What CPU should I upgrade to?

[sikk]

I am looking to upgrade my CPU as it is having trouble performing certain tasks. I'm curious as to what the best option would be regarding my current build or if I should even upgrade it at all.

Current CPU: Intel® Pentium® Processor G4560

GPU: Nvidia 1050ti

Memory: 24G of ram

Motherboard: GA-B250M-DS3H (Gigabyte)

[boggy77]

any i5 or i7 form the 6000 or 7000 series would work well for you. 

[Quackers101]

any budget?

[Downkey]

2 minutes ago, sikk said:

I am looking to upgrade my CPU as it is having trouble performing certain tasks. I'm curious as to what the best option would be regarding my current build or if I should even upgrade it at all.

Current CPU: Intel® Pentium® Processor G4560

GPU: Nvidia 1050ti

Memory: 24G of ram

Motherboard: GA-B250M-DS3H (Gigabyte)

What tasks is it having trouble performing? 
What country are you in?
What is your budget?

If your doing alot of multithreaded tasks and have a decent budget, a platform change to ryzen would be a good move.
If your mostly gaming, and have a low budget, you could snag a i5 7400 used (if you can find them at a good price)

[sikk]

Just now, Quackers101 said:

any budget?

Not exactly sure what a good cpu costs nowadays. Looking for something in the midrange I suppose.

[Downkey]

1 minute ago, sikk said:

Not exactly sure what a good cpu costs nowadays. Looking for something in the midrange I suppose.

Well what is the midrange.... (price wise, do you mean 200 - 300?)

[sikk]

5 minutes ago, Downkey said:

What tasks is it having trouble performing? 
What country are you in?
What is your budget?

If your doing alot of multithreaded tasks and have a decent budget, a platform change to ryzen would be a good move.
If your mostly gaming, and have a low budget, you could snag a i5 7400 used (if you can find them at a good price)

I am having some trouble running a modded minecraft server while playing simultaneously. I am able to do so but it has its moments.

I am in the US.

[sikk]

2 minutes ago, Downkey said:

Well what is the midrange.... (price wise, do you mean 200 - 300?)

Yeah that sounds good. 

[Quackers101]

2 minutes ago, sikk said:

Not exactly sure what a good cpu costs nowadays. Looking for something in the midrange I suppose.

like you do have things that are around 200-300 dollars for a cpu and 100-200 for a board.

you can go cheaper to maybe 200 dollars bundle, if its any better than what you have.

[boggy77]

1 minute ago, sikk said:

I am having some trouble running a modded minecraft server while playing simultaneously. I am able to do so but it has its moments.

see if you can find a 6700 or 7700 for $100 or less. otherwise, time for a new platform

[sikk]

7 minutes ago, Quackers101 said:

any budget?

200-300

[Downkey]

Just now, sikk said:

Yeah that sounds good. 

What country are you in? If your in the US this would work very well.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$199.99 @ B&H
Motherboard	ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$64.98 @ Amazon
Memory	OLOy 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16 Memory	$59.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$324.96
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-08 10:13 EST-0500

 

1 minute ago, boggy77 said:

see if you can find a 6700 or 7700 for $100 or less. otherwise, time for a new platform

This is also a good idea, but for some stupid reason older i7s are very expensive due to the "premium" name of the i7

[sikk]

1 minute ago, boggy77 said:

see if you can find a 6700 or 7700 for $100 or less. otherwise, time for a new platform

Yeah I feel like I could use an upgrade. My build was originally a budget build.

[Mateyyy]

3 minutes ago, Downkey said:

What country are you in? If your in the US this would work very well.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$199.99 @ B&H
Motherboard	ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$64.98 @ Amazon
Memory	OLOy 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16 Memory	$59.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$324.96
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-08 10:13 EST-0500

 

This is also a good idea, but for some stupid reason older i7s are very expensive due to the "premium" name of the i7

OP's already got DDR4 memory in their current system, so there's no point in buying a new kit really.

[Downkey]

1 minute ago, Mateyyy said:

OP's already got DDR4 memory in their current system, so there's no point in buying a new kit really.

The speed probably isn't up too par but I guess it isn't that big of a deal. 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$199.99 @ B&H
Motherboard	ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$64.98 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$264.97
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-08 10:21 EST-0500

 

[sikk]

1 minute ago, Downkey said:

The speed probably isn't up too par but I guess it isn't that big of a deal. 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$199.99 @ B&H
Motherboard	ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$64.98 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$264.97
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-08 10:21 EST-0500

 

I don't think changing my motherboard is worth doing. Unless completely necessary. Although, it seems my current one only supports intel.

[Quackers101]

yes, but they are very expensive for some of them and being in that generation. but probably a jump in performance for you.

while you could jump AMD to get more cores if minecraft likes extra cores, a newer board could give some newer features too. although it is not the newest board. so unless you find a cheap CPU upgrade/deal, you could do that and save money for a new GPU or wait more for an mostly full upgrade.

[sikk]

1 minute ago, Quackers101 said:

yes, but they are very expensive for some of them.

while you could jump AMD to get more cores if minecraft likes extra cores, a newer board could give some newer features too. although it is not the newest board.

so unless you find a cheap CPU upgrade/deal, you could do that and save money for a new GPU or wait more for an mostly full upgrade.

True I believe mine currently has 2 cores so I could still get more cores by going with a better intel CPU.

[jaslion]

7 minutes ago, sikk said:

I don't think changing my motherboard is worth doing. Unless completely necessary. Although, it seems my current one only supports intel.

It is because those i7's that it supports are no joke the cost of the whole board + amd 3600 upgrade whilst the i7's are worse in every way. So it makes no sense to get a worse cpu that is terrible value if you can just get a much much better one with a motherboard swap for basically the same price. Also if you ever want to play modern games a quad core no ht i5 is not enough for any AAA game and some indie games already. The old i7 6700/7700 is just cutting it for AAA games whilst the 3600 has no problem so if you ever want to play more demanding games in the future or upgrade your gpu for it the 3600 can play it all whilst any i5 your board supports can't and the i7's won't last too much longer for that either.

[sikk]

3 minutes ago, jaslion said:

It is because those i7's that it supports are no joke the cost of the whole board + amd 3600 upgrade whilst the i7's are worse in every way. So it makes no sense to get a worse cpu that is terrible value if you can just get a much much better one with a motherboard swap for basically the same price

How significant of an upgrade would switching to an amd 3600 be?

[jaslion]

Just now, sikk said:

How significant of an upgrade would switching to an amd 3600 be?

Well you get 6cores and 12 threads compared to your current 2core and 4 threads. Compared to the i7's you get 2core and 4 threads more whilst also having better single core performance (the thing minecraft loves).

[Downkey]

1 minute ago, sikk said:

How significant of an upgrade would switching to an amd 3600 be?

You would get a a good boost in gaming performance, and a MASSIVE boost in multithreaded applications. (