Hello,
I just discovered this forum and am new to gaming PCs in general. Thank you in advance for any help!
Background - for the past couple months my 10 year old son has been using a gaming PC rather than Xbox to play Minecraft. He likes to play PvP games on servers with add-on texture packs. He's really fast with his mouse clicking "jitter clicking" but the system can't always keep up and will not place a block when he is bridging, resulting in falling into the void. He has figured out how to run an FPS tracker and it will usually be in the 100-200 range, but will occasionally drop into the 20s, which is when he falls.
The PC came with a i7 4770k processor, which, from my research is not the bottleneck. It appears the GTX 745 graphics card is. I've included a link to HP's site with specs for my system if that helps. Mine has the 32 gb RAM option and a 3 TB HDD.
I've purchased an MSI GTX 1650 GPU to upgrade performance. I also bought an upgraded PSU with a Corsair CX 650 watt 80+ bronze rated unit.
Best estimate, I know no guarantees, will this help performance and is it doable without changing other components? Trying not to spend too much as we are making a build list for a from-scratch gaming PC that we will start buying components for once the rtx 3080 is available (at MSRP). Thinking this upgrade will be good practice for us.
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04451476
Thanks again!
I just discovered this forum and am new to gaming PCs in general. Thank you in advance for any help!
Background - for the past couple months my 10 year old son has been using a gaming PC rather than Xbox to play Minecraft. He likes to play PvP games on servers with add-on texture packs. He's really fast with his mouse clicking "jitter clicking" but the system can't always keep up and will not place a block when he is bridging, resulting in falling into the void. He has figured out how to run an FPS tracker and it will usually be in the 100-200 range, but will occasionally drop into the 20s, which is when he falls.
The PC came with a i7 4770k processor, which, from my research is not the bottleneck. It appears the GTX 745 graphics card is. I've included a link to HP's site with specs for my system if that helps. Mine has the 32 gb RAM option and a 3 TB HDD.
I've purchased an MSI GTX 1650 GPU to upgrade performance. I also bought an upgraded PSU with a Corsair CX 650 watt 80+ bronze rated unit.
Best estimate, I know no guarantees, will this help performance and is it doable without changing other components? Trying not to spend too much as we are making a build list for a from-scratch gaming PC that we will start buying components for once the rtx 3080 is available (at MSRP). Thinking this upgrade will be good practice for us.
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04451476
Thanks again!
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