Need help with upgrade

[Chouffeke]

Budget (including currency): €300

Country: Belgium

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Halo Infinite, Lost Ark, GW2, nothing to heavy

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

Momentarily I'm running a MSI GTX1070 i5 - 6600K, Gigabyte Z170-HD3 motherboard, 16gb RAM, CX650 Power Supply. I have no clue which component I should upgrade within my budget and need help. Budget isn't fixed to  €300.

[RAS_3885]

3 minutes ago, Chouffeke said:

Budget isn't fixed to  €300.

What's the real budget then?

 

What are your upgrade goals?

[Dedayog]

4 minutes ago, Chouffeke said:

Budget (including currency): €300

Country: Belgium

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Halo Infinite, Lost Ark, GW2, nothing to heavy

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

Momentarily I'm running a MSI GTX1070 i5 - 6600K, Gigabyte Z170-HD3 motherboard, 16gb RAM, CX650 Power Supply. I have no clue which component I should upgrade within my budget and need help. Budget isn't fixed to  €300.

If you're not playing anything too heavy, that is a perfect machine for it.

 

All SSD's I assume?

[Chouffeke]

My budget is max 400, but ideally around 300. I'm noticing my CPU running at 100% at times and I'm not knowledgable enough to know if just putting in a new CPU is the best idea.

My goal is mostly thinking about being able to run games in the future and maybe a bit smoother at the moment. As in: should I think about upgrading maybe the motherboard and CPU in the near future while I wait for GPU prices to become a bit more reasonable? Or is that just a stupid idea and wait a few years to get a complete new build? 

Any advice and opinions are welcome.

I've got a m.2 ssd (1tb) and a sata ssd (256gb) which I initially used when I built it. Also a 1tb hdd just for files.

 

 

[Chouffeke]

9 hours ago, RAS_3885 said:

What's the real budget then?

 

What are your upgrade goals?

 

 

9 hours ago, Dedayog said:

If you're not playing anything too heavy, that is a perfect machine for it.

 

All SSD's I assume?

I posted without replying to you guys directly. My answers are in the previous message. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Just overclock the cpu, might aswell not let the cpu and board have wasted potential

 

Max safe volt according to intel spec is 1.52v vcore though keep temps under 85c

 

Run as high of a vcore your cooler will allow and then work on cpu freq, though i suggest watching overclocking tutorials because im garbage at explaining

 

Edit: noooooo my 69 community answers thingy ;-;  guess ill have to wait till 169 ;-;

[Chouffeke]

4 hours ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Just overclock the cpu, might aswell not let the cpu and board have wasted potential

 

Max safe volt according to intel spec is 1.52v vcore though keep temps under 85c

 

Run as high of a vcore your cooler will allow and then work on cpu freq, though i suggest watching overclocking tutorials because im garbage at explaining

CPU is overclocked to 4,2 at 1.25v because some guide recommended it. The fact you said intel says max safe volt is 1,52 surprised me so I'll try to overclock to a higher frequency and stresstest myself later. Thanks for the advice!

[Somerandomtechyboi]

42 minutes ago, Chouffeke said:

CPU is overclocked to 4,2 at 1.25v because some guide recommended it. The fact you said intel says max safe volt is 1,52 surprised me so I'll try to overclock to a higher frequency and stresstest myself later. Thanks for the advice!

Lol 4.2 is childs play

 

Tbh absolute max "safe" volt according to my rule of thumb is ~1.6v as the highest volts ive seen on 14nm is 1.9v which is deathzone

 

Tbh your cooler may even be able to handle 1.6v considering that i5 is a 4c 4t cpu so shouldnt generate much heat anyways

[Chouffeke]

3 hours ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Lol 4.2 is childs play

 

Tbh absolute max "safe" volt according to my rule of thumb is ~1.6v as the highest volts ive seen on 14nm is 1.9v which is deathzone

 

Tbh your cooler may even be able to handle 1.6v considering that i5 is a 4c 4t cpu so shouldnt generate much heat anyways

It took me way too long to decypher what you actually said. Makes me realise I know nothing at all about computers. ^^'

I'll definitely look up more guides and try to OC quite a bit more then. 

Thanks again and I'll consider my question answered. Cheers!

[Somerandomtechyboi]

1 hour ago, Chouffeke said:

It took me way too long to decypher what you actually said. Makes me realise I know nothing at all about computers. ^^'

I'll definitely look up more guides and try to OC quite a bit more then. 

Thanks again and I'll consider my question answered. Cheers!

Also make sure to watch multiple guides and take the highest voltage reccomendations out of all of them cause most guides are for beginners so they use baby voltages that are not even close to the absolute max safe aka ruining potential performance that can be gained

 

you may also wanna add a +0.05v offset aswell to the reccomedation, if you wanna be risky then you could do +0.1v but that could easily land you in a rather unsafe voltage zone