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upgrading from 1080s (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Soap10116@lemm.ee to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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Howdy yall. I'm looking to upgrade my current setup. I had SLI 1080s back when the 1080s came out but now no games support SLI, so I'm essentially down to a single 1080 and I'm struggling to play some new games.

Anyway, looking for a suggestion for a new "future proof" card that is compatible with my setup and if there are significant bottlenecks elsewhere. Im also not too keen on all of the different versions of each card. I assume my i7 needs to be updated as well but I'm not that bright. Willing to spend the $ but don't want something that's unnecessary.

Here's my current setup (I have 32gb memory instead of 16gb) https://pcpartpicker.com/b/3h4CmG

Yes I picked it because of the name Yes I understand I made poor financial decisions in 2016, but hey, it's gotten me this far. Just lookin for help

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[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man, that's how I was with my R9 290s. Things kicked absolute ass in games that supported Crossfire. Games that didn't ran like absolute ass unless they were older.

I was looking for a GPU. Maybe a 5600 XT. My wife surprised me with an RTX 4070 for my birthday, which was a whole hell of a lot more than I was ever considering. Other specs include a 4790K and 24 GB of RAM, and all of my games run so much better. My CPU is a definite bottleneck here, but I don't feel inclined to replace it soon. I'm playing at 1080p60. I don't think I need to do anything crazy soon. I'll do the PSU soon since I built this rig around 2014. Just to be safe that it doesn't pop anything if it goes out lol

Anyway, I like the performance I'm getting with the 4070 on my rig. And your CPU will be less of a bottleneck than mine. I still don't know if it's worth the price........but what tf even is anymore?

I mostly play sims. I've got 400+ hours each in Cities 1 and BeamNG. It handles Cities 2 just fine. I'm running that at a pretty solid 30-45 FPS. Cities 1 also runs around the same framerate. BeamNG holds 60 FPS full-time now. Haven't played much else recently so idk how good my experience is going to be as a general statement.