So I'm going to try and keep this short, and hope you guys can help me.
About 4-5 years ago, I bought a prebuilt PC which was described as "gaming", that is now proving to be a slow, laggy b!tch. So I'm looking to upgrade it without spending a lot.
I'm not a huge gamer, all I want the computer to do is to be quick in opening files and applications, I also want to be able to play Minecraft at max settings, no shaders or mods, just vanilla survival (Nether update looks interesting). and to play this at a cosntant 60-80fps. My monitor has a 60hz refresh rate.
when I open MC currently, It's really laggy with medium settings, which leads me to believe its the cpu thats the problem. the graphics card isn't the best, but I would asssume its being bottlenecked by the CPU.
I'm thinking an SSD and a new CPU (maybe a Ryzen CPU) would fix my problems, but I'd like your opinions too.
I haven't been up to date with the latest computers and tech news for the past few years and nor am I too experienced (I'm 18) with this kind of stuff. so please explain accordingly.
Here are my specs, looking forward to your replies.
CPU: FX 4300 Quad Core 3800Mhz
Windows 10 Home 64 version
Graphics card: NVidia Geforce GTX 960
2 TB HDD , no SSD
8GB RAM, DDR3
Motherboard: 760GM-P23 FX
About 4-5 years ago, I bought a prebuilt PC which was described as "gaming", that is now proving to be a slow, laggy b!tch. So I'm looking to upgrade it without spending a lot.
I'm not a huge gamer, all I want the computer to do is to be quick in opening files and applications, I also want to be able to play Minecraft at max settings, no shaders or mods, just vanilla survival (Nether update looks interesting). and to play this at a cosntant 60-80fps. My monitor has a 60hz refresh rate.
when I open MC currently, It's really laggy with medium settings, which leads me to believe its the cpu thats the problem. the graphics card isn't the best, but I would asssume its being bottlenecked by the CPU.
I'm thinking an SSD and a new CPU (maybe a Ryzen CPU) would fix my problems, but I'd like your opinions too.
I haven't been up to date with the latest computers and tech news for the past few years and nor am I too experienced (I'm 18) with this kind of stuff. so please explain accordingly.
Here are my specs, looking forward to your replies.
CPU: FX 4300 Quad Core 3800Mhz
Windows 10 Home 64 version
Graphics card: NVidia Geforce GTX 960
2 TB HDD , no SSD
8GB RAM, DDR3
Motherboard: 760GM-P23 FX