What's holding back my pc?

[CJ]

I have an AMD P965 Black edition, and a 560Ti.

My BF4 runs super smooth at 60fps on super low detail between alerts that I might get more performance if I switch off windows aero.

[Chili]

I'm buying it. He's telling me to wait until it comes out so the prices on the current generation items drop. I told him my goal was to spend +/- $1,000 on upgrades.

To elaborate, He's telling me I could save hundreds If I just wait a two or so months and still get upgrades leaps and bounds better than what I have.

The thing is, with stuff like this there is always newer and better just 6 month away. If you try and play that waiting game, you will never get anything. Once that new stuff comes out, you will then want to wait another few months for the even newer stuff to come out. Never ending cycle.

[CJ]

I would say a 970 is a good generation and a good time to buy.

[stang2be]

I would say a 970 is a good generation and a good time to buy.

I got a 970 used off CL for $250 to upgrade from my 660ti. Like it so far. The 660ti wasnt a bad card still either

[Gasser64]

That's actually the opposite of what you're doing if you're worried about always having latest and greatest.

Just what I can afford. I can't afford 4k. I can afford 1440p. So that's what I run. 1080p is living on borrowed time. Saying it's not is like saying 720 wasn't when 1080 came out

[CexMashean]

I'd put money on the majority of pc gaming being 1080p right now.

[Craizie]

So who wants to assemble this new PC for me?

[CexMashean]

Whoa guy.. . . that's like asking another man to change your flat tire.

[Tx Redneck]

I'd offer if I didn't just re-rupture 2 discs in my back.

[Craizie]

Whoa guy.. . . that's like asking another man to change your flat tire.

I did not know that was frowned upon. My hands weren't made to work on small delicate equipment.

So..... does that mean you're not down to do it? Just trying to get my list of potentials tidied up.

[Gasser64]

I'd put money on the majority of pc gaming being 1080p right now.

And I'd put money on you being right.

I did not know that was frowned upon. My hands weren't made to work on small delicate equipment.

So..... does that mean you're not down to do it? Just trying to get my list of potentials tidied up.

What part of DFW do you live in? Its really hard to screw it up, its easier to put together than a lego set, because the parts will only fit together in one way. You're just plugging in a bunch of stuff into "sockets" that only it will fit into. The RAM will only fit into a RAM slot, and only the right way. Same for the video card. The power supply can't hurt anything you plug it into, it will only power things that need any power.

Really if you can plug a plug into a wall outlet, you can find your way through this. Also, the motherboard manuals are very helpful and easy to read. They tell you exactly where plug the smaller stuff like USB and Power button, and those are even labeled on the motherboard as well.

Only thing you'd have to be real careful with would be the CPU, and there is a little arrow on one corner which will line up with a little corner on its socket, on the motherboard.

AN EDIT:

If you get an AMD cpu, there might be a slight difference when putting the CPU into its socket. IIRC, AMD still uses pins that go into holes on the motherboard. Intel has the pins on the board itself, so you just sort of "set the cpu down" on top of those pins. Cause the CPU doesn't even have holes, just little contact points where the pins will touch it. After matching up the arrow on the CPU to the corresponding corner on the socket. So with AMD, you do actually need to be sure that the pins went into their hole. There have been people who have bent their pins that way.

My rig:

Gigabyte z77x UD3h motherboard

Intel Core I5 3570k @ 4.6Ghz

Evga GTX 770 Classified

Old Western digital 640 Black HDD (x2)

Corsair 800watt PSU

I consider this a bang for the buck rig.

[JC316]

What part of DFW do you live in? Its really hard to screw it up, its easier to put together than a lego set, because the parts will only fit together in one way. You're just plugging in a bunch of stuff into "sockets" that only it will fit into. The RAM will only fit into a RAM slot, and only the right way. Same for the video card. The power supply can't hurt anything you plug it into, it will only power things that need any power.

Really if you can plug a plug into a wall outlet, you can find your way through this. Also, the motherboard manuals are very helpful and easy to read. They tell you exactly where plug the smaller stuff like USB and Power button, and those are even labeled on the motherboard as well.

Only thing you'd have to be real careful with would be the CPU, and there is a little arrow on one corner which will line up with a little corner on its socket, on the motherboard.

AN EDIT:

If you get an AMD cpu, there might be a slight difference when putting the CPU into its socket. IIRC, AMD still uses pins that go into holes on the motherboard. Intel has the pins on the board itself, so you just sort of "set the cpu down" on top of those pins. Cause the CPU doesn't even have holes, just little contact points where the pins will touch it. After matching up the arrow on the CPU to the corresponding corner on the socket. So with AMD, you do actually need to be sure that the pins went into their hole. There have been people who have bent their pins that way.

My rig:

Gigabyte z77x UD3h motherboard

Intel Core I5 3570k @ 4.6Ghz

Evga GTX 770 Classified

Old Western digital 640 Black HDD (x2)

Corsair 800watt PSU

I consider this a bang for the buck rig.

Agreed. Assembly isn't near as hard as it was back in the Athlon XP era. Everything is just plug and play. The AMD chips do sitll have pins, but you just line up the arrows and the CPU will fall into place with gravity, you never want to push on it.

That is pretty close to what I use.

ASrock Extreme Z87

I5 4670K @ 4.2ghz

EVGA GTX 770 Superclocked 4gb

FSP 1000w.

[Gasser64]

Only thing that sucks these days, is that for some reason, intel has decided they want to rape the customer a little more, and have a socket last only 2 years instead of 5. For example, if I wanted to upgrade to an I5 4xxx series from my I5 3xxx series, I can't. Nope, got to buy a whole new motherboard.

I'm sure they have some kid of reason, and maybe it is a big upgrade. I kind of doubt it. But I miss the days up being able to upgrade a cpu 2 or 3 times on the same board if I wanted to.

[FunFordCobra]

Titan x or nothing.
12 GB VRAM for beautiful 12k viewing!!

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/04/nvidia-titan-x/

[Gasser64]

I think we're talking about rigs not being built by rich people.