Recent content by Rezza

This isn't constructive. A threadripper build will be way out of my budget.

Cheers, Ill be doing that for the time being. Just keeping my eye out for some decent deals on the Palit Jetstream 1080. Ill also keep an eye on the 1070ti to see if some really good deals materialize. It will probably be Feb/March ill be upgrading the cpu, mobo, ram. Although I doubt ill be...

Ill be using an 8600k. I've managed a build come in at 620 euros. This will come down over the coming months. With all 4 components gaming perf will be increased over the current system with the 680. The real benefit will come with productivity tasks.

But you're missing my point. It just a minimal upgrade to old tech. To me it is a waste of money to spend 80ish euros on a 2600k and also 100ish euros on ddr3 memory. It will last me 3 months at most. Total waste. I dont want to always be stuck in a loop of waiting, or holding off. I'd like...

Unfortunately for me, no matter what I do, my 2500k will not run stable at anything above 4.5ghz :( I've tried numerous times since first getting it. The 2500k does still have some life in it.. but how long? It's hard to deny the fact that it is starting to show its age. Mine has had a good run...

Also, please keep in mind that I plan on keeping a build for the long term. I've had my current setup since probably the beginning of 2012. So i would hopefully get 5 years out of this upcoming build. Anyway the point im trying to make is the graphics card may seem like overkill for the time...

Maybe a PCIe ssd at a later date, but i've recently upgraded to the 850 evo and its pretty good. Im happy with it for the moment I have a 1080p monitor, just need to get it from my brother. I know I wont be using the card to its maximum potential on the current screen, but until I get the...

This is advice to live your life by :laugh: I've decided to push the buget to 1080's but I've heard the Palit Jetstream performs very well and overclocks very well - due to its massive cooler. The good part is that its one of the cheaper 1080's.

It is overclocked to 4.5, on water. I said that in my original post I'm currently looking at the Palit Jetstream gtx1080. Read some really good things about it. Size isn't a concern for me as I'll never sli

Whilst I can see the merits of Ryzen, i won't be choosing any of the lineup. I like the oc'ing side that is possible with intels chips and ryzen just doesnt seem to offer that. This link makes for very interesting reading. Thank you! I'm kind of leaning towards a GPU upgrade after reading...

500 euros - Which is fine for a big GPU. I have 650 in all, but I want to split it 50/50 and dont really want to go over 500 on the GPU. I think I can get the whole in at about 1000 euro if i take into account potential price drops whilst saving. I thought that may help. Get the GPU now and...

Ah yes, with the current screen it probably will be. I'll still get a good bump in fps from it though? I have a 1080p screen that I'll be 'borrowing' from my brother. I think I'll deal with the bottleneck for the time being. Bumping in a 3 series proc may be false economy imo, unless I can find...

Currently running a set-up I got back in 2012. It's served me very well and I couldn't be happier with my 2500k. I love this chip. The problem is that is starting to get outdated and I'd love some new tech... So i've just come into a bit of cash (500 euros) which will either allow me to...

On a side note - I know my hdds are crappy and rubbish and probably at least 10 years old. But will they have an noticeable, negative, effect on the fps? As I had never thought they would, or I've never experience using an ssd so know no better. I know they provide me with terrible load times -...

Thanks for those links, that does put it into perspective a bit. I had read that the jump to previous iterations wasn't really worth while, but the newer skylake was worth the investment - but going by those numbers it really doesn't seem to have the wow factor performance upgrade I was led to...