I'm looking to upgrade my PC that I built in 2012 so that it can play the latest games at high frame rates.
My PC is the following:
Silverstone FT02 Case
Corsair AX1200 PSU
ASUS Z77 Sabertooth Motherboard
16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 LP
Intel i7-3770K CPU
Thermalright SB-E HSF
EVGA GTX 690 GPU
1TB Samsung 840 EVO SSD
Asus Xonar Essence STX
I run 3 monitors. The primary gaming monitor is a Dell U3014 at 2560x1600 and I have a 1920x1200 Dell U2410 on each side. I typically play my games in full screen windowed mode so that I can have music/other apps like a web browser open on my other 2 smaller monitors.
I typically play Blizzard games that are not all that demanding, but I'd like a bit more performance in WoW and perhaps soon playing Destiny 2 on PC. I'd like to get a comfortable 60 FPS while having other apps open on other monitors.
What all do you recommend that I upgrade as my current weak spot? I haven't been OCing my CPU, I probably should for some gains there. I do plan on upgrading to some variant of the EVGA GTX 1080 TI since I am obviously quite VRAM limited with my GTX 690, but I was curious if anyone sees any other areas where I could see the biggest performance gains. I understand I'll see drastic gains by swapping the GPU. Seems like most people don' t think it's really worth it to swap out a 3770K for a 7700K yet assuming I overclock.
Thoughts? Appreciate the feedback. Thanks
EDIT: I do plan on upgrading to a 4K monitor at some point, so then I'd like 4K at 60FPS. I am just not sure how soon I will do that.
My PC is the following:
Silverstone FT02 Case
Corsair AX1200 PSU
ASUS Z77 Sabertooth Motherboard
16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 LP
Intel i7-3770K CPU
Thermalright SB-E HSF
EVGA GTX 690 GPU
1TB Samsung 840 EVO SSD
Asus Xonar Essence STX
I run 3 monitors. The primary gaming monitor is a Dell U3014 at 2560x1600 and I have a 1920x1200 Dell U2410 on each side. I typically play my games in full screen windowed mode so that I can have music/other apps like a web browser open on my other 2 smaller monitors.
I typically play Blizzard games that are not all that demanding, but I'd like a bit more performance in WoW and perhaps soon playing Destiny 2 on PC. I'd like to get a comfortable 60 FPS while having other apps open on other monitors.
What all do you recommend that I upgrade as my current weak spot? I haven't been OCing my CPU, I probably should for some gains there. I do plan on upgrading to some variant of the EVGA GTX 1080 TI since I am obviously quite VRAM limited with my GTX 690, but I was curious if anyone sees any other areas where I could see the biggest performance gains. I understand I'll see drastic gains by swapping the GPU. Seems like most people don' t think it's really worth it to swap out a 3770K for a 7700K yet assuming I overclock.
Thoughts? Appreciate the feedback. Thanks
EDIT: I do plan on upgrading to a 4K monitor at some point, so then I'd like 4K at 60FPS. I am just not sure how soon I will do that.
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