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System Name | The Captain (2.0) |
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Processor | Ryzen 7 7700X |
Motherboard | Gigabyte X670E AORUS Master |
Cooling | 280mm Arctic Liquid Freezer II, 4x Be Quiet! 140mm Silent Wings 4 (1x exhaust 3x intake) |
Memory | 32GB (2x16) G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo (6000Mhz) |
Video Card(s) | MSI GeForce RTX 3070 SUPRIM X |
Storage | 1x Crucial MX500 500GB SSD; 1x Crucial MX500 500GB M.2 SSD; 1x WD Blue HDD, 1x Crucial P5 Plus |
Display(s) | Aorus CV27F 27" 1080p 165Hz |
Case | Phanteks Evolv X (Anthracite Gray) |
Power Supply | Corsair RMx (2021) 1000W 80-Plus Gold |
Mouse | Varies based on mood/task; is currently Razer Basilisk V3 Pro or Razer Cobra Pro |
Keyboard | Varies based on mood; currently Razer Blackwidow V4 75% and Hyper X Alloy 65 |
My rig is about 7 or 8 months old - built with the help of my father, yay, lol - and when I initially built it, despite the months of researching I did beforehand, I made the rookie mistake of focusing on building it for one game in particular, in addition to the everyday tasks like internet/email, movies, etc. and am kind of regretting my choices now. I built my rig for The Sims 3 - its much more demanding than people think, but not even close to the "real games" out there - and now in addition to playing Sims 3 and Sims 4, I'd like to move on to more intense games - Bioshock Infinite and Sleeping Dogs among them. As such, I'm looking to upgrade a few parts of my rig, namely the CPU, Motherboard and GPU. Currently, I have an AMD FX-6100 and ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 mobo, but I'm going to be upgrading to an i5-4690K and Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z5S motherboard because I want to have better performance and wish to learn how to OC, and I apparently can't do so on my current board. So the CPU +mobo is figured out. The GPU, however, is making my head spin.
Where do I start? Two companies, various brands and what seems like 1,000's of different models. I have to make it clear than I do not have a 1080p HD monitor - the highest resolution my monitor goes to is 1600x900. That said, I'm not even completely sure what my budget would be because of this. All I know is I want something that would be able to play games (Bioshock, Sims, etc.) on high to ultra settings. Of the number of cards I've looked at, I've narrowed it down to the Sapphire R9 280X Toxic, GTX 770 (with the Titan cooler), GTX 760 or GTX 970; I have a Seasonic X560 80 Plus Gold PSU, so would I be able to run a GTX 770? The 280X Toxic requirement is 750w, but would my PSU still run it?
Thanks for your help!
Where do I start? Two companies, various brands and what seems like 1,000's of different models. I have to make it clear than I do not have a 1080p HD monitor - the highest resolution my monitor goes to is 1600x900. That said, I'm not even completely sure what my budget would be because of this. All I know is I want something that would be able to play games (Bioshock, Sims, etc.) on high to ultra settings. Of the number of cards I've looked at, I've narrowed it down to the Sapphire R9 280X Toxic, GTX 770 (with the Titan cooler), GTX 760 or GTX 970; I have a Seasonic X560 80 Plus Gold PSU, so would I be able to run a GTX 770? The 280X Toxic requirement is 750w, but would my PSU still run it?
Thanks for your help!