First post so - Hello Everyone!
Let me start by giving you my specs:
MOBO: ASUS P8H61-M LX2 R2.0
CPU: i5-2400 3.10GHz
16GB DDR3 666.5 MHz
GTX 1060 6GB
PSU Elementium E2 SI-450
Windows 7
I noticed that in some CPU intensive games (like MH:W) I'm experiencing stutters and sometimes freeze, thanks to some soft and a few helpful people on the steam forums I isolated the issue to my CPU being too weak (guess that's my fault for not doing enough research but here we are) so I was thinking of changing it to a stronger one.
I checked that since my MOBO has a 1155 LGA socket the best thing I can do within my price range would be an I-7 3770 (like this one https://allegro.pl/oferta/intel-i7-3770-3-9ghz-lga-1155-cooler-pasta-6750250129 - the site is in Polish but I think you can easily make it all out, if not please let me know and I'll find it somewhere else).
I have a few questions regarding that:
Thanks in advance for any tips.
Let me start by giving you my specs:
MOBO: ASUS P8H61-M LX2 R2.0
CPU: i5-2400 3.10GHz
16GB DDR3 666.5 MHz
GTX 1060 6GB
PSU Elementium E2 SI-450
Windows 7
I noticed that in some CPU intensive games (like MH:W) I'm experiencing stutters and sometimes freeze, thanks to some soft and a few helpful people on the steam forums I isolated the issue to my CPU being too weak (guess that's my fault for not doing enough research but here we are) so I was thinking of changing it to a stronger one.
I checked that since my MOBO has a 1155 LGA socket the best thing I can do within my price range would be an I-7 3770 (like this one https://allegro.pl/oferta/intel-i7-3770-3-9ghz-lga-1155-cooler-pasta-6750250129 - the site is in Polish but I think you can easily make it all out, if not please let me know and I'll find it somewhere else).
I have a few questions regarding that:
- Is that a good choice of CPU?
- Do I also have to exchange the PSU or is mine good enough?
- How "dangerous" is it to attempt the exchange myself?
Thanks in advance for any tips.