Still rocking a GTX 970 (2014) why should I upgrade?

[Idlemind]

I'm in my 40's with a healthy collection of games and regularly buy games every month.

Haven't really noticed any real reason to upgrade even though my computer is getting on in age. It has a SSD drive for steam and some i5 processor and a modest video card.

However, getting that itch to upgrade for no rational reason. Maybe I wanna play in 4K or buy a decent VR set.. but my old man brain is happy with 1080p res for the most part and dunno if VR would be a novelty or not.

I'd say my budget for a new PC would be around $3K.

Anyone that went through a similar scenario, would like to hear your regrets or lack thereof just mentally preparing myself for the inevitable lol.

[Supafly]

New Nvidia GPU due soon so if you don't need the upgrade I'd wait.

Doesn't matter when you upgrade as the will always be something better just around the corner. If you really want to upgrade something right now maybe just a bigger and faster SSD, maybe M.2 format or go for a better monitor. 1440p or 4k. Personally I'd say 4k as you could still run games still at 1080p as it'd scale better than a 1440p to 1080p display.

[Idlemind]

Suicidal Monkey eredeti hozzászólása:

New Nvidia GPU due soon so if you don't need the upgrade I'd wait.

Doesn't matter when you upgrade as the will always be something better just around the corner. If you really want to upgrade something right now maybe just a bigger and faster SSD, maybe M.2 format or go for a better monitor. 1440p or 4k. Personally I'd say 4k as you could still run games still at 1080p as it'd scale better than a 1440p to 1080p display.

Yeah for sure there is always something better coming out. Thanks for the tip about the new GPU I will hold-off and see what that's about.

I was just wondering if someone could say "you need to upgrade because your missing out on x y z" but nothing really compelling about upgrading right now.

I guess the biggest and only reason I can come up with to upgrade would be VR support.

[_I_]

more vram, more efficient, faster

it similar to 1060 3g performance

[Supafly]

Idlemind eredeti hozzászólása:

I was just wondering if someone could say "you need to upgrade because your missing out on x y z" but nothing really compelling about upgrading right now.

I guess the biggest and only reason I can come up with to upgrade would be VR support.

Missing Ray tracing but not that many games support it. Nvidia Wise you'd need RTX 20 series but waiting till 30 series soon would be better and worth the wait. Can't comment on AMD GPU as don't pay attention to their GPUs.

Again VR support would still be better for the next Gen GPU. At the very least when they release soon the current RTX 20 series soon will hopefully drop in price and you can get a better deal on them.

Valves Index is currently quite popular but does have a long wait as it keeps going out of stock. If you're interested you could consider ordering that shortly before the new GPUs come out so you'll have it for when they do.

[pasa]

we already had this thread with 200 replies, use the search instead of making a new instance

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

If you want to upgrade then better to wait towards end of the year when all the new stuff slated for autumn release have been launched.

[Andrius227]

Is your 1080p monitor 60hz or higher? High fps is the best thing to upgrade to. Thats the one thing that is truly gamechanging in my opinion. Going back to 60hz after experiencing 144hz is literally painfull. And yeah a gtx970 is probably not quite good enough for 144fps, even at 1080p.

[emoticorpse]

In your case, I'd wait for the 3000 series gpu and new ryzen cpu's to go with it and that will last you a while.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Step up to 1440p, 144hz

Ryzen 3700X
B550 Motherboard
2X 8gb ddr4 3200
At least two ssd, one for os+apps; one for Games.
Gtx 1660 Super or better. This would be similar performance to gtx 1080, which is miles above a 970.
Gold certified modular 650w psu from a reputable brand. Corsair, EVGA, BeQuiet, Seasonic, FSP Group.

Modern Case with zero 5.25 inch bays, for better airflow.

For Optical drive needs, get a USB 3.0 DVDRW or Bluray

Make your own Win10 64bit USB flash drive and install that fresh.

[SHREDDER]

ME TOO. STILL A MONSTER. I have it since November 2014. Since then i have upgraded evrything else. Monitor and psu in 2016 cpu ram motherboard and hdd in 2017. I have RYZEN 7 1700 16 GB DDR4 3200MHZCL15 GTX 970 G1 GAMING DELLP2416D 24'' 2560X1440 60 HZ IPS. I upgrade it when it stops rujnning the games at max settings but GTX 970 is the first graphics that after so long it continues running all games at max settings 1440p even if most of them not at 60 but at 40 or 50 fps. Why we should ugprade? For ray tracing of course! I will get RTX 3080TI if it can run max settings 1440p and max ray tracing without DLSS. According to these specs it looks a good upgrade from RTX 2080TI https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-ti-rtx-3070-ampere-gaming-gpu-specs-rumor/ but we cant be sure yet about how well ray tracing will run. I will also get a MP 600 SSD. Rest of the system(cpu ram motherboard and the two hdds) will remain as it is.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

A monster, lol no... it's bare minimum for 1080p games and many today are way too demanding for it.

[Autumn_]

SHREDDER eredeti hozzászólása:

I upgrade it when it stops rujnning the games at max settings but GTX 970 is the first graphics that after so long it continues running all games at max settings 1440p .

I can get a GT 710, and force max settings in any game - does that mean it's a monster?

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Andrius227 eredeti hozzászólása:

Is your 1080p monitor 60hz or higher? High fps is the best thing to upgrade to. Thats the one thing that is truly gamechanging in my opinion. Going back to 60hz after experiencing 144hz is literally painfull. And yeah a gtx970 is probably not quite good enough for 144fps, even at 1080p.

I'd have to second this; even if you're not interested in VR, or high resolutions, or all that, the one thing that still has benefit, even to just web browsing is 120-200hz, and I do recommend upgrading to it.

[Agent]

Because it's out of date, I mean you just have to look at the benchmarks of what kind of gpu you can get today, it's been 6 years....

[Autumn_]

Henry eredeti hozzászólása:

Because it's out of date, I mean you just have to look at the benchmarks of what kind of gpu you can get today, it's been 6 years....

Out of date doesn't mean out of usefulness.

[Agent]

Autumn_ eredeti hozzászólása:

Henry eredeti hozzászólása:

Because it's out of date, I mean you just have to look at the benchmarks of what kind of gpu you can get today, it's been 6 years....

Out of date doesn't mean out of usefulness.

Want to play any modern title max settings at a decent framerate it kinda is. I could still use a gtx 750 ti but doesn't mean it's anygood.