best upgrade suggestions for my pc

[Morgiee]

Hi all so financially i cant afford to rebuid my system at the moment but its in need of improvmnts.  The latest games can run on it but having to lower the graphics settings a fair bit.  In a year or so ill be able to upgrade it fully.  This is my system to the best of my knowledge haha its 8 years old now.

 

Asus Maximus VIII Hero motherboard

 

Intel I5 6600K clocked to 4ghz

 

16gb DDR4 corsair 3000mhz ram (board supports up to 32gb)

 

Samsung 860 evo ssd (main drive and in raid 0 with an identical drive)

 

6TB HDD

 

nvidia 1070 FE (custom watercooled with a FE AIO watercooling setup)

 

EVGA Gold+ 650w PSU

 

I Try to run flight sim 2020 on lower settings and Warzone.

 

but also use it as a media pc and daily use.

 

 

Will Ram upgrade be enough? as it might be a while before 3000 series gpu are on the scene and the highest cpu i can go is a 7700k I7

 

Thanks for your advise.  

[jaslion]

Just leave it as is. A 7700k costs as much as moving to a new platform and getting a better new cpu. You already have plenty of ram for games. It is simply your cpu being the problem here and upgrading to a 7700k is throwing money down the drain basically. Might as well prepare yourself to a new platform that you then use for when you fully upgrade your system and put a new cpu in the board instead of having to buy everything again.

[dizmo]

Honestly, just wait. There aren't really any worthwhile, currently obtainable upgrades.

[richodude]

upgrading ram will most likely do effectively nothing. I would say at least a 9700k but you say thats not possible. 3070 is about the best you can get without a psu upgrade

[jaslion]

1 minute ago, richodude said:

upgrading ram will most likely do effectively nothing. I would say at least a 9700k but you say thats not possible. 3070 is about the best you can get without a psu upgrade

Motherboard doesn't support a 9700k. Intel locked out the 100 and 200 series boards of getting the 8000 series and such even tho the socket is identical.

[richodude]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

Motherboard doesn't support a 9700k. Intel locked out the 100 and 200 series boards of getting the 8000 series and such even tho the socket is identical.

sounds like that would be a great investment for the future too. You could get a fancy one that takes advantage of pcie 4.0 and new generation cpus and be good for the next 10 years.

[Morgiee]

6 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Just leave it as is. A 7700k costs as much as moving to a new platform and getting a better new cpu. You already have plenty of ram for games. It is simply your cpu being the problem here and upgrading to a 7700k is throwing money down the drain basically. Might as well prepare yourself to a new platform that you then use for when you fully upgrade your system and put a new cpu in the board instead of having to buy everything again.

Thanks for this.  Just for referance what do you mean by new platform?  Thanks 

[CommanderAlex]

1 minute ago, Morgiee said:

Thanks for this.  Just for referance what do you mean by new platform?  Thanks 

By new platform, @jaslion means a whole new socket/chipset. 

[jaslion]

14 minutes ago, Morgiee said:

Thanks for this.  Just for referance what do you mean by new platform?  Thanks 

New socket like going to am4 or whatever LGA intel is on right now. A ryzen 3100 or i3 10100 match/beat the 7700k whilst a combo with them + decent board costs the same and gives you plenty of upgrade potential.

[BetteBalterZen]

Well, to be honest, and especially if you play in 1080p, buy a new motherboard, CPU and RAM. 

 

The GTX 1070 is a perfect card still for 1080p @100FPS-ish.

Well, that's what I would do, if you play in 1080p.

[WkdPaul]

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