Hello All,
I just recently upgraded my old Zotac Geforce GTX 770 AMP! to the newer Zotac Geforce GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme and now I have officially sucked myself back in to the black hole that is system upgrading.
Rather than spring for a full new build I'd like to take an incremental approach over the next few months (would have a tough time justifying why a shiny new rig is all of the sudden sitting in my office to SO
). My question is, where should I be focusing my efforts as far as upgrades in order to take care of the most logical and efficient components first while avoiding bottlenecks or incompatibility?
My current system specs are as followed:
Asus Z87-PRO
Intel Core i7 4770 3.4 GHz ("stable" OC to ~3.9 GHz)
Cooler Master Seidon 240M Liquid CPU cooler
Zotac 1080 AMP! Extreme (stable boost speeds of 2000+ MHz )
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB Kit (8GBx2) 1600 MHz Clock Speed DDR3 (Have 2nd kit available)
Crucial M550 128GB SSD - Arch Linux 64-bit
Seagate Desktop 1 TB HDD - Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium
Thermaltake Toughpower Grand 850W 80+ Gold Fully Modular PSU
Cooler Master HAF 922M ATX Mid-Tower
Asus VN247 1920x1080 60Hz 1ms response LCD
System use is mostly gaming (MM0/RPG/MOBA) and hobbyist-level programming so no crazy video editing or intensive development going on.
My initial intention was to simply upgrade my monitor after purchasing the video card (looking at 1440p 144Hz) but after nitpicking a rattling cooler and considering mobo/cpu gen age I want to get a little more current all-around.
Appreciate hearing what you all think!
I just recently upgraded my old Zotac Geforce GTX 770 AMP! to the newer Zotac Geforce GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme and now I have officially sucked myself back in to the black hole that is system upgrading.
Rather than spring for a full new build I'd like to take an incremental approach over the next few months (would have a tough time justifying why a shiny new rig is all of the sudden sitting in my office to SO
). My question is, where should I be focusing my efforts as far as upgrades in order to take care of the most logical and efficient components first while avoiding bottlenecks or incompatibility?My current system specs are as followed:
Asus Z87-PRO
Intel Core i7 4770 3.4 GHz ("stable" OC to ~3.9 GHz)
Cooler Master Seidon 240M Liquid CPU cooler
Zotac 1080 AMP! Extreme (stable boost speeds of 2000+ MHz )
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB Kit (8GBx2) 1600 MHz Clock Speed DDR3 (Have 2nd kit available)
Crucial M550 128GB SSD - Arch Linux 64-bit
Seagate Desktop 1 TB HDD - Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium
Thermaltake Toughpower Grand 850W 80+ Gold Fully Modular PSU
Cooler Master HAF 922M ATX Mid-Tower
Asus VN247 1920x1080 60Hz 1ms response LCD
System use is mostly gaming (MM0/RPG/MOBA) and hobbyist-level programming so no crazy video editing or intensive development going on.
My initial intention was to simply upgrade my monitor after purchasing the video card (looking at 1440p 144Hz) but after nitpicking a rattling cooler and considering mobo/cpu gen age I want to get a little more current all-around.
Appreciate hearing what you all think!
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