Hello everyone.
My girlfriend and I built a HTPC roughly about 4 years ago, and we were under a budget so we got what we could afford at the time. And we are now debating if we should upgrade or build a new system. This system will go in our spare bedroom as an entertainment source. Ok so here is my current specs
Motherboard : Asus P7H55-M PRO
CPU: i3 Core LGA 1156 Clarkdale
Memory : 4g DDR3 Kingston
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 5700
So far the blu-ray playback is good and I played some games via emulators with some stutter, I tried to play high end games and there is a lag on it so I just don't bother. But some programs cause some minor to major lag and we have some spare money to put into our system so I guess basically is should I stick with what I have or should upgrade or should I buy a newer system. I would like to start playing some games on my system, Call of duty, tomb raider, AC, etc.
If I was to buy a new system can you give me your professional opinions about 4k and if I even need it for our HTPC or games for that matter, or is it not even a big deal? Should I stay with Intel or should I lean towards AMD. And just a note we do use this computer pretty heavily. My girlfriend and I don't even notice sometimes that we have this computer on pretty much on 24/7 for like 5 days a week.
Thank you.
My girlfriend and I built a HTPC roughly about 4 years ago, and we were under a budget so we got what we could afford at the time. And we are now debating if we should upgrade or build a new system. This system will go in our spare bedroom as an entertainment source. Ok so here is my current specs
Motherboard : Asus P7H55-M PRO
CPU: i3 Core LGA 1156 Clarkdale
Memory : 4g DDR3 Kingston
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 5700
So far the blu-ray playback is good and I played some games via emulators with some stutter, I tried to play high end games and there is a lag on it so I just don't bother. But some programs cause some minor to major lag and we have some spare money to put into our system so I guess basically is should I stick with what I have or should upgrade or should I buy a newer system. I would like to start playing some games on my system, Call of duty, tomb raider, AC, etc.
If I was to buy a new system can you give me your professional opinions about 4k and if I even need it for our HTPC or games for that matter, or is it not even a big deal? Should I stay with Intel or should I lean towards AMD. And just a note we do use this computer pretty heavily. My girlfriend and I don't even notice sometimes that we have this computer on pretty much on 24/7 for like 5 days a week.
Thank you.