I got a dad's friend to build my PC back in 2016, since I knew nothing about PCs back then, I got it as a Christmas present. Now in 2019 I see a lot of mistakes he did. For example, I have an ATX motherboard B150 from Gigabyte with 4 RAM slots, but it uses only one slot with an 8GB 2133MHz stick so I lose about 15% of my maximum performance. I also have an i5 6400 which bottlenecks my GTX 1060 in all new games, I used MSI Afterburner and found out that while my GPU Usage is at 75-85%, my CPU Usage is at a full 100. This PC doesn't use more than 350W, but I got a 700W Deepcool PSU, so I can upgrade. Now what I'm asking you guys is to tell me what to do. I have 400$ reserved for my upgrade and would like 16GB of RAM, but don't know if I should buy new modules or upgrade what I have and I have seen these Intel Core QKYN CPUs that cost about 190$ and have 4 cores/8 threads and have similar specs to an i7 7700. Of course I could just lower the Video Settings, but I preordered Cyberpunk 2077 and fear that I wouldn't be able to play it even on lowest.
EDIT: FULL SPECS:
CPU: Intel Core i5 6400 4c4t 2.9GHz Base-3.2GHz Turbo Boost, but somehow it's always at 3.1 and Turbo goes all the way to 3.3
Motherboard: Gigabyte B150-HD3
RAM: Kingston ValueRam 1x8GB 2133MHz, don't know the timings
GPU: ZOTAC GTX 1060 AMP EDITION
SSD: ZOTAC 120GB, don't know the exact model
HDD: Toshiba P300 1TB 64MB Cache 720RPM
PSU: Deepcool DA700
CPU COOLER: Deepcool HTPC-200
CASE: Zalman R1 w/4 fans
OS: Windows 10
And last thing, yes the QKYN is an ES CPU, but I don't know why it should be avoided. Here's link: https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesal...efault&spellChecked=y&page=1&switch_new_app=y
EDIT: FULL SPECS:
CPU: Intel Core i5 6400 4c4t 2.9GHz Base-3.2GHz Turbo Boost, but somehow it's always at 3.1 and Turbo goes all the way to 3.3
Motherboard: Gigabyte B150-HD3
RAM: Kingston ValueRam 1x8GB 2133MHz, don't know the timings
GPU: ZOTAC GTX 1060 AMP EDITION
SSD: ZOTAC 120GB, don't know the exact model
HDD: Toshiba P300 1TB 64MB Cache 720RPM
PSU: Deepcool DA700
CPU COOLER: Deepcool HTPC-200
CASE: Zalman R1 w/4 fans
OS: Windows 10
And last thing, yes the QKYN is an ES CPU, but I don't know why it should be avoided. Here's link: https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesal...efault&spellChecked=y&page=1&switch_new_app=y
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