Cheaper option to upgrading my pc

aidfarrell70

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There are new games such as Black ops 4, cyperbunk etc that I want to be able to run better than I feel as though I will with the current rig I have.

My current system specs:
GTX 970
I5 4440 CPU
500W gold PSU
8gb DDR3 RAM
ACER DDR3 motherboard
1tb wd blue HDD
150gb kingston SSD

My PC is an acer predator 63-605 and all I have done is swap out the gtx from 640 to a 970 and upgraded the fan from a stock intel to a hyper 212 evo.

I tried out the black ops 4 blackout beta over the weekend and I found that I can run the game between 50-80 fps. It feels decent sometimes but most of the time it is pretty low performance.
If I wanted to upgrade my cpu it would mean that I would have to upgrade motherboard and RAM otherwise getting a ddr3 intel cpu wouldn't make much difference, however this option seems very expensive.

Are there other ways I can upgrade my PC that's less expensive but will improve my gaming performance?
 
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I'd sell your current pc and buy a new one.

I'd get this:

i5 8400, 8500 or 8600. (Cheaper than the i7, obviously and way better than your current cpu. )
A motherboard with a b360 chipset: MSI B360 Gaming Pro Carbon, for example.
8 or 16GB DDR4 RAM.
A gtx 1060ti or 1070, maybe even 1070ti if you have the money.
PSU with at least 550w.
A decent cpu cooler and also an ssd.

New pc, future proof and you won't have any problems running the latest games on medium-high settings at 1080p.

ikaz

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Well really the only thing you can try is upgrading the GPU, though it may not be much of an improvement depending on resolution your playing and of course how much the game that your playing uses CPU. As you stated no real point upgrading to i7 they seem to cost north of $200+ and at that price better to move to i8/i9 platform. At least with a new GPU if you decide to build a new PC you can move it over.
 
I'd say if your mobo supports it I think a CPU upgrade could be worth the $50 or so. The i7-4770 gives you 66% perf increase at the same 84W TDP. I just watched an ebay listing end for it and the price was $125.50. You'd have to watch some listings for your i5-4440 to get an idea how much you could sell it for, but it looks like you could fetch ~$90 for it. Depending on the price differential, $50 to upgrade it seems doable if you're willing to buy a used CPU. Now, it's cheap, but is the CPU your bottleneck? You could play the same upgrade game with the graphics card with a little research, but I'd say search Tom's for a guide on finding your bottleneck first.

Update: looks like your system supports i7-4770 (I think it's G3-605, not 63-605)
http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Acer-Predator-G3-605/95
 

aidfarrell70

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Yes sorry I meant G3-605 aha! And thanks for the answer I will look at tom's guide. What do you mean buy "playing the same upgrade game?"
 

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I had an older thread and somone suggested if I wanted to upgrade my pc to a ddr4 rig and also upgrade my cpu then I should use these specs:

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£213.66 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z370XP SLI (rev. 1.0) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£85.74 @ Amazon UK)

Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£79.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)

Are there any cheaper prices of motherboards and ram, because £80 seems a lot for 8gb of ram to me, idk.
 

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I'd sell your current pc and buy a new one.

I'd get this:

i5 8400, 8500 or 8600. (Cheaper than the i7, obviously and way better than your current cpu. )
A motherboard with a b360 chipset: MSI B360 Gaming Pro Carbon, for example.
8 or 16GB DDR4 RAM.
A gtx 1060ti or 1070, maybe even 1070ti if you have the money.
PSU with at least 550w.
A decent cpu cooler and also an ssd.

New pc, future proof and you won't have any problems running the latest games on medium-high settings at 1080p.
 
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