57777-15.html

Might be able to stretch out to ASUS STRIX-GTX960-DC2OC-4GD5. Or would the good old i7 finally give his last breath then?

Look at this EVGA is factory OC higher compare to ASUS Strix.
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB FTW ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($219.99 @ Best Buy)

Check review probably best GTX 960 on market 😉
http://www.overclockers.com/evga-gtx-960-4gb-supersc-acx-2-0-graphics-card-review/

Your i7 at 4Ghz will be sufficient probably until first DX12 games show up and with DX12 your CPU will catch second breath
* DX 11 use one thread, DX 12 six thread to process request from GPU and add some other nice perfoamce tweaks

 

[DeathRabit]

Is no real difference in performance between PCIe 2.0 and PCIe 3.0 and All GPUs are compatible backward