Hey Everyone,
Over the last couple of months I've had a pretty overwhelming urge to upgrade my desktop. I've been running with the same rig for about 5 years. I was hoping upgrading my GPU would satiate my urges, but with some of the new games I bought I wanted to go a bit further. I was running with an Nvidia 660 TI and decided to take a change on the Radeon RX 590 Fatboy (seemed like a good middle with benchmarks between the 1060 and 1070 for a decent price point - open box was only $210). When I bought the new GPU, it came with the new Resident Evil 2 and Devil May Cry 5 (as well as TC's The Division 2- but I'm probably not going to play that much). I was just hoping to max out what graphics I can in those games. The rest of the rig has
I5 3570k (OC to 4.4 with a $30 fan cooler)
8Gb DR3 ram
Crucial M4 SSD
ASrock z77 pro 4 motherboard
I guess my questions boil down to: Is the CPU bottlenecking me enough to warrant a $400-500 upgrade (new CPU, Motherboard, RAM)? Or should I just drop some money into a better cooler and try to get the CPU OC'd a little higher? How much better are the newest processors if I'm getting what seems like a similar frequency?
Thanks for any help,
John
