Upgrading parts...

[Tom80765412]

Hi everyone. I am looking for some advice for upgrading parts in my CPU. Below are my specs:

 

 

I mostly play games on it and now I feel like system is getting too old as I am getting low fps in newer games. I cannot completely upgrade all the parts at once so suggest me which part should I upgrade first and which after that....

[Pixelfie]

I'd recommend CPU and motherboard. What's your budget?

 

Also it looks like you don't have XMP enabled. If you enable it in BIOS it should give a little bit more CPU performance.

 

Also it really depends on the game. You shouldn't expect big differences in performance because this system is pretty balanced.

[BeastyB314]

4 minutes ago, Pixelfie said:

I'd recommend CPU and motherboard. What's your budget?

 

Also it looks like you don't have XMP enabled. If you enable it in BIOS it should give a little bit more CPU performance.

 

Also it really depends on the game. You shouldn't expect big differences in performance because this system is pretty balanced.

Agreed. 16 GB of ram is fine, but if it's not rated for more than 3000 Mhz, I would try to get that at least (if you are planning to upgrade your cpu). Some cpu's may bottleneck speeds, so make sure to get one that can support DDR4.

[dizmo]

Try to find a used i5 8400. Other than that, just use what you have. Nothing you can buy affordably now is going to drastically increase your performance.

[dizmo]

2 minutes ago, BeastyB314 said:

Agreed. 16 GB of ram is fine, but if it's not rated for more than 3000 Mhz, I would try to get that at least (if you are planning to upgrade your cpu). Some cpu's may bottleneck speeds, so make sure to get one that can support DDR4.

Uh, no. Spending money on new RAM isn't a worthwhile investment at all. You're going to see single digit performance gains.

[Pixelfie]

8 minutes ago, BeastyB314 said:

Agreed. 16 GB of ram is fine, but if it's not rated for more than 3000 Mhz, I would try to get that at least (if you are planning to upgrade your cpu). Some cpu's may bottleneck speeds, so make sure to get one that can support DDR4.

Yes, but if you upgrade RAM you might as well get 12th gen CPU's with DDR5.

[Tom80765412]

34 minutes ago, Pixelfie said:

I'd recommend CPU and motherboard. What's your budget?

 

Also it looks like you don't have XMP enabled. If you enable it in BIOS it should give a little bit more CPU performance.

 

Also it really depends on the game. You shouldn't expect big differences in performance because this system is pretty balanced.

Can you recommend which CPU and mobo I should go for?

 

Ok let me see about XMP.

 

I installed BF2042 open beta today and I was getting terrible FPS even on the lowest settings. Not sure if it is just going to be beta or I will see same results in final release as well but thats why I made this post, I want to see big differences after upgrade...

[Tom80765412]

30 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Try to find a used i5 8400. Other than that, just use what you have. Nothing you can buy affordably now is going to drastically increase your performance.

So basically if I want to drastically increase performance... I will need a whole new system?

[Tom80765412]

33 minutes ago, BeastyB314 said:

Agreed. 16 GB of ram is fine, but if it's not rated for more than 3000 Mhz, I would try to get that at least (if you are planning to upgrade your cpu). Some cpu's may bottleneck speeds, so make sure to get one that can support DDR4.

Can you recommend any particular CPU?

[Pixelfie]

12 minutes ago, Tom80765412 said:

Can you recommend which CPU and mobo I should go for?

 

Ok let me see about XMP.

 

I installed BF2042 open beta today and I was getting terrible FPS even on the lowest settings. Not sure if it is just going to be beta or I will see same results in final release as well but thats why I made this post, I want to see big differences after upgrade...

Depends on the budget. Usually a B560 and 10400F or 11400F is good value. If you can find one without F for cheaper get that, it's the same but with an iGPU. 5600X is also good with a B550 but will cost a bit more.

[Jonathan Lee]

Upgrading to either 8700 or 9900 might help, depends on what price you can get for them though. What games are you struggling to play? What's the GPU/CPU usage while playing that game?

[Tom80765412]

18 minutes ago, Jonathan Lee said:

Upgrading to either 8700 or 9900 might help, depends on what price you can get for them though. What games are you struggling to play? What's the GPU/CPU usage while playing that game?

Mostly games released this year like Cyberpunk, Deathloop and BF2042 (beta). Had to refund both cyberpunk and deathloop. Cyberpunk was performing terrible even on the lowest settings and it looked too horrible.

Deathloop although wasnt lagging or anything but VRAM usage was 5302MB out of 5200 MB available even on the lowest settings.

I was afraid it might burn my GPU or something if I keep playing....

[Jonathan Lee]

Yea, it's looking like a complete PC upgrade for the games your looking to play unfortunately... I feel like a GPU upgrade would help, but then you would probably be CPU bottlenecked pretty bad with the new GPU's.

[Tom80765412]

11 hours ago, Pixelfie said:

I'd recommend CPU and motherboard. What's your budget?

 

Also it looks like you don't have XMP enabled. If you enable it in BIOS it should give a little bit more CPU performance.

 

Also it really depends on the game. You shouldn't expect big differences in performance because this system is pretty balanced.

 

 

I turned on XMP but I am not seeing much difference....