Question:Bottleneck optimization

Soulgriever92 · November 30, 2018

My wife's computer has had some serious performance problems as of late. I recently upgraded her GPU and intend to install an SSD for Christmas. I was wondering if after I finish said upgrades if I would see any noticeable gain by also upgrading her cpu.

Before any upgrades were made she was running the following.

Windows 7 (ya ya I know it's not 10)

FX-6300

16Gb ddr3 (not sure on freq)

Evga gtx660ti

And a 1tb hdd that has had i/o degradation over time

I've swapped her 660 for an EVGA gtx970 SSC and this Christmas she will be getting a Samsung 860 evo 1tb l know those 2 changes are going to make a huge difference in performance compared to what shes use to. However with the new hardware how much is the fx6300 holding her back and would she see a noticeable difference with something like an fx8350?

Yes I know she would see speed differences with windows 10 especially boot times which is her largest complaint but I really don't feel like listening to her complain about learning a new os yet. Thanks for the help

Jumballi · November 30, 2018

The cpu will have some noticeable gains, but so tiny compared to the vga card and ssd that you could go either way.

Majestic · November 30, 2018

Not that much tbh, not worth investing into AM3+ anymore.

LIGISTX · November 30, 2018

I would just be worried that CPU can't keep up... I guess it really depends what the main use of the system is. If gaming is just a "sometimes", maybe its fine. Honestly, with an SSD, normal computer tasks seem fast even on slow hardware. I have put an SSD in very low level i3's from the Gen 3 era and they no shit feel about as fast as my rig in sig.

But, just cuz the PC feels snappy, doesn't mean FPS won't still suck. Run a benchmark and see what FPS you are getting. If its not that far off from what a 970 should get (unfortunately I bet it will be), your fine. If not, maybe a CPU change, or for that matter, an entire mobo and CPU swap may be needed.

Soulgriever92 · November 30, 2018

Ya I figured if the hdd is reading to a crawl I think the ssd would be more than enough for her. Should have seen her reaction to the gtx970 ssc. She loaded up WoT and just looked at the wall and screamed it has textures, I never knew it had textures.