Question What to upgrade next?

[Marcuscastle]

I am a casual gamer have recently been playing a lot of Forza horizon 4 and the experience is good but the picture does jutter from time to time at high settings . I am looking to make an upgrade (CPU or RAM?) to change this but I really don’t know where to start, as my GPU is fairly new.

Parts list so far:

• intel i5 4460 3.2Ghz Quad-Core
• cooler master liquidpro 280 64.21 CFM liquid CPU cooler
• MSI Z97 PC Mate ATX LGA 1150
• Corsair vengence pro 16GB (2x8gb) DDR3-1600
• Samsung 860 Evo 500gb SSD

-MSI Geforce GTX 1060 6GB
- 550w gold rated corsair PSU

Any recommendations would be great. I’m thinking CPU but unsure if i will need a new motherboard for this? A few of my parts are way overkill i know (such as cpu cooler)

Budget £200-£300 can go more if a massive difference and happy to sell old parts.

If you could also tel me how the new part will help i’ll appreciate this as well

 

[WildCard999]

Does your FPS stay fairly consistent?

If so you may not need to spend much. I had steady FPS on my games but was experiencing some jutter so I changed from a HDMI cable to Displayport which fixed it.

 

[Marcuscastle]

Does your FPS stay fairly consistent?

If so you may not need to spend much. I had steady FPS on my games but was experiencing some jutter so I changed from a HDMI cable to Displayport which fixed it.

Hi Wildcard

FPS is stable and i use DisplayPort - although not tested it on Forza

Was thinking the upgrade from i5 to the i7 of same generation - do you think this would help?

 

[WildCard999]

Hi Wildcard

FPS is stable and i use DisplayPort - although not tested it on Forza

Was thinking the upgrade from i5 to the i7 of same generation - do you think this would help?

Going from the i5 to a i7 may help but it is quite old so you'd be better off going with a newer AMD Ryzen or Intel (preferably Ryzen price to performance).

What refresh rate is your monitor?

Freesync?

Have you tried vsync? Is it better or worse with it on?