Upgrade opinions wanted -- crazy overkill or reasonable?

[BenWah]

I am considering upgrading to Nvidia 1070 or 1080, leaving other components as is.
Upgrading motherboard/cpu/ram would cost a lot for little gain (am I wrong?)
My current setup, more than 2 years old:

GTX 770 2GB
Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3, 16gb ram & SSDs
1920 x 1200 (unusual ratio) 24" BenQ BL2411PT

Extremely happy with my odd resolution monitor, won't go to 4k.
Really hate VR, won't ever do SLI.
I game lots, finances are good -- easy to justify splurging on a video card even if it is somewhat overkill.
I have wanted more performance many times, though I also play some other less demanding games.

Are the 1070/1080 cards total overkill for 1920 X 1200 resolution?
Is my CPU underpowered for this upgrade?
What do you think?

 

[cyclone3d]

I chose 1070 or 1080.

Your current card is definitely holding you back.

I am more of an AMD type person, but anything that has the performance level of an R9-390 with 4GB+ RAM should hold you over for quite a while.

 

[The Fragile]

The 1070/1080 would both be overkill for that resolution, but overkill is perfectly acceptable for gaming. Just stick with the 1070 if you're going to upgrade.

 

[Stryke1983]

I'm in a similar position, coming from a 670. While I like the idea of a 1070 I'm leaning toward the more budget friendly option of a RX 480 or 1060 though. If they'd kept the 970s $330 price point I'd have probably stepped up a tier, but not at $380.

Probably the last upgrade I'll do before doing a full new build. My 2500k moderately over clocked is reaching the end of its usefulness I think.

 

[heatlesssun]

If you're only going to do 1080P (1920x1200, used to be more common) then a 1070 is fine. It'll be a huge jump over the 770 2G.

 

[silent-circuit]

I'm in a similar position, coming from a 670. While I like the idea of a 1070 I'm leaning toward the more budget friendly option of a RX 480 or 1060 though. If they'd kept the 970s $330 price point I'd have probably stepped up a tier, but not at $380.

Probably the last upgrade I'll do before doing a full new build. My 2500k moderately over clocked is reaching the end of its usefulness I think.

One, no, the 2500K is not even close to being "near the end of its usefulness."

Also. $330, $380... you're going to let a $50 price difference force you in to a lower performance tier for the single most important component of a gaming machine. Something you likely intend to keep for at least 2 years given you're coming from a 670.

Doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

 

[The Fragile]

Also. $330, $380... you're going to let a $50 price difference force you in to a lower performance tier for the single most important component of a gaming machine. Something you likely intend to keep for at least 2 years given you're coming from a 670.

Yup.

$330 = buyer's remorse, disappointment



$380 =

 

[silent-circuit]

Granted, if he goes RX 480, that may be different assuming all rumors are true and it'll be $200 with performance equal to or greater than a GTX 980. That's plenty assuming he's running 1080P and at basically half the price is really hard to argue with.

 

[The Fragile]

I'm definitely awaiting some real-world 480X benchmarks. I never trust anything AMD or NVIDIA says at their conferences.

 

[Stryke1983]

Granted, if he goes RX 480, that may be different assuming all rumors are true and it'll be $200 with performance equal to or greater than a GTX 980. That's plenty assuming he's running 1080P and at basically half the price is really hard to argue with.

That's basically it. I'm looking more in the 200-250 range this time (rather than the $380 on my 670). So $330 would have been something I could just about justify if there is a big enough performance gap, but $380 is pushing it.

I've had my system for around 5 years now with just a GPU and SSD upgrade in the meantime, so I figure a GPU upgrade at that level will let me put off a full rebuild for another 2 years or so.

For the OP it makes more sense to go to the 1070 seeing as budget isn't an issue and he's coming from one generation newer than me.

 

[PGHammer]

I am considering upgrading to Nvidia 1070 or 1080, leaving other components as is.
Upgrading motherboard/cpu/ram would cost a lot for little gain (am I wrong?)
My current setup, more than 2 years old:

GTX 770 2GB
Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3, 16gb ram & SSDs
1920 x 1200 (unusual ratio) 24" BenQ BL2411PT

Extremely happy with my odd resolution monitor, won't go to 4k.
Really hate VR, won't ever do SLI.
I game lots, finances are good -- easy to justify splurging on a video card even if it is somewhat overkill.
I have wanted more performance many times, though I also play some other less demanding games.

Are the 1070/1080 cards total overkill for 1920 X 1200 resolution?
Is my CPU underpowered for this upgrade?
What do you think?

I have much less CPU than you do, and I'm going GTX 1070; while you have 1920x1200 today, do you plan on staying there?
I'm looking at 1070 because I'm NOT planning on staying at 1920x1080 (where I am now); GTX 1070 + 4K-ready display (G-SYNC or no G-SYNC) can be had for $1000USD for the pair (if you can find the GPU in stock).

 

[silent-circuit]

I have much less CPU than you do, and I'm going GTX 1070; while you have 1920x1200 today, do you plan on staying there?
I'm looking at 1070 because I'm NOT planning on staying at 1920x1080 (where I am now); GTX 1070 + 4K-ready display (G-SYNC or no G-SYNC) can be had for $1000USD for the pair (if you can find the GPU in stock).

If you want 4K you're shooting yourself in the foot going with a 1070.

 

[The Fragile]

If you want 4K you're shooting yourself in the foot going with a 1070.

Not according to benchmarks, but a 1080 would make much more sense for 4K.

 

[BenWah]

I have much less CPU than you do, and I'm going GTX 1070; while you have 1920x1200 today, do you plan on staying there?

Glad to hear my CPU is fine for the ugprade.

I might stay at 1920 x 1200 until my monitor dies.
I really like the unusual tall aspect ratio for other tasks, doesn't give me headaches for long hours of viewing.

If I had to get a monitor I'd get a 30" 1600p (Tall 1440p, 2560x1600)
um, would that resolution justify 1080 vs 1070?

 

[silent-circuit]

Honestly, it's about what you want. How demanding you are. Me personally, I'd take nothing less than a 1080 at 2560x1440 or higher.

 

[DooKey]

NM

 

[Araxie]

If you want 4K you're shooting yourself in the foot going with a 1070.

It's not only that but also the fact that he is planing to pair that gtx 1070 with a stock clocked dual core G3258 the bottleneck there it's going to be massive at any resolution... that logic it's so flawed, buy a 1000$ monitor, 400$ GPU keep to use the cheaper and crappiest posible CPU you can put on that mobo. LoL. Thats going to be funny.

 

[cageymaru]

GTX 1080 because there are games like Mirror's Edge Catalyst that are really demanding for it already. If you have the money might as well get the current best.