[SOLVED] System upgrade recommendation

[hirajhil]

I have the following configuration mainly:

CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1245 V3
RAM: DDR3 32 GB (2 X 16)
Motherboard: MSI Krait Edition
GPU: RTX 2080 Ti

I mainly play games on two monitors interchangeably. Sometimes with a 4K with 60 Hz. This one does have HDR.
Another one is a 32-inch 1440p monitor with 60 Hz framerate.

So far I have not faced any problem playing recent games. To name a few I played AC Odyssey, Hitman 2, NFS Heat, Red Dead Redemption 2. Should I upgrade my CPU and MB/RAM now? Or it should be okay for the next 2-3 years? I personally do not find any problem running games in the highest possible settings.

Thank you.

 

[Barty1884]

The E3 1245v3 is roughly the same as an i7-4770/4770K.
As you turn up the resolution, the CPU matters less - in a lot of cases, even a Quad-Core i5 would net you pretty good results at 4K with a 2080TI..... The difference will be in the 1% and 0.1% lows (and a little off the top).

As long as the system is doing what you want it to, then there's no need to upgrade now.

Nobody can say for sure what the future holds, but I'd expect by the time 2-3 years pass, the Xeon will be struggling a bit with newer releases.

For now, keep using it. As/when games come up where you can't hit the framerates you want, look to upgrade at that point.

 

[hirajhil]

The E3 1245v3 is roughly the same as an i7-4770/4770K.
As you turn up the resolution, the CPU matters less - in a lot of cases, even a Quad-Core i5 would net you pretty good results at 4K with a 2080TI..... The difference will be in the 1% and 0.1% lows (and a little off the top).

As long as the system is doing what you want it to, then there's no need to upgrade now.

Nobody can say for sure what the future holds, but I'd expect by the time 2-3 years pass, the Xeon will be struggling a bit with newer releases.

For now, keep using it. As/when games come up where you can't hit the framerates you want, look to upgrade at that point.

Thank you. Yes, I am thinking the same. The CPU is almost 6 years old but still running fine. And since my upgrade to nvme memory I honestly do not find any significant difference in day to day runs compared to a new build. I was just concerned about the CPU bottleneck but so far there was none.

 

[Barty1884]

Thank you. Yes, I am thinking the same. The CPU is almost 6 years old but still running fine. And since my upgrade to nvme memory I honestly do not find any significant difference in day to day runs compared to a new build. I was just concerned about the CPU bottleneck but so far there was none.

Strictly speaking, the CPU launched a little over 7 years ago.... but even so, 4c/8t of that era, at competitive clock speeds are still good performers. As long as it's doing the job for you, then I wouldn't worry about it.

I'm assuming you have a Z97 KRAIT board? If you really wanted to pick up an NVME SSD, Z97 supports NVME boot - you'd just need a PCIe adapter (and an available/accessible slot, of course). A handful of Z87/Z97 boards had onboard M.2 PCIe slots, at Gen3 x2 / Gen2 x4. With an adapter, Gen3 x4 speeds are available.
In the 'real world' though, do you perform workloads that'll benefit from the faster speeds of NVMe? If you're just gaming & some day to day productivity, you'd be hard pressed to notice a difference between even a top end NVMe and a middle of the road SATA3 SSD outside of benchmarks.