[SOLVED] Need opinons with upgrade

[barnett1980]

Hi everyone,

Wanted to ask you fine people for some advice. I have the following:

i5 6500
h110ma mobo
16 gig ram
GTX 1070
1440p monitor @ 60hz

Now im looking for an upgrade and have a budget of around £300. Would a cpu upgrade or gpu upgrade be better if im trying to acheive 60fps on ultra on most games? I know some games are better coded then others so will put down some settings, but my pc really seems to be struggling at the moment especially with FPS games.

Im looking at either upgrading the 1070 to a radeon 5700 or ditching intel and getting AMD Ryzen 5 3600. In everyones opinions what would be the better more beneficial upgrade? Ive only got that budget to start off with as moving home soon.

Thanks for everyones help

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

That's mostly to do with your CPU being limited to 4c/4t and just average base/boost clocks.

Ideally you need a CPU/Mobo. You could use your current ram, and get this:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor (£172.38 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard (£99.54 @ More Computers)
Total: £271.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-10-28 19:09 GMT+0000

This would fit well with your current GPU and will push a few more FPS at 1440p for a good smooth experience.

Although, Ryzen loves fast ram, which can give a real boost in performance for for the 3600. Something like this to compliment your new CPU/Mobo would really give an extra 10-20% boost in FPS too:

PCPartPicker Part List

Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£66.78 @ Aria PC)
Total: £66.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-10-28 19:12 GMT+0000

If you could stretch to that, you would be good to go.

 

[Darkbreeze]

This, or something like it, is where I'd start. Right now you are more CPU limited than GPU.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor (£191.49 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard (£105.46 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £296.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-10-28 19:11 GMT+0000

 

[barnett1980]

Thanks for all the replys, ive been reading about the ryzen needing high ram speed, would my current ram (corsair 2x8gb at 2400mhz), cause any problems??

 

[JonCondiff]

I'll Just say the GPU is perfectly fine as is don't have much time right now to look into anything else

 

[logainofhades]

Even at 2400 speed, you will be doing better, than you are currently, in newer titles. You can also do some tweaking, to get you by, for now.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Yes, faster RAM would definitely be better, but as Logain said it would still be better, much faster, than what you have now. Not only would you have two additional cores and six additional threads, but you'd have much faster single core performance so EACH of those additional cores and threads would be faster than your current four cores are.

While this isn't an exactly scientific comparison, in real world terms, it's a fairly decent gauge of comparative performance. It's a 44% increase in single core performance, and a 174% in multithreaded performance. And that average is likely based on a variety of different memory speeds from 2133mhz up to 3600mhz.