Hi people.
My step-son has a Lenovo Legion Y520 Tower that’s 1.5yrs old, specs as follows:
-i3-7100
-8GB DDR4-2400
-Nvidia 1050Ti
-500GB SanDisk SSD
-Intel B250 chipset
His birthday is a month away, he’s fairly mad on Fortnite and CS:GO, and rather than rip and replace and spend too much at once I want to phase his upgrades over time - I initially thought about alleviating his current bottleneck with an i7-8700 (or 8700k), which would mean he’d get the extra CPU grunt ahead of upgrading his mobo, PSU and GPU towards the end of the year. I would be prepared to spend £3-400 on the initial ‘phase 1’ upgrade.
The flaw with that is the current B250 chipset, which won’t take an 8th gen intel CPU, and I don’t see the value of buying a similarly priced i7-7700. A new mobo would be the answer, but the Lenovo Tower is tiny and I don’t think it’ll take the majority of mainstream 1151 mobos.
Is a rip and replace the only answer? If that’s the case, should I be considering AMD?
Thanks in advance.
Dan
My step-son has a Lenovo Legion Y520 Tower that’s 1.5yrs old, specs as follows:
-i3-7100
-8GB DDR4-2400
-Nvidia 1050Ti
-500GB SanDisk SSD
-Intel B250 chipset
His birthday is a month away, he’s fairly mad on Fortnite and CS:GO, and rather than rip and replace and spend too much at once I want to phase his upgrades over time - I initially thought about alleviating his current bottleneck with an i7-8700 (or 8700k), which would mean he’d get the extra CPU grunt ahead of upgrading his mobo, PSU and GPU towards the end of the year. I would be prepared to spend £3-400 on the initial ‘phase 1’ upgrade.
The flaw with that is the current B250 chipset, which won’t take an 8th gen intel CPU, and I don’t see the value of buying a similarly priced i7-7700. A new mobo would be the answer, but the Lenovo Tower is tiny and I don’t think it’ll take the majority of mainstream 1151 mobos.
Is a rip and replace the only answer? If that’s the case, should I be considering AMD?
Thanks in advance.
Dan