I’m thinking about building a modest Bazzite HTPC with a bunch of spare parts lying around the house. Here’s what I’ve got:
- Intel 4770k
- Asus Z87-A LGA 1150 Motherboard
- NVidia GTX 1060 3gb GPU
- 16GB DDR3 RAM
- 640W Corais PSU
- SilverStone Grandia GD09 HTPC case
I’m assuming that the Nvidia GPU with a lackluster 3gb VRAM is probably the weakest link of the whole system, but I don’t know what a reasonable upgrade might be for an older system (that probably doesn’t support stuff like resizable bar, which I think is needed to get optimal performance of newer GPUs?).
What do you think? What would be the best bang-for-the-buck upgrade to a system like this, assuming the main use case would be gaming and media consumption? What would you do if you happened to have this set of parts lying around in the spare parts bin?
Looks similar to my old config except my 1060 had 6gb. I’d say this is pretty balanced, if you upgrade the GPU you’ll get bottlenecked by CPU, at least in my experience that was the case. I guess a smaller GPU upgrade (say, to a 1080 Ti) could work but I’m not sure it’s worth it financially. I’d say keep it as is.
Do you think looking at this, a CPU with more cores and a bit of an upgrade to the GPU would work? Though the performance wouldn’t go up significantly for the cost (including removing the old CPU/GPU). Cost-benefit doesn’t seem to be huge here.