Budget Upgrade tips required!

[DekkiTheBot]

Hello all, I have a pretty budget PC. I only really play games like Siege and CoD whilst streaming to Twitch. 

 

Recently I've had major, major frame drops even when I'm not streaming (I play Siege at 144hz, so drops down to low 30s are super noticeable) 

 

I done the only thing I could think of doing to find the problem, which was look at CPU/GPU usage and I've noticed my CPU is holding my GPU Back,

I don't have tons of money at the moment. So a new platform is basically a no-go at the moment.

What CPU can I upgrade too, that will maximise my performance. 

My current specs are: 


i5-4690k (Oc'd to 4ghz) tiny overclock I know but it's stock cooler and isn't stable anything higher.

AsRock H97M-ITX/ac

8GB DDR3 

GTX 1050ti 

Corsair CX600/750 (I can't remember it's exact wattage) 

 

If you guys can think of any other budget upgrades I can make to this system that would be great. 

I probably have a max of around £150. (I'm on reduced work hours due to an injury at work and have no money) 

 

Thank you beautiful people in advance :)
Dekki

[Dkunky]

Whats your price range for an upgrade bud?

 

[Dkunky]

Just now, Dkunky said:

Whats your price range for an upgrade bud?

 

NVM Probably a 4790K or a 4770K. youll need all them threads unless you can squeeze together a little more for a 1600af build and a used b350-450 mobo or even an A320 board. 

 

 

[DekkiTheBot]

13 minutes ago, yaboistar said:

your best budget upgrade would be to get a cooler for your CPU and push it balls-to-the-walls. Noctua NH-U12s would be a great choice for this CPU and i reckon you could see 4.6 out of it. the 4790k is not much of an upgrade from that cpu.

my old 4690k ran 4.7GHz 24/7 under an AIO and that's a b i g performance bump. the guy i gave it to curreently runs it at 4.7 as well.

if your 8GB is only single channel, consider getting another stick (identical, mind) and make it 16GB of dual channel ram. this doubles the memory bus width that your computer can use to communicate with the memory.

Noctua NH-U12s noted,

My 8gb is dual channel HyperX. Have looked into 16gb, just hard to find a decent deal. Everywhere I've looked ddr3 costs the same as ddr4 and it's not worth it then. Do you know what a 4790k would oc to with the Noctua? 

Must be honest this CPU was my first overclock so I'm pretty new to it.

[SkilledRebuilds]

My 4790K is also stable at allcore 4.6Ghz 1.312v

A single 120mm radiator cools it with ease. (70-72*c stresstest, up to 80*c max with Encoding incAVX worloads)

I'd think.. most thick or well developed Noctua Air coolers would be just as fine, better or worse but all dealing with it under extended loads nowhere near throttle temps.

[DekkiTheBot]

I was looking at water cooling my system, like I have plenty of space left in my case (Went from a Micro-ATX case to a mid tower) Although I'm unsure if the hassle of maintenance would be worth the extra performance. I'd probably only run a CPU loop anyway, as my GPU wouldn't gain from watercooling. I don't overclock it or anything like that.