Upgrading CPU?

[Hendricks3]

I am trying to upgrade my wife prebuilt pc is a lenovo y720 cube 15ish with a 7640x, it currently has a i3 7100. Does it work? She will be streaming

[Crunchy Dragon]

No, but you can buy an i7-7700 for her.

 

The 7640X is a terrible CPU anyway, and requires the LGA 2066 socket and X299 chipset. The current i3-7100 is an LGA 1151 CPU.

[Streetguru]

10 minutes ago, Hendricks3 said:

I am trying to upgrade my wife prebuilt pc is a lenovo y720 cube 15ish with a 7640x, it currently has a i3 7100. Does it work? She will be streaming

Unlikely to be worth it, is it a standard form factor case?

Because for streaming and not much more money you can  get an R7 1700 at $160 + $80 motherboard and have 8 cores for that.

[Hendricks3]

No its a mini itx

[Streetguru]

5 minutes ago, Hendricks3 said:

No its a mini itx

Ya but is it just ITX with a standard power supply?

And what country are you in?

And what's the GPU in it?

[Hendricks3]

Us it is a standard psu 

[Streetguru]

5 minutes ago, Hendricks3 said:

Us it is a standard psu 

Then the motherboad costs a bit more, though it's still not that much more than a used 7700 unless you can find one really cheap like less than $100

the RAM can move over just fine

 

But if you have a really low end GPU in it, it might be worth just waiting or replacing that first.
 

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/tmXWmq
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CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($159.50 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - B450 I AORUS PRO WIFI Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard  ($119.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $279.39
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Some buy it now ones are listed at $260

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-i7-7700-Kaby-Lake-Quad-Core-3-6-GHz-Processor-LGA-1151/223487348625?epid=17019367446&hash=item3408e24f91:g:uqAAAOSwd9dcuQzM

[Hendricks3]

Found a i5 7500 for $70?

[Streetguru]

9 minutes ago, Hendricks3 said:

Found a i5 7500 for $70?

That's hardly an upgrade and still wouldn't be too great for streaming.

 

I'd either replace your CPU with an R7 1700 + motherboard

 

or what GPU do you have in the system?

[Hendricks3]

She has a 1050ti i plan to upgrade too

[Streetguru]

3 minutes ago, Hendricks3 said:

She has a 1050ti i plan to upgrade too

Then I'd go for the Ryzen 7 1700 with the new motherboard instead of the 7700, you could just try using shadow play to stream for now.

There's not much point in upgrading the 1050ti yet, best to wait for NAVI to drop a bit later in the year and get that, or see nvidia's 1660/ti price drop a bit.

And if they only have a 1080p 60hz display, I'd go for a 1080p 144hz display with the new GPU.

[Hendricks3]

Ok thanks 

[trevb0t]

Generally speaking if you want to stream footage as you game, the multi core performance out of Ryzen is the recommendation. As stated above, the 1700 at a good price is a great CPU for the job. The 2600X is similarly priced and also a great choice.