upgrade or Not ?

[johnt31]

Hi all,

I need help and recommandation for upgrade .

 

Here my brother has a PC but I would like to know if it is wise to upgrade his CPU by a i5 6600/7600 or 6700/7700 i7 knowing that the k version will not serve my taste in view of the cm

 

or he upgrade onbetter generation intel 8/9 th or  Amd  ryzen series  3xxx

he's mainly gaming Rainbow Six seat, Rust, FFXV, Gta V, rust , conan exil on 1080p in 27" 

 

Configuration:

Cpu: intel core i5 6400 + rad stock

Cm: MSI H110m-pro VD

Ram: Kinston value 16Go 2*8Go

Gpu: Nvidia Gtx 1080

SSD: kingston A400 120GO +860QVO 1TO

HDD: 1TO seagate barracuda

Alim: Corsair cx 500w
 

thank for you reply

 

 

[dizmo]

Depends how much you can get it for.

Chances are if you go Ryzen you're going to want to upgrade that RAM too.

[johnt31]

 

on eBay I have 6700k for about 200 -250 euros in used part

[seagate_surfer]

Go to the 8th or 9th gen, those CPUs have a minimum of four cores and most likely you will find good prices.

[veikko315]

To give you a good idea of whether or not you need to upgrade the CPU we have to know what refresh rate your monitor is, whether or not you are satisfied with your current setup, whether you game casually or competitively, as a starting point..

 

Monitor refresh rate is important, because getting a substantially higher average FPS than the refresh rate of your monitor provides little value for the amount you have to invest in that. For example, if you're running a 240hz monitor at 1080p on your GTX 1080, but your old i5 6400 is significantly bottle-necking in your specific gaming use case (the game you are playing), causing you to achieve sub 240 FPS regularly, and you are not satisfied with this, because you're a keen eye, (unlike Linus and his staff) then upgrading your CPU would make sense. This same logic applies for 144hz as well.

 

Ideally, you just want to exceed the refresh rate of your monitor in FPS, MOST OF THE TIME if you're a casual gamer, and ALL OF THE TIME if you're a competitive gamer. So if your 1080p monitor is 144hz, aim for 144 average FPS if you're a casual gamer in your favorite game, and if you're a COMPETITIVE gamer then you want to exceed that 144 FPS all of the time. Going beyond this is of little value. I'm not going to do much hand holding here, you'll have to look up your own specs and make the decisions by yourself based on the thought process and logic I have outlined.

 

Also, if you're looking for a reasonable upgrade path for your 1080 based system, I'm a pretty big fan of the i5 9400F, as far as a plug and play system with no ability or requirement to OC, (no offence you don't seem like you would enjoy messing around with stability and overclocking). I'm sure lots of people will show up to tell me I'm wrong >but muh cores / threads.. Really doesn't matter for what you're doing. You just need a CPU that can keep up with that GPU overall and the 9400F will do that at a very reasonable price.

 

Right now you're decently bottlenecked, but again that may or may not matter if you're already exceeding in FPS the refresh rate of your monitor. 

 

tl;dr

 

case 1: FPS>REFRESH-- no point in upgrading pc without buying a higher refresh rate monitor first

case 2: FPS<REFRESH-- upgrade only if not satisfied 

 

[johnt31]

The screen that my brother is is an LG 27gk750F 27 "to 144hz in memory he playing in 1920x1080 in ultra preset.

he does not play in competition it is rather casually.

in general if possible he tries to play in ultra.

 

[johnt31]

I controlled the cpu and gpu loads on his pc on rainbow six siège and he screen was lg 2253v 60hz   1920x1080

GPU load 80% and  69°c

CPU load 100% 55°c

window " ctrl alt sup  on rainbow six siège  utilisation 50%  os on as 400 kingson 256 gb

 

is this normal  ?

 

[seagate_surfer]

13 hours ago, johnt31 said:

I controlled the cpu and gpu loads on his pc on rainbow six siège and he screen was lg 2253v 60hz   1920x1080

GPU load 80% and  69°c

CPU load 100% 55°c

window " ctrl alt sup  on rainbow six siège  utilisation 50%  os on as 400 kingson 256 gb

 

is this normal  ?

 

May be not, in special because you are only running one game.