Not performing the best in games?

[LudazTV]

It's been a while since I've played a game with decent graphics and upon installing some good looking games again I find that my PC isn't running the games as well as I remember. I remember even playing Watch Dogs I used to be able to have quite high settings and have no problems with FPS but now I just keep getting stutters and lag spikes even on lower settings which I feel shouldn't be happening. I feel like it could be my CPU because that is becoming pretty outdated which is annoying because to update so newer stuff I'd have to end up changing a lot of things which I don't have budget for right now. I'll leave my specs below to see what you think. Do you think if I changed to an i7 4790k I'd get much better performance? It's still an older model but it's something I could use and not have to change mobo and RAM to do.

CPU: i5 4690
GPU: GTX 1060 6GB
Mobo: Gigabyte H81M-S2H
RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
Power: Corsair CX600

 

[bmockeg]

4790k might get you 2 more FPS, not worth it

 

[hotaru251]

long term: check deals, sales, etc and buy parts one by one as its overall goign to be a huge benefit over an older system.

short term: maybe? You will get better performance (as the i7 is faster overall) but how much is up to guess (not likely anythign you'd hope for).

IMHO not really worth the 200+ dollars as cost you maybe 500-700 to get a modern build where you will get large increases and not have to worry again for awhile.

 

[TerryLaze]

1. make sure the CPU and GPU run at the clocks that they should run at.
2. make sure your drives have some free space on them and make sure to defrag them.
Keep in mind that watchdogs is one of those games that just run terrible for no reason.

 

[LudazTV]

long term: check deals, sales, etc and buy parts one by one as its overall goign to be a huge benefit over an older system.

short term: maybe? You will get better performance (as the i7 is faster overall) but how much is up to guess (not likely anythign you'd hope for).

IMHO not really worth the 200+ dollars as cost you maybe 500-700 to get a modern build where you will get large increases and not have to worry again for awhile.

Thanks, I might consider it but I'm not as invested in having good performance in games as I used to be, just wanted to play some stuff and not have stutters and lag on em.