Upgrade rig... thoughts?

**RhysJD3** · 12-24-13, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by gehn

One decent upgrade to that GPU and your CPU will instantly become your bottleneck. If you want to stick with NVIDIA, buy ANYTHING currently out in the 700 series, they are all 4.5 times better than what you have. If thats too much money, get a 650 Ti, thats 3 times better than your card.

^ - this

The 920 was a solid processor but I agree with Gehn. You're probably going to be holding back any decent new video card you get due to CPU/MOBO. I'd recommend saving until you can replace all the parts. Or buy the video card now but plan to replace the rest later.

**ab1tar** · 12-24-13, 08:23 AM

Bane, we basically have the same rig, are you my evil twin?

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**Bane** · 12-24-13, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by ab1tar

Bane, we basically have the same rig, are you my evil twin?

I should be asking you that

No evil here

I know that the CPU would be the bottleneck for the video card. I'm used to upgrading piece by piece though, and I was just noticing that games like to stutter a bit with my GTX285 =/

Gumby, I don't have the liquid capital to spend on an R9 290. Probably pushing it when I think of a GTX770 for 359.99, but it's still desirable. I'll just sit on my $100 amazon gift card for a bit for a new build then if you guys think that I should upgrade all at once.