What should I upgrade first?

[blastfire580]

CPU = Intel I7-2600k 3.40 gHZ

Motherboard= Asus p8z68 deluxe

GPU= Amd Radeon R7 260x

Ram= 8gb



I´d like to upgrade it to run either GT Sport or Project Cars 2.

 

[velocityg4]

That i7-2600K is still quite good. Use a halfway decent CPU cooler like the Cryorig H7 or Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo. Then OC it to 4+ Ghz. It should be good for pretty high performance gaming for a couple more years. My i5-3570K still does quite well at 4.2Ghz and keeps cool with the 212 Evo. The Cryorig is a newer and superior design.

That GPU definitely needs an upgrade. It needs an upgrade first.

RAM could be better. I'd bring it up to at least 16GB. Although you likely just have 2 open slots. So, I'd just add a 16GB set making it 24GB. That should give you plenty of RAM until that i7 is no longer good enough. Rather than having to buy RAM again in the future.

Although not for gaming. I would look into a 480+ GB SSD. It will make your computer feel much faster if not like new.

 

[10tacle]

Project Cars responds to both higher frequency CPU speeds as well as more powerful GPUs. I'm speaking from experience with the first Project Cars and assume PCars 2 will be similar since it will still be the same core graphics engine. If you mostly sim, I'd upgrade the GPU and definitely get a 2x8 GB RAM kit and sell your 8GB (you risk getting errors adding different memory modules if not sold in kit form even if the additional modules are the same model).

Oh and I'm not sure why you mentioned Gran Turismo GT Sport since that's only a Playstation 4 title. Did you mean Forza Motorsport 7 for XB1 and PC?

 

[blastfire580]

Project Cars responds to both higher frequency CPU speeds as well as more powerful GPUs. I'm speaking from experience with the first Project Cars and assume PCars 2 will be similar since it will still be the same core graphics engine. If you mostly sim, I'd upgrade the GPU and definitely get a 2x8 GB RAM kit and sell your 8GB (you risk getting errors adding different memory modules if not sold in kit form even if the additional modules are the same model).

Oh and I'm not sure why you mentioned Gran Turismo GT Sport since that's only a Playstation 4 title. Did you mean Forza Motorsport 7 for XB1 and PC?

I forgot to add I´m a dumbass and make stupid mistakes, yes i meant forza motorsport 7. Any idea on the gpu i should get, I was planning to buy a nvidia 1060 or 1070 bu im not sure

 

[10tacle]

Any idea on the gpu i should get, I was planning to buy a nvidia 1060 or 1070 bu im not sure

If you are running a 1080p non G-Sync 60Hz monitor, then the 6GB 1060 would be more than fine (spend more for the 6GB version). Even if you had a 1080p G-sync monitor it would be a good match. The 1060 averages over 100FPS with PCars 1:

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^^Now granted Tom's there used a 4GHz i7 6700K which would gain maybe 5-8FPS more than your CPU. But in fact you could run 1440p with Project Cars with a 1060 with maxed out settings. I ran PCars 1 at 1440p with a single GTX 970 which is about 10% slower than the 6GB 1060 and still had FPS room to spare to V-sync cap the FPS to 60.

I'm sure Project Cars 2 will be tweaked a little in graphics improvements (hard to imagine since PCars 1 is so gorgeous) but I don't see it having a big hit on performance. I was a beta tester in PCars 1 for a year (meaning an "investor" as an early adopter) before it was released to the public and Slightly Mad Studios loves Nvidia architecture. I did not join it for PCars 2.

One thing I love about Project Cars is that it responds very well to CPU overclocking, even at 1440p where most other games do not due to graphics being more the important factor. I can't give any advice about Forza 7 because there have been no hardware tests with it yet. However, Microsoft's rather light hardware demands in the recommended column hints that it will be easy on hardware (i5 4460 CPU, GTX 670 or GTX 1050Ti GPU).