Help I have E8400

Windleborn · June 18, 2016

Hey I have a E8400 with GA-G33M-DS2R motherboard 4 GB ddr2 ram and 430 watt psu and I'm looking at swapping my Galaxy GTX 260 and putting a MSI R7 370 Gaming 4GB would that be good idea or should I first invest into a new cpu and everything before putting the msi R7 in as I play ARK survival evolved and bear lyrics able to play. Please help

Thanks

SageOfSpice · June 18, 2016

31 minutes ago, Windleborn said:

Hey I have a E8400 with GA-G33M-DS2R motherboard 4 GB ddr2 ram and 430 watt psu and I'm looking at swapping my Galaxy GTX 260 and putting a MSI R7 370 Gaming 4GB would that be good idea or should I first invest into a new cpu and everything before putting the msi R7 in as I play ARK survival evolved and bear lyrics able to play. Please help

Thanks

Download MSI afterburner, setup on screen statistics to show you your CPU and GPU utilization, and make the call from there. Investing in a better GPU will definitely help, but whether or not it helps with ARK will depend on what's currently bottle necking you.

Based on what I can find though, your CPU should be sufficient to run ARK, so upgrading your GPU would definitely provide a large benefit.

Windleborn · June 18, 2016

12 minutes ago, SageOfSpice said:

Download MSI afterburner, setup on screen statistics to show you your CPU and GPU utilization, and make the call from there. Investing in a better GPU will definitely help, but whether or not it helps with ARK will depend on what's currently bottle necking you.

Based on what I can find though, your CPU should be sufficient to run ARK, so upgrading your GPU would definitely provide a large benefit.

Cool thankyou I did and my cpu is at 80% when doing test but I think my GPU is crashing as I can not do the stres test on it

Herman Mcpootis · June 18, 2016

i'd recommend seeing if there are any core 2 quads/quad core xeons used for cheap, an e8400 isn't enough for gaming. intensely low ipc and no extra cores to make up for it. for the gpu, maybe wait for the Rx 460, it should be at around the sane price and performs similar to the gtx 960/r9 380 while eating much less power.