Need, no. Use, maybe
I haven't read the whole thread … but why do you want to do a big upgrade at all? Just replace the graphics card and double the RAM. You'll hardly find a game you can't play @max.
Save the rest of the money until it's clear how next gen consoles will influence PC games.
What are you doing with your old pc ?
I haven't read the whole thread … but why do you want to do a big upgrade at all? Just replace the graphics card and double the RAM. You'll hardly find a game you can't play @max.
Save the rest of the money until it's clear how next gen consoles will influence PC games.
This or wait until next year as there doesn't seem to be to many new games heading our way this year that will be that demanding.
Personally I am waiting until about this time next year just before the TW3 release.
Is my PC good enough to make the best of say GTX 770?
It won't make the best of it, but it's good enough that you would see a significant performance increase from your GTX 460.
I was thinking of selling it or give it to my wife.
Are you hinting I should take parts from it? Its a good enough PC and I thought if took parts then the rest of the ones will be wasted.
This is what I thought as well. Anyway if I decide to upgrade I don't think its worth going for GTX 770 given my current PC can't make the best of it. May be I should look into a mid rage GTX 6xx series?
Have you got your new GTX 770 card yet? if yes i would like to know what you think about it? make much difference to some of the current RPG games you play?
I haven't read the whole thread … but why do you want to do a big upgrade at all? Just replace the graphics card and double the RAM. You'll hardly find a game you can't play @max.
Save the rest of the money until it's clear how next gen consoles will influence PC games.
So I say get a good videocard ( don't worry if its more powerful than the rest of your components you'll still see a huge increase and can bring it too you next system) and wait for haswell-E platform in 2014. That will be the next real jump for intel with estimated 30-50% gains over current top of the line processors.
Ah, but is there ever a right time to upgrade? When the new architecture comes out it will be new, and thus overpriced. By the time prices have dropped, the next gen GFX cards will be around the corner again… It's an endless cycle
But to comment on an earlier topic of discussion: Getting a solid state drive was the best thing I did for my current system. I have a small 128G one, just for the OS, a few core programs, and two/three favorite games that have long loadtimes or stream a lot of stuff from the HD (Witcher 2 and Gothic 3, currently) - all the rest is on a quality standard HD. But it makes such a difference for starting up and just responsiveness of core stuff, I just can't imagine going back. So maybe not for games specifically, but for general use SSD is something I really recommend.
Do you guys know if GTX 460 and GTX 770 uses the same power connectors please?
Edit: looks like need different power connectors.