Hi all,
I'm in a bit of a difficult situation because of the recent death of my graphics card...
I had:
Core2duo E8400
4GB RAM
8800GT
I was planning on holding off on upgrading until the release of the consumer oculus rift and also the GTX800 series, but my 8800GT seems to have died. I had a 7300GT in an HTPC, so I moved that to my PC so I can still use it, but it's excruciatingly low powered. It also seems to be malfunctioning, as I had driver crashes on windows and GPU lockup on ubuntu.
So, I decided I need to get a new graphics card. I still want to wait for the 800 series to get a top end one, so I'm thinking of getting a GTX750 or similar to last me for the next few months.
I will probably be gaming a little bit in the interim (which is why I'm looking at a GTX750 and not a GTX610 to get me by), though I'm mostly interested in VR performance in the long run; i.e., when the consumer rift is released.
So my questions are:
1. If I get a GTX750 (or something else in that price range) will I need to upgrade my CPU to make the most of it?
2. I want to maximise the performance I get out of the 800 series card I get when it's out (will be getting whatever is the 800 series equivalent of the 780ti). Would I be able to do this with a reasonable priced CPU now? Or in other words, I have the money for CPU, motherboard, RAM, and a GTX750 now, so should I just get all of those components now and upgrade the graphics card (and case/GPU if need be) when the 800 series comes out, or would I be better off dumping the GTX750 in my current system and replace my whole system when the 800 series is out?
3. If the answer to both questions is that I should upgrade the CPU now, what would be a good choice that would be future resistant enough that I wouldn't be needing another CPU upgrade for the GTX800 series? I'm thinking of a 4670k, but I really don't know what would be a good choice. There are other tasks (other than gaming) that I use PC for, but I have another PC that has a 2500k in it that seems to perform reasonably well for most things I want to do, so I'm confident that I won't need an i7 for those tasks.
My instinct is that CPUs probably won't change much in price or performance between now and when the 800 series comes out, so I'm inclined to upgrade now, but want to check with others who are more in the loop regarding what's happening with CPUs these days, because I really haven't been keeping up to date on that.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Cheers
I'm in a bit of a difficult situation because of the recent death of my graphics card...
I had:
Core2duo E8400
4GB RAM
8800GT
I was planning on holding off on upgrading until the release of the consumer oculus rift and also the GTX800 series, but my 8800GT seems to have died. I had a 7300GT in an HTPC, so I moved that to my PC so I can still use it, but it's excruciatingly low powered. It also seems to be malfunctioning, as I had driver crashes on windows and GPU lockup on ubuntu.
So, I decided I need to get a new graphics card. I still want to wait for the 800 series to get a top end one, so I'm thinking of getting a GTX750 or similar to last me for the next few months.
I will probably be gaming a little bit in the interim (which is why I'm looking at a GTX750 and not a GTX610 to get me by), though I'm mostly interested in VR performance in the long run; i.e., when the consumer rift is released.
So my questions are:
1. If I get a GTX750 (or something else in that price range) will I need to upgrade my CPU to make the most of it?
2. I want to maximise the performance I get out of the 800 series card I get when it's out (will be getting whatever is the 800 series equivalent of the 780ti). Would I be able to do this with a reasonable priced CPU now? Or in other words, I have the money for CPU, motherboard, RAM, and a GTX750 now, so should I just get all of those components now and upgrade the graphics card (and case/GPU if need be) when the 800 series comes out, or would I be better off dumping the GTX750 in my current system and replace my whole system when the 800 series is out?
3. If the answer to both questions is that I should upgrade the CPU now, what would be a good choice that would be future resistant enough that I wouldn't be needing another CPU upgrade for the GTX800 series? I'm thinking of a 4670k, but I really don't know what would be a good choice. There are other tasks (other than gaming) that I use PC for, but I have another PC that has a 2500k in it that seems to perform reasonably well for most things I want to do, so I'm confident that I won't need an i7 for those tasks.
My instinct is that CPUs probably won't change much in price or performance between now and when the 800 series comes out, so I'm inclined to upgrade now, but want to check with others who are more in the loop regarding what's happening with CPUs these days, because I really haven't been keeping up to date on that.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Cheers