Upgrading to a new Gaming PC

[coops_05]

Hi All,

I am looking at upgrading to a more up to date PC. My current one is 6 years old but I think its time to upgrade.

Please can you advise me if this fit is suitable for a decent upgrade. I have around 1650 to play with but would reduce the cost if necessary.

I am going to purchase this monitor to go with the propose PC : Acer Nitro VG271 PBMIIPX Full HD 27'' IPS LCD Gaming monitor. It has a refresh rate of 144mhz, 1ms response, 1920 x 1080p Full HD.

I play EVE Online and want to do so in high settings.

I don't mind if I am to sacrifice mods for lower end or even high ones too

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[Oussebon]

Do you play any other games, or will you be looking to do so?

I think with this budget (~£1600 for the PC, ~£200+ for the monitor) you should be looking at 1440p gaming, which you can manage easily with a bit of rebalancing.

And what is the spec of your old PC? especially the GPU and CPU.

 

[coops_05]

intel i5-4590 @3.3 GHZ

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

and I only play EVE

I look forward to the bit of rebalancing

 

[Scott]

You could actually hit 4k gaming with that budget. With 1440p in mind you have some change left over for a decent monitor....

Note I selected a better wireless card. If you don't need wireless stick with the stock option for scarce use or drop it altogether if you'll never use it.

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[Oussebon]

I don't play Eve, but I suspect the RTX 2070 Super is utterly ludicrous overkill for Eve Online 1080/1440p, since you can run AAA titles at high settings at 4k on it.

I ran Eve Probe on my i7 3770k + RTX 2060 (non-super) system below, at 1440p. Long story short, the RTX 2060 breezed through the benchmark, only dropping to the 70s in one part, and usually above 150fps, often 200+.

The section where there was a heavy drop in framerate to 30-45 fps seemed to be neither CPU nor GPU related, as each CPU thread was below 50% load and the GPU load was 30-40%. Game engine limitation at a guess. I downclocked my GPu by 400MHz and it made no difference to that scene.

So with the build above by @The_Scotster I would drop the GPU to the RTX 2060 Super. I'd also drop the CPU to the R5 3600 (non-x) as you can barely measure the performance difference with a magnifying glass and it's not worth £38 - unless you really want to play BL3 or The Outer Worlds (but you said literally your only game was Eve Online, so I assume not).

If Eve Online really is your only game, drop the SSD to 512gb. As it's way more than enough, even if you do casually dabble in the odd extra title.

That would take £220 off.

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You could buy the 1440p 144hz 'equivalent' of that monitor you were going to buy (the Acer Nitro VG271UPbmiipx, instead of the Acer Nitro VG271Pbmiipx - gotta hand it to Acer for those super clear monitor names...)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-VG270Ubmiipx-27-inch-Gaming-Monitor/dp/B07P6S61TS?th=1

And you'd have a system + monitor at a higher resolution for the same price as the original system quote.