Should I Upgrade my CPU?

[PressC]

I currently have a system with a GTX 970, 8gb of ddr3 RAM and a core i5 4590 (4c 4t). For obvious reasons, getting a new GOU currently is not a viable choice, so I was wondering if it would be worth it to just upgrade my CPU at the moment. I was thinking of getting an i5 11400 and 16gb of ram with a new MB, but I don't know if just upgrading the CPU would give me any meaningful performance boosts. I was wondering what some of you guys think 

[svmlegacy]

100% depends on what you do. If you browse the web or play minesweeper... Obviously it won't make a difference.

 

If you're doing more modern gaming, it won't help much there, either. Definitely not worth the price of new components (Upgrade the whole system when GPU prices are tolerable.)

[PressC]

10 minutes ago, svmlegacy said:

100% depends on what you do. If you browse the web or play minesweeper... Obviously it won't make a difference.

 

If you're doing more modern gaming, it won't help much there, either. Definitely not worth the price of new components (Upgrade the whole system when GPU prices are tolerable.)

That option doesn't help much either, since these prices will likely stay until next generation, so I guess console gaming it is. 

[TetraSky]

Considering  you'd need a new motherboard, CPU  and RAM, maybe even a new PSU if you want to  replace the aging  one... It would be a costly upgrade for not that much benefits depending on your use case.

 

You can also try some of the game streaming services if you want to stay on PC and not go the console gaming route. It's cheaper than a whole new system and a console, all while lasting you until  the next gen when things finally cool down ( and hopefully all scalpers get sucked in a rogue blackhole and disappear by that point...). It's honestly what I'm about to do when the next big game that I really want to play comes out.... Stadia is like C$12/month and for double that I could play Far Cry 6. Would be cheap if I play one or two new release and just cancel the subscription after that.

[PressC]

3 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

Considering  you'd need a new motherboard, CPU  and RAM, maybe even a new PSU if you want to  replace the aging  one... It would be a costly upgrade for not that much benefits depending on your use case.

 

You can also try some of the game streaming services if you want to stay on PC and not go the console gaming route. It's cheaper than a whole new system and a console, all while lasting you until  the next gen when things finally cool down ( and hopefully all scalpers get sucked in a rogue blackhole and disappear by that point...). It's honestly what I'm about to do when the next big game that I really want to play comes out....

What game streaming service do you recommend? I heard game pass has some incredible titles. But I'd like to know if you have some other recommendations 

[Brooksie359]

I would say it probably depends on the game but I wouldn't expect the performance increase to be massive. It could help with frametime consistency in some games though so it might be worth if you are experiencing some stuttering issues in some games 

[TetraSky]

7 minutes ago, PressC said:

What game streaming service do you recommend? I heard game pass has some incredible titles. But I'd like to know if you have some other recommendations 

Depends on the games you want to play.

If you want games from Ubisoft, it's pretty much just Stadia (with the higher paid Multi-Access tier that includes Cloud gaming from ubisoft)

Xbox Game Pass if you want microsoft games....

Even Sony has a streaming service nowadays in the form of PS now.

Amazon Luna is in early access in the US so you could possibly request access to it.

Geforce Now....

 

It  seriously depend on the games you want to play and on which service it is found on.

 

That said, I believe stadia is limited in their free selection of games that comes with their monthly payment, but you all of them pretty much  have free trial months where you can try for a month and unsubscribe if you feel like it's lagging too much.