I have a 3rd gen i5; I upgraded from a 660Ti to a 970 a while back and it was a noticeable improvement in games.
But that was a while ago; I'd be less interested in putting money into my box now, since I know it's relatively close to being replaced.
I have a 4th gen Intel 4790 with full 32GB memory and Samsung 860 1TB SSD. I upgrade from the IGP Intel HD4600 to Nvidia LP 1050 TI 4GB GDRR5 card and it really did not notice any difference in boot up time, web browser speed or 4K streaming video.
I have a thread on the 1030 on this topic already shown below:
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/any-benefit-in-upgrading-to-the-geforce-gt-1030-card.2540445/
Working of a teachers salary, I upgrade in stages. I am planning to upgrade next year once Intel releases the 10nm family of desktop processors. I figure the new Video cards, like the 2060 or AMD equivalent would be good for some years to come. Thank for the info.
Thank you for the reply. Yes, upgrading to any video card over the on board video is going to show huge improvements. I already have a 660ti, which is still a decent and a huge upgrade to the onboard. I was more curious if the new boards had maxed out the bandwidth on the older systems.
I upgraded from 3rd gen cpu and IGP to a GTX 1060 6GB, the difference is night and day. 660ti is old as hell, you will gain massive performance with a new GPU. With your cpu you can actually go as high as a GTX 1070 without the CPU being too big of a bottleneck .
Also AMD is much better now for CPU's, and their latest 7nm cpu's will be coming out very soon, should be out by March, so you should definitely switch to AMD, Intel won't even really have any 10nm CPU's until the end of 2019.
AMD haven't had major driver issues in almost a decade. In fact most recently it's been mostly Nvidia that have been in the negative spotlight for numerous reasons, including not fixing very old bugs and having a lot of issues with multi monitors and the sort of weirder setups, while AMD have been better.I have spoken to a few people about switching to AMD. In my younger days, it was to much work to keep AMD working. I work on networks all day, when I get home it want 100% trouble free and reliable systems.
Is AMD processors there?
Same question about AMD Video Cards, I left them around the time the bought out ATI. The driver support was terrible, hence my move to Geforce.
AMD haven't had major driver issues in almost a decade. In fact most recently it's been mostly Nvidia that have been in the negative spotlight for numerous reasons, including not fixing very old bugs and having a lot of issues with multi monitors and the sort of weirder setups, while AMD have been better.
Second gen Ryzen processors are amazing, and I'm certain their 7nm 3rd generation is going to be even better. I would have definitely upgraded to a R5 2600x if I had the money, but I would save up till the summer and upgrade to a 3rd gen AMD processor.
I see some 970's out there for 125-150, double that and I get the faster 2060, warrenty and knowing it should last 5-7 years. Where the 970, I be worried it last 1-2. Like buying a card, what hell did the previous user put it through and why are they getting rid of it.Forget the 2060, you can buy a second-hand 970 for pocket change and your system will run perfectly.
Edit: or what ozzy said.
So what are your thoughts about Intel better on single threaded applications v AMD on Multi thread? Think of real world application. Most of what I run is business application, Virtual servers, and when I game with my son it is on SWTOR, WoWS and Destiny. The articles out there suggest, Intel better for my application.