shanks86

so i've been looking at replacing the guts of my PC; i can see the ryzen 5 3600, ryzen 7 2700 and the i5 8400(?) are all priced similarly... which is best for gaming via gamestream? i've always leaned to intel, however google appears to say with the new consoles coming in, more cores will start to matter more (although i'm sure they said that when the last gen 8 core cpus came out). Advice would be greatly appreciated.

would the S be slower/ the same as my current 3450? the clockspeed looks a fair bit higher and the online aggregators show it 10% faster (are those sites nonsense..?)

unfortunately I can't overclock this- which is why i was thinking 3770s- its about half the price of the K (& I cant see much of a difference stock to stock).

would i see any difference for the 2070 i've just brought with the i7 3770s from my 3450, or should I just leave it for the time being? same Q re: RAM. What is weird is at 1080p60 there is next to no input lag, but it becomes awful if I crank it up any further, although there is no stuttering etc- am just wondering maybe the 780 isnt up to it?

Hello all, I am a light gamer; I mainly play AAA single player campaigns, all through gamestreaming with moonlight to my imac. Having had a bad experience with gears 5 barely even running, I tried a few other newer titles & found surprisingly I'm able to play 1080p max/ high still. When I tried to set the stream to 1440p/4k60 in some older titles & drop other settings (eg doom 2016), fraps reports it as 60fps, my network is all powerline connected, yet there is massive input lag. My first question is- is this because of the CPU or the GPU? I had resolved to not buy new kit, however I saw a brand new OEM 2070 ITX for 329 & hit buy it now... my second Q is- if i upgrade to a sandy bridge i7 & 16gb ram (£120 for both) will I be okay for the next couple of years, or should I just run the system as is with the CPU being a ?large bottleneck for those 2-3 years and then change out the entire system? I've always had my system a little bit ahead of the current console generation, so I can meet min requirements of almost all major releases, however the hype train for the new xbox and PS5 is saying they will be monsters (although when the last ones came out my system below built in 2012 comfortably outdid them with its original GTX 580 (RIP). current specs: i5 3450 H61 biostar keyboard 8GB RAM EVGA GTX 780 SC (soon to be RTX 2070)

Thanks- I ran the gears 5 benchmark in 1080 (it wasnt pretty) & the result shows it is 87.15% GPU bound (? what does that even mean- like would an upgraded card help?)- when i tried to look at task manager CPU utilisation looked close to 100%, but i'm not sure if that is because i alt-tabbed & only have 8gb RAM. Thanks again.

Hello all, hope you are well. I have a PC I use for very occasional steam streaming to my imac 5k (which is my primary work computer these days); honestly i game a couple of times a year these days, however with the lockdown I decided to play some newer games, ie: gears 5. short story- it ran like a pig & was averaging 20-30fps at 900p res with medium/high settings. even 720 low was 35fps; the VRAM usage was 2.3gb at 1080, so I am assuming my card is just rubbish now (I thought the 780 would be better than a 1050 which appears to get decent fps in gears) My question is if I upgrade the GPU (EVGA nvidia 780SC), will it make any real difference, ie will the rest of my rig be a total bottleneck to a new card, or is it worth getting something like a 1660 super? Tbh am just looking for 1080p high detail gaming in things like new COD/ Gears- nothing too fancy. If pointless, will likely just move over to a console as my use is really not enough to justify £1000 on a new PC Specs of my PC: i5 3450 8gbRAM 1TB HDD EVGA 780 SC 3gb