I’m Looking for a Video Card to upgrade my current system. Its a little old, but don’t have the money now to do a full blown upgrade. So I want to upgrade to 32gb of ram, and I’m looking at one of the GeForce RTX 2600 Super cards. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Glad to be a member of the community !!!!!
This is the current specs:

• CAS: NZXT Switch 810 Hybrid Full Tower Gaming Case w/ Dual 140MM Pivot Fan Slots and Front USB 3.0 (Black Color)
• CD: LG 14X Internal Blu-ray Burner, BD-RE, DVD+RW, 3D Playback Combo Drive (Black Color)
• COOLANT: Standard Coolant
• CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-3970X Extreme Edition Six-Core 3.50 GHz 15MB Intel Smart Cache LGA2011 (All Venom OC Certified)
• CS_FAN: Maximum Enermax 120MM Case Cooling Fans for selected case (Maximum Silent Operation) [+29] (500-1,200 RPM T.B. Silence Black Color with Red LED Twister Bearing 8-14 dBA [+0])
• FAN: CyberPower Xtreme Hydro Liquid Cooling Kit 360MM w/ XSPC Rasa 750 RS360, Triple Fan(CPU & GPU Liquid Cool Capable, Extreme Overclocking Performance + Extreme Silent at 18dBA)(All Venom OC Certified)
• HDD: 120 GB SAMSUNG 840 Series SATA-III 6.0Gb/s SSD - 530MB/s Read & 130MB/s Write (Single Drive)
• HDD2: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)
• MEMORY: 16GB (4GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Quad Channel Memory (Corsair or Major Brand)
• MOTHERBOARD: * (3-Way SLI Support) GIGABYTE X79 G1 Assassin 2 Intel X79 Chipset Quad Channel DDR3 ATX Mainboard w/ UEFI DualBIOS, Creative 20K2 HD Audio, Killer E2100 LAN, USB3.0, SATA-III RAID, 3 Gen3 PCIe X16, 2 PCIe X1 & 1 PCI
• NETWORK: Onboard Gigabit LAN Network
• NOISEREDUCE1: Sound Absorbing Foam on Side, Top And Bottom panels [+29]
• OS: Microsoft® Windows 10 Professional  (64-bit Edition)
• OVERCLOCK: Ultimate OC (Ultimate Overclock 30% or more)
• POWERSUPPLY: 1,000 Watts - Thermaltake TP-1000M ToughPower Modular, 80 Plus Silver Certified, Quad SLI Ready, CrossfireX Ready & Active PFC Power Supply
• GeForce GTX 680 4GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card 

Thanks Cool for the reply and the suggestions. I wasn’t locked into the 32 GB upgrade, if it wouldn’t be that much of a benefit moving up to 32, I’d rather spend the money elsewhere, like on a SSD that you mentioned. It’s actually my 12 year olds machine, I’m just looking to help him upgrade it for Christmas and renew an old passion of mine that unfortunately was put on old when family life took over . He’s got 2 monitors, a Benq 144hz 1080p and a Specture 4K. 

Thanks for the code and the reads, definitely adds some insight into my situation 

My .02 cents would be to skip the memory .  
 
go for the Super 2060 or the Super 2070  if you can - although I didn't see the budget $$ you were thinking.
 
https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=08G-P4-3163-KR
https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=08G-P4-3175-KR

Might be helpful to know your use and habits for the computer. that would help us know what might be the best targeted upgrade for you. Not seeing anything that really jumps out at me as a must have upgrade in those specs. There are some things that you might do though.

Going with a PCIe adapter card and M.2 NVME for a reaplcement for the Samsung 840. Maybe go with a Samsung 970 EVO or Pro 250GB as a replacement. It'll be a bump up in drive speed from SATA.
 
I also agree on the video card. It could use an upgrade. Not super important if you're just desktop use though. Depends upon what you do with the computer.

 
Moved to General Hardware.

If you go that route, make sure to do a full windows install when moving from NVIDIA over to AMD. Uninstalling the previous drivers doesn't remove everything and some of the previous NVIDIA drivers will conflict with AMD's stuff, causing some odd things like random lock-ups.
 
The RTX 2070 Super is where AMD can no longer contend with NVIDIA. Here is a nice chart to see how all of the other GPU's stack up to each other:
https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_1660_super_gaming_x_review,11.html

Thanks for all the suggestions guys. As of now I think I’m leaning towards one of the 2060 super cards, now just to pick out of that bunch  I think I’m going to pass on upgrading the memory for now and maybe go with Brad’s suggestion of adding a PCIe adapter card and M.2 NVME for a replacement for the Samsung 840. Any suggestions on a good adapter card ? Research I’ve done so far seems like they are all pretty generic. 

curbilly
Hey Guys, got another question before I pull the trigger on the Video Card, what is your thoughts on going up to 2070 or even the 2080. Is the price increase worth it and if so what version would you go with. Any help would be greatly appreciated before the wife changes her mind lol

This:  https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=08G-P4-2289-KR
 
Or a 2080S Hydrocopper, or a 2070S or 2080S with an aftermarket block.  You can get a basic 2070S for under $500 and put a block on it for $150 or less, then hook it up to your cooling kit.
 
 

curbilly
Wow that was a great deal and unfortunately I missed out on it... I’m beyond pissed right now. Do you know if they do deals like that often ?

Just get the 2070S Black and put a block on it. Make sure the block is material-compatible with your existing cooler - likely copper..  The 2070S Black has been under $500.
 
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/88drxr/evga-geforce-rtx-2070-super-8-gb-black-gaming-video-card-08g-p4-3071-kr
 

RainStryke
It happens often, but they go fast when they do. Not sure you would want a watercooling card that requires a custom watercooling loop though.

Here is a decent open box deal:
https://www.newegg.com/asus-geforce-rtx-2080-dual-rtx2080-8g-evo/p/N82E16814126340R

He already has a 360mm watercooling kit on his CPU.

a 2080 & higher card  might be considered overkill if you are running a monitor at only 1080p resolutions........
 
 

Nice! That should be an awesome addition to your gaming PC.

Hey All, hope everyone had a great holiday. Well I’ve installed the new card today and I thought it went off without any issues until my son tried to play his games (Fortnite, Rocket league ). Unfortunately each game has frame rates that start off decently, but quickly plummet to single digits and eventually the game and the computer crash. Tried adjusting the settings to the lowest possible and still the same issues. Tried a clean install of the drivers and GeForce Experience and still the same issue. In the process of using DDH to uninstall all the drivers again and see what happens. Any suggestions would help out greatly !!!!!!

I had X1 installed, everything seemed good. Now I can’t even stay on the computer for more than 5 minutes and the video signal drops and my monitors got into sleep mode, but the computer and is still on and the video card is still on.