I used to constantly catch my son playing Fortnite on my PC which I strictly forbid. When I asked him why he won't play on the PC I build for him he told me there is too much lag in the graphics when playing Fortnite (YouTube videos play just fine).
The PC I built for him in 2013 has an LGA1155 Dual Core i3-2105 3.1 GHz Sandy Bridge processor. In an attempt to improve the performance of his PC I decided to add a video card a few months ago. I purchased a highly rated but reasonably priced EVGA GTX1050 TiSC 4GB DDR5 gaming card. This provided some notable improvement but it was still not enough to keep him off of my PC.
This week I decided to take the next step and order a new CPU (still an LGA 1155 chipset so I wouldn't have to replace the perfectly fine MoBo). I ordered a Quad Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz that should arrive next week.
My question is....upon swapping the CPUs should I expect to see a dramatic performance improvement? Is going from a Dual Core i3 to a Quad Core i7 the right approach? Or does this sound like a network lag issue his PC is experiencing? My PC is directly wired to the Gigabit switch that connects to my router. His PC is in the basement and is an additional Gigabit switch away from the router.
By the way, for what it's worth my PC (the one I forbid him to play on) is one year newer (built in 2014) and has an LGA 1150 Quad Core i7-4770 Haswell Bridge 3.4 GHz CPU and runs with an Asus GTX 660 DDR3 2400 graphics card.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
One additional question....when swapping out CPUs do I need to reinstall the OS? I've never done just a CPU swap-out. I've swapped out memory modules, HDDs, SDDs, video cards and other peripherals but never a CPU.
The PC I built for him in 2013 has an LGA1155 Dual Core i3-2105 3.1 GHz Sandy Bridge processor. In an attempt to improve the performance of his PC I decided to add a video card a few months ago. I purchased a highly rated but reasonably priced EVGA GTX1050 TiSC 4GB DDR5 gaming card. This provided some notable improvement but it was still not enough to keep him off of my PC.
This week I decided to take the next step and order a new CPU (still an LGA 1155 chipset so I wouldn't have to replace the perfectly fine MoBo). I ordered a Quad Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz that should arrive next week.
My question is....upon swapping the CPUs should I expect to see a dramatic performance improvement? Is going from a Dual Core i3 to a Quad Core i7 the right approach? Or does this sound like a network lag issue his PC is experiencing? My PC is directly wired to the Gigabit switch that connects to my router. His PC is in the basement and is an additional Gigabit switch away from the router.
By the way, for what it's worth my PC (the one I forbid him to play on) is one year newer (built in 2014) and has an LGA 1150 Quad Core i7-4770 Haswell Bridge 3.4 GHz CPU and runs with an Asus GTX 660 DDR3 2400 graphics card.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
One additional question....when swapping out CPUs do I need to reinstall the OS? I've never done just a CPU swap-out. I've swapped out memory modules, HDDs, SDDs, video cards and other peripherals but never a CPU.
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