idiggory the Fussy wrote:
Okay, how this this? It's slightly more than I wanted to spend, but I think I'm willing to do it if it's worth the cost (say, the better case/PSU).
Also, for a few bucks more I could step up to a
750w Gold PSU that's modular. Worth the upgrade?
The 660 GTX has one major fatal flaw. It doesn't have the full 256 memory pipes that it should have. It only has 128. That means it really can't utilize all the bandwidth it has available. The card should be much faster than it is.
Rosewill is Newegg's generic no name piece of junk hardware brand. Avoid anything critical by them.
idiggory the Fussy wrote:
Redditors and folks over at Toms Hardware seem to really like the GTX 760...
So right now I'm mostly torn between whether or not I want to just shell out $20 more for that card or not, because I'm having trouble finding benchmarks that actually compare the 270 against the 760.
The one other hangup I have is whether or not I should just toss out $40-50 more now for a quad core i5, and just not have to think about upgrading for that much longer...
Gah. Damn PC building and the fact that there's always another upgrade just tens of dollars later.
760 GTX is a good card. That Seasonic power supply is also a much better manufacturer than the rosewill one, so even though the rosewill one should be theoretically adequate if you aren't ever planning on running a second video card in linked mode, the seasonic would be a better choice.
The motherboard is better. Gigabyte makes good stuff. I'd still pick an Asus over it personally but I have no major issues with them either and I have used them when an asus board was not available.
The CPU upgrade is probably worth it if you factor in the time it takes to swap out a CPU. You're pulling the case out, blowing the dust out, pulling the cpu fan, cleaning the surface, pulling the cpu, putting the new one back in, adding the case fan back in, re-plugging everything in, etc. Is the time to do that worth more to you than the cost of the higher end CPU?