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  • DelusoDeluso ✭✭✭✭
    I wouldn't recommend to upgrade the card since we have 2 major (1 major and 1 small actually) problem with OP's rig.
    1 - PSU limit - Need to change it first if you want to upgrade the card.
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    2 - CPU bottleneck, since OP's is using Intel's i5-4460, I wouldn't go above nVidia GTX 960 (GTX 970 with slight bottleneck) or R9 270X for AMD cards. If you do this regardless, the new card would be pointless since the bottleneck is real and your money wasted on limited board + processor with no actual gain of performance.
  • ElinLoveElinLove ✭✭✭✭✭
    Deluso wrote: »
    I wouldn't recommend to upgrade the card since we have 2 major (1 major and 1 small actually) problem with OP's rig.
    1 - PSU limit - Need to change it first if you want to upgrade the card.
    tmpDt9b.jpg

    2 - CPU bottleneck, since OP's is using Intel's i5-4460, I wouldn't go above nVidia GTX 960 (GTX 970 with slight bottleneck) or R9 270X for AMD cards. If you do this regardless, the new card would be pointless since the bottleneck is real and your money wasted on limited board + processor with no actual gain of performance.

    100% agreed on 1, specially since these PSUs are usually of pretty low quality variety (yep, standard problem with off the shelf machines), not even necessarily lack of power, but in this case that too.

    CPU bottleneck tho I doubt heavily. I bet that if there is any bottleneck it will be quite minimal. Tho for TERA, ANY CPU in existence is a bottleneck so...
  • DelusoDeluso ✭✭✭✭
    It's easy to say until you've learn it the hard way. The bottleneck may be minimal according to own assumption for Tera. But I think Tera isn't the only game you will play. So, think ahead. Unless of course if you want to change your processor too in near future. Just make sure of everything before spending your money.
  • UeniriUeniri ✭
    Thank you everyone for your feedback :)
  • ElinLoveElinLove ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2017
    Deluso wrote: »
    It's easy to say until you've learn it the hard way. The bottleneck may be minimal according to own assumption for Tera. But I think Tera isn't the only game you will play. So, think ahead. Unless of course if you want to change your processor too in near future. Just make sure of everything before spending your money.

    I think it's exactly the other way around: for TERA the bottleneck is always a thing, there's just no processor in this planet that is enough to run this pile of mud code at 60 FPS. Other games tho, are (may be) better optimized, making better use of the GPU power and all cores (be they 4 on the i5 or the 8 threads on the i7 + the many other Rizen ones). Just as a little informative/entertainment a video showing a ridiculous bottleneck case, an i5 750 overclocked to 3.7 GHz, a friggen 1st generation i5, with a GTX 1080, vs a system with a GTX 980 Ti and Core i7 4790K overclocked to 4.5 GHz. There you can see what a properly optimized game does with the hardware and how much it impacts your performance:

    I am NOT saying about video encoding and such, this case the CPU difference will be a huge difference, since we talking about gaming tho I don't think it would be the case.
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