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Upgrade advice....again

Alamat

Alamat

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So, on my sig, I have an i5-6600K at 4.2 paired with a 1080ti. Using an HTC vive on it as well as play other games on it. Doing well actually but I may have $500 to spare (use it or lose it kinda thing). Is it worth it to jump to an i7-8700, new mb, RAM, etc? I know it may end up costing more too....
 
My opinion, no. If it's "use it or lose it", put it in a retirement account or buy some stocks. If it's a gift card for a place which sells only electronics, maybe then, but I would expect to notice the $500 gone a lot more than the performance gained.
 
If it's money that must be spent on hardware for some reason, you could consider a video card downgrade to a 1070Ti, and then selling your 1080ti for significantly more than that.
 
Depending on what you do with the system.

However looking at the fact you have a 1080ti, which tells me gaming... the answer is going to be NO.

Unless you need those extra 2 cores / 8 threads, you wont see any improvement especially in gaming.

A better use for that money would probably be spent on a 2TB Micron 1100 SSD, so you will have plenty of space for your steam library

You can check out my mini review here:
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/mini-review-on-the-micron-1100-ssd.2536625/

And when or if you do upgrade, you can always take that SSD with you on your upgrade, so its not wasted capital.
 
aigomorla said:
Depending on what you do with the system.

However looking at the fact you have a 1080ti, which tells me gaming... the answer is going to be NO.

Unless you need those extra 2 cores / 8 threads, you wont see any improvement especially in gaming.

A better use for that money would probably be spent on a 2TB Micron 1100 SSD, so you will have plenty of space for your steam library

You can check out my mini review here:
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/mini-review-on-the-micron-1100-ssd.2536625/

And when or if you do upgrade, you can always take that SSD with you on your upgrade, so its not wasted capital.
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I strongly agree that the OP purchase a 2TB SSD as that will be the best use of his money to upgrade.
 
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