Just saying hello and I have a rig question

[mackjohnsonforty]

so i have just recently got my first gaming pc from a good friend who just upgraded to a whole new rig. I currently have a windows pro 10, with intel I5 processor, and a 500W PSU and a ASrock 87extreme Mother board. and 8 gb of ram with a gtx 660. So today I am adding a gtx 1060 3gb and 8 more gb of ram. my question is this. I should see a big diferrence right in speed and performance? also my monitor is 144hrtz @ 1ms...my games so far are BF5, Dark Souls, POE, lots off open world and fast paced games. As this is my first rig I am very excited about to be a part of this world now. Thanks

 

[Supahos]

Bf5 you might not see a major gain as it's pretty rough on older i5s the rest you should either be able to be lot more fps or run absolute max settings

 

[mackjohnsonforty]

Bf5 you might not see a major gain as it's pretty rough on older i5s the rest you should either be able to be lot more fps or run absolute max settings

So let me ask you then since again I am new to this, what processor should I get? or can I get?

 

[Supahos]

I'm assuming you have a 4670k currently?

 

[mackjohnsonforty]

I'm assuming you have a 4670k currently?

I5-4570

 

[Supahos]

You should be able to cheat a bit and oc your processor even though it's locked it should be able to go to 3.8-4.0

See if that helps some after your GPU upgrade.


A 4770k is a good bit cheaper than a 4790k and basically the same performance if you wanted to give it a bit of a boost (buy either second hand)

 

[mackjohnsonforty]

You should be able to cheat a bit and oc your processor even though it's locked it should be able to go to 3.8-4.0

See if that helps some after your GPU upgrade.


A 4770k is a good bit cheaper than a 4790k and basically the same performance if you wanted to give it a bit of a boost (buy either second hand)

what does overclock mean and how is that done? thank you for all the help, and so I can buy that second hand? is installment easy?

 

[Supahos]

It's not too bad, there are literally 100 videos on YouTube of how to do it. Any Intel processor since... Probably 2005 would be the same process


You'd want a better cpu cooler would probably be required with the new cpu (something like a cyroig h7 or h5

Overclocking also isn't too hard Im guessing you could go into bios advanced mode and just change the multiplier from 36 (or 32 I don't remember if it lists boost or base clock) to 38 or 40

Overclocking is running the processor (in this case) faster than it originally runs. Basically I'll run 200-400 mhz faster than the spec sheet lists.

 

[mackjohnsonforty]

It's not too bad, there are literally 100 videos on YouTube of how to do it. Any Intel processor since... Probably 2005 would be the same process


You'd want a better cpu cooler would probably be required with the new cpu (something like a cyroig h7 or h5

Overclocking also isn't too hard Im guessing you could go into bios advanced mode and just change the multiplier from 36 (or 32 I don't remember if it lists boost or base clock) to 38 or 40

Overclocking is running the processor (in this case) faster than it originally runs. Basically I'll run 200-400 mhz faster than the spec sheet lists.

I just wanted to give you an update. So I dropped my new Forza Ram so now I have a total of 16 gb its maxed out for that motherboard. and then I placed in the GTX 1060. and o my gosh it was too me like a whole new set up. plus my new mouse and keyboard came the same day. it's a havic type...and my rig is silent and sounds great.

I think I am good to go from this point. It was such a difference with 144hrtz picture display. and finally no slide show for 3 hours straight. Thanks again for your help. This is a great forum for sure.