What to upgrade?

[omfghi2u]

Currently my rig is i5 2500 plus gigabyte h61m with 16gb of ram. Gtx 970. Using ssd.
What should i upgrade?

 

[Allanlee82]

Currently my rig is i5 2500 plus gigabyte h61m with 16gb of ram. Gtx 970. Using ssd.
What should i upgrade?

everything looks good, nothing to upgrade.
if you die die want to upgrade something, maybe can change monitor, upgrade to a bigger size ssd, change casing or add in a aio CPU cooler?

 

[Taveren]

IMO you should identify first why you want to upgrade, and for what purpose then you can minimize your options. Oh and budget aswell

 

[omfghi2u]

currently using H100i to cool the 2500 and 250GB SSD
all housed inside a Phanteks Luxe with a 27' 1440p monitor.
looks like all is good ?

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

but just checking whats ur budget anyway?

 

[Entry Level PC]

Nothing to upgrade.
Please tong until AMD Zen, Polaris and Nvidia Pascal.

 

[lcheowl]

Nothing to upgrade.
Please tong until AMD Zen, Polaris and Nvidia Pascal.

you should poison TS, can help the economy you know? lol

 

[lcheowl]

currently using H100i to cool the 2500 and 250GB SSD
all housed inside a Phanteks Luxe with a 27' 1440p monitor.
looks like all is good ?

the improvement will be felt if you play the only latest games on 1440 p or going triple monitors setup, by changing your gpu.

Else, you only got the shiok feeling without a big gain in performance.

 

[omfghi2u]

thanks !
thought of upgrading to haswell , but i think i hold off for now and use the cash to build a htpc / nas

 

[Entry Level PC]

you should poison TS, can help the economy you know? lol

In this case upgrade to sibei satki Xeon Processor for future proofing and go grab amd fury so you can link nvidia and amd gpu together for directx12.

 

[Entry Level PC]

thanks !
thought of upgrading to haswell , but i think i hold off for now and use the cash to build a htpc / nas

can go itx pc.

 

[ChouunShiryuu]

Currently my rig is i5 2500 plus gigabyte h61m with 16gb of ram. Gtx 970. Using ssd.
What should i upgrade?

Upgrade to i7, Ram or to TitanX. Also depend on your budget.

 

[kandinsky]

Currently my rig is i5 2500 plus gigabyte h61m with 16gb of ram. Gtx 970. Using ssd.
What should i upgrade?

What games are you playing? What problems are you facing? If you're not hitting any performance bottleneck, can spend on peripherals.

 

[U2gamer]

Upgrade to i7, x99 mobo and gtx980ti if you have the budget.

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[omfghi2u]

Upgrade to i7, Ram or to TitanX. Also depend on your budget.

Think i tahan until the new stuffs come
And i get a hp microserver in the meantime

 

[watzup_ken]

I do agree that there is no need to upgrade on your current rig since its working perfectly well. Sure you get some improvements if you upgrade, but at this late in the product cycle with small gains, I don't see the point.