Want to upgrade my computer for this game, need some advice.

[Madjames]

Here is what I use. It is roughly 10 months old now.

Level 10 GT snow edition Thermaltake case

MSI GeForce GTX 980 DirectX 12 GTX 980 GAMING 4G 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support G-SYNC Support Video Card

MSI Gaming X99S Gaming 9 ACK LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core i7-5820K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.3 GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W BX80648I75820K Desktop Processor

G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Desktop Memory Model F4-2400C15Q-16GRK

Thermaltake Water 3.0 Extreme S CLW0224-B Water Cooler

Crucial MX100 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT256MX100SSD1

Western Digital 150 GB VelociRaptor SATA 3 Gb/s 10,000 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Enterprise Hard Drive - WD1500HLFS
------------Everything above this line was $2,124.90 off of Newegg.com-----------------------------

Gaming Peripherals

Corsair K95 RGB with Cherry MX Brown switches (Bday gift. I hate mechanical keyboards but this was the only RGB keyboard with 18 macro keys at the time. I DESPISE razer products just saying.)

Mad Catz Rat Pro X Gaming mouse (Won this in a contest Madcatz was having.)

Corsair 1500 headset (Seriously the most comfortable headset I have ever owned in my 20 years of gaming)

Lastly my monitor

Sanyo 52" Class LCD 1080p 120Hz HDTV , DP52440 (There is no lag on this what so ever. I love being able to sit 5 feet away.)

Please note that my motherboard has a streaming engine on it. I currently stream on twitch using Xsplit Broadcaster. My frames never dip below 100 FPS even with in dungeons or raids on the setup stated above.

My recommendation? Get a system like mine if you can afford it. Although pick up to date parts.


My system is currently overclocked with the OC Genie button on my botherboard to 4.0 GHZ. All are within acceptable and good ranges for a modest overclock such as mine. That is why I recommend MSI motherboards.

[Krindor]

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There's a lot of wasted money in that build, no reason to have any Intel-E processor and not even i7 for gaming. It's kinda more useful for streaming but even then a i7 should be more or less enough. Also unless you're using some type of program to use the extra power of the GPU, i.e. DSR the 980 isn't worth it. You're not going to have any significant difference running over 60hz. Also don't use those one button OC, they will usually use a lot more voltage than required. Just OC it yourself if you want to OC it.

[NoahArks]

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If you dont want a insane upgrade, just get a r9 380. You won't be bottlenecked with a higher end card either way. You got a pretty open upgrade path.

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I gotta be honest. That's a lot of wasted money that could've gone into different things. Mostly because the 2011-3 is enthusiast grade. It doesn't out perform a consumer grade i7 in daily tasks or in gaming. It's the same with the GPU. The normal gtx 980 is too expensive for what i's worth. The 970 would've been enough since there's only a 15% difference. The AIO cooling is fine, but thermal take has a bad rep with psu's and AIO cooling. Crucial SSD's arent that great, they're cheap, but not well made. Basicly what I'm saying is that your system is useless in the sense of using it as a game/stream PC. It's a nice system, but useless. The corsair headset was kind of a miss purchase if I'm going to be honest. That headset is worse than one you can buy for 70bucks (steelseries siberia v2).

I'm currently using:
MSI r9 390 8gb oc edition
corsair vengeance 1866Mhz white/black heat sinks 32gb ram ( Thought I had faulty ram, win10 had a issue. I kept the memory)
Asus sabertooth z97 mark 1 (sabertooth fanboy. Could've gotten the same features for 100bucks less)
Fractal design 750w psu
i7 4790k 5ghz OC.
Corsair h100i
Fractal design define R5 pearl black
Samsung evo 840 1tb (got this for free, after I already build my PC)
Samsung evo 850 250gb
Western digital black 1tb

Peripherals:
Corsair k70 cherry mx keyboard (I don't use the leds)
Corsair saber laser edition mouse
Beyerdynamic DT 990 PRO 250 Ohm open headset velour earbud edition
MicroAMP HA400 (money value is insane with the quality it has)

Monitor:
iiyama ProLite B2783QSU-B1 1440p 75hz 1ms