So some time ago (3 years) I posted here when I built my first rig, that thread, along with a part list, can be found here. Mostly everything is the same on it, so I wouldn't be surprised if it needed to be upgraded. My question is what should be upgraded first?
For a bit more detail, this pc has slowed down drastically in the past year or so. To the point where i cant stream anymore or play even lighter gfx games like Fortnite without skipping and freezing. I plan on getting back into streaming and need this to be able to run at least a majority games out right now smoothly while utilizing an HD60 Pro I plan on installing soon swell to stream again. Any ideas/solutions as to how I can go about upgrading/speeding up the system?
My first thought was that its the graphics card, but its slow even opening up browsers and i cant imagine the gpu would have issues running simple games like even fortnite. My next thought is that it might be the ram but i'm not sure replacing them would do the trick. You all know alot more about this than me so please, let me know what you think.
Parts list for those of you who don't want to click the link:
CPU- Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core
Motherboard- ASRock Z97 Extreme3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Memory- G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage- Western Digital 3TB HDD
GPU- XFX Radeon R9 270X 2GB Double Dissipation Video Card
For a bit more detail, this pc has slowed down drastically in the past year or so. To the point where i cant stream anymore or play even lighter gfx games like Fortnite without skipping and freezing. I plan on getting back into streaming and need this to be able to run at least a majority games out right now smoothly while utilizing an HD60 Pro I plan on installing soon swell to stream again. Any ideas/solutions as to how I can go about upgrading/speeding up the system?
My first thought was that its the graphics card, but its slow even opening up browsers and i cant imagine the gpu would have issues running simple games like even fortnite. My next thought is that it might be the ram but i'm not sure replacing them would do the trick. You all know alot more about this than me so please, let me know what you think.
Parts list for those of you who don't want to click the link:
CPU- Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core
Motherboard- ASRock Z97 Extreme3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Memory- G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage- Western Digital 3TB HDD
GPU- XFX Radeon R9 270X 2GB Double Dissipation Video Card