Upgrading my Gtx 770

viowithcrailtap

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Hey guys,

I'm looking to upgrade my 770 as it's starting to heat up badly and whine a lot. It's over 2 1/2 years old and served me well.

I'm only gaming at 1080p so the 1060 is looking like a good replacement. I was just wondering if I should consider upgrading my system from my current Haswell system to a Skylake system with a Pascal card.

I've not had any issues with my 4670K so if I'm better off not changing until it becomes an issue then that's a bonus.

The money I could save from not buying a new cpu etc could go on a nice monitor.

Any input would be great. Also if anyone could recommend the stronger brand of Nvidia Gpu that would help.
 
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Unless the performance is inadequate in the games you play I would take the card out, take the cover off and give it a good vacuuming and add a drop of oil to the bushings in the fans and see if that solves the problems. If you are technically savvy enough you could remove the cooler and apply some new thermal paste to it. I was running a pair of GTX460's until about 6-9 months ago when one failed on me and I replaced them with a single GTX970 that I got for a good price. The new card produces better benchmarks but the actual game play experience on most of what I play is about the same - I play at 1920 x 1200. If I were buying new now for 1080P I'd go with a GTX1060 but if you're looking to step up to QHD (2560 x 1440) I'd go for a GTX...
Your cpu is still great. but if you want like 5-10fps increase get a skylake i7. but if i were you i would save that all and get a 1070. if a monitor is really necessary then you could get a 1060 but for about 50$ cheaper you can get the rx480 which is around the same performance.
 
The 770 is strong enough in 1080p that it's not so much an upgrade as a replacement. R9 390/x, Rx 480, GTX 970, 980, 1060. Any of those will pretty much max out the vast majority of games, even Witcher 3 will be ultra with most settings, high on some and still pull @50+ fps at 1080p on the least of these cards with your cpu.

And no, it's totally not worth moving from that Haswell to Skylake.
 
No need to upgrade your CPU. well ... technically an i7-4770K would be an upgrade option, but moving to skylake will give you almost nothing.
You can try to clean your card and save your self another 250$ 😉
If you want a good monitor - aim at 21:9 3440x1440 (at least 75Hz monitor). though you will need a 1070 to power it :)
 
Unless the performance is inadequate in the games you play I would take the card out, take the cover off and give it a good vacuuming and add a drop of oil to the bushings in the fans and see if that solves the problems. If you are technically savvy enough you could remove the cooler and apply some new thermal paste to it. I was running a pair of GTX460's until about 6-9 months ago when one failed on me and I replaced them with a single GTX970 that I got for a good price. The new card produces better benchmarks but the actual game play experience on most of what I play is about the same - I play at 1920 x 1200. If I were buying new now for 1080P I'd go with a GTX1060 but if you're looking to step up to QHD (2560 x 1440) I'd go for a GTX 1070 or GTX1080 although I generally avoid buying the highest tier hardware as you pay a 25% price premium for a 5% performance premium. I tend to go with Nvdia simply because they generally run cooler and consume less power than the equivalent Radeon cards. In terms of recommendations based on what you play Toms "best graphics cards" guide is pretty good in this respect. In terms of brands I have had good experience with eVGA, MSI and ASUS products
 
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I've already hoovered it and changed the thermal paste and it's still heating up a lot.

Glad I don't need to change my cpu any time soon.
 
19-22" 900p, 23-24" 1080p, 27-28" 1440p, 28+" 4k. I've seen 24" 4k monitors and while the picture looks a little more real, the details really get lost with higher resolutions on smaller monitors. Might want to look into something like an ultra wide at 2560x1080 which would suit a gtx 1060 quite well.