Anyone /g/ here? I want to upgrade my computer, and my budget

>>18159728
>Anyone /g/ here?
...why would you not just ask /g/?

Why do you want to upgrade your computer? Are you wanting to do VR? Are games lagging for you? Striving for 4K gaming?

I mean, I bought my computer's parts for ~$400 total. Not a god machine but hey it gets the job done well. Can run most modern games at 1080p 50 to 60FPS. If it's not broken, don't fix it hahaha

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>>18159734

I'm in the same spot, OP. I'm going to upgrade my computer this summer hopefully...I built mine around the same time you built yours.

I'm planning on just getting a new motherboard, processor, graphics card, and PSU (I cheaped out the first time). Remember the RAM and the OS too.

The monitors, tower, speakers, keyboard, etc will all stay the same to save money. If I have any leftover I may get a new tower because I bought one of those 14 year old boy badass towers and I wish I had gotten something more grown up.

Use

http://www.logicalincrements.com/

>>18159735
I'm running a 144Hz monitor, and I'm lagging/barely getting 60FPS on certain games. I kinda wanna upgrade because of just how powerful i've heard the 1080 Ti is, and because of how outdated my CPU/motherboard is becoming. My 780 Ti isn't exactly new either.

>>18159728
are you saying you can't play those games on your current pc? bc I can not imagine that.

anyway, gpu is super duper important for gaming. I'm not a hardware specialist but I can't imagine the cpu is too slow for anything gaming related

>>18159738
I see. I've already got a Win7 disc i'm going to use, because honestly, fuck Win8 and Win10. They both look like shit and come with features you really don't need, and just generally get in the way. Learning to navigate files again won't be worth the extra 3-4 FPS im probably going to get desu.

>>18159745
I can, I just don't get the performance I want on them, considering I have a 1080p screen with 144 Hz. I just can't handle 60 FPS anymore for some reason.

>>18159728
Guide to upgrade:
1. Does my game i want to play runs good enough?
>yes no upgrade

2. Buy new graphic card. Currently i suggest you
geforce1060 / RX480 if poor
geforce1070 if not that poor
or you can go full retard and buy better
3. Does my game runs good enough now?
>yes stop buying other stuff
4. Figure out if anybody in the world can even play that game without problems
>yes, only me has problems
5. Buy new mobo, cpu and ram.

Since you have i7 and ddr3, you can buy new cpu and ddr4 and see 5% increase in performance of gaming terms. Yes the technology slowed down a lot.

Just get new GPU and be happy.

>>18159728
Your computer specs sound quite fine to me. I can run games with High-Ultra High settings with my old Clevo laptop from 2011, which has considerably crappier graphics card than your computer has.

You might have too many unnecessary background processes going on. You can disable those you won't need by running services.msc, or use a program like Game Booster or Razer Cortex to shut them down temporarily while playing.

Also make sure your graphics driver is up to date!

On my tower PC I have my operating system on SSD and keep games on HDD.

>>18159813
The thing is that I play a lot of CPU intensive games. I'm just worried about the bottleneck. Had it not been for that I would already had bought a 1080 Ti.

>>18159820
Your resolution has to be considerably low though, I don't think a PC from 2011 would run any game nowadays on Ultra settings with 1080P and get solid 60 FPS.

I've looked into getting an SSD to boost my load times actually, textures render a bit slower. You can literally see how the textures get more clearer, although that isn't exactly a long process or something i'm bothered by.

Question, can you keep the OS in an SSD in a PCI slot? Or do I have to use SATA cables (and buy an SSD with SATA slots?)

I've already disabled most of the unnecessary background processes, thanks for the advice though.

>>18159840
Go see benchmarks of games. The gpu power is like 4x more power than your gpu. In cpu? Almost 0 difference in games.

And about arma. It is one of these games which runs badly on almost all hardware. And please dont buy the most expensive gpu unless you swim in money. It is never worth it.

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>>18159877
I see. Thanks for the advice.