What would you upgrade first ?

MadMan-JaMeS · 26 Oct 2021 at 09:23

Hello,

My son has my old out dated PC, and i'm thinking of slowly upgrading it for him

What would be best to upgrade first ?

His system is the following:

Intel Core i5-6400 2.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor
Gigabyte H110M-S2H Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard
Powercolor Radeon R9 380 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
16GB DDR Ram - Can't remember exactly what make.
Crucial BX200 240GB SSD SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive - OS Only

Looking to do it as cheap as possible.

Thanks

pastymuncher · 26 Oct 2021 at 09:27

What is the pc used for and at what res? Sadly there's no such thing as cheap these days with the price of new and used gpu's.

mickyflinn · 26 Oct 2021 at 09:28

What games does he play and resoloution hes gaming at , Is he streaming ?

Is it struggling in any area ?

MadMan-JaMeS · 26 Oct 2021 at 09:42

I just brought him a 24" 24GN600-B 1920X1080 IPS 144Hz Monitor

He plays a lot to be honest Fortnite, Tried to play CoD Warzone but it was dropping frames a lot.

Some racing games, it is mainly gaming constantly

alec · 26 Oct 2021 at 10:03

CPU wise H110 can go up to i7-7700K, which is still not a bad CPU.
So motherboard upgrade may be avoided for now. 16GB RAM should be enough as well.

But GPU will be holding it back in any modern game.
But nothing in GPU world is cheap nowadays.

mickyflinn · 26 Oct 2021 at 10:28

MadMan-JaMeS said:
I just brought him a 24" 24GN600-B 1920X1080 IPS 144Hz Monitor

He plays a lot to be honest Fortnite, Tried to play CoD Warzone but it was dropping frames a lot.

Some racing games, it is mainly gaming constantly

Gpu upgrade needed you can pick up a gtx 1070 for £200 in the members market that would double performance of the 380.

Getting the games on a ssd wont improve fps but will drastically increase loading times.

JollyJamma · 26 Oct 2021 at 10:42

MadMan-JaMeS said:
Hello,

My son has my old out dated PC, and i'm thinking of slowly upgrading it for him

What would be best to upgrade first ?

His system is the following:

Intel Core i5-6400 2.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor
Gigabyte H110M-S2H Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard
Powercolor Radeon R9 380 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
16GB DDR Ram - Can't remember exactly what make.
Crucial BX200 240GB SSD SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive - OS Only

Looking to do it as cheap as possible.

Thanks

I’d probably say that it’s the CPU and GPU but it’s odd that Fortnight is dropping frames.

the game will run on a potato. You could get a 7700K and an AMD 580 8gig as a nice budget upgrade.

just make sure that you actually have 16gigs of ram because that SSD is a DRAM less drive and will slow the whole system down if the system is caching instructions to the SSD due to a lack of ram.

decto · 26 Oct 2021 at 11:55

MadMan-JaMeS said:
Hello,

My son has my old out dated PC, and i'm thinking of slowly upgrading it for him

What would be best to upgrade first ?

Thanks

At this point, XBox series S + gamepass on whatever Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals we get.
Use the PC for older titles, steam back catalogue.

If PC only

7700 as good as 7700K and less expensive, no over clocking on H110 anyway.
Personally, I think CPU upgrade is dead money on that platform.

I would look for a 10400F and motherboad ~£250 and then sell the existing parts as a bundle.
Then same with GPU, buy what comes up used / new and sell on the old one.

MadMan-JaMeS · 26 Oct 2021 at 11:57

JollyJamma said:
I’d probably say that it’s the CPU and GPU but it’s odd that Fortnight is dropping frames.

the game will run on a potato. You could get a 7700K and an AMD 580 8gig as a nice budget upgrade.

just make sure that you actually have 16gigs of ram because that SSD is a DRAM less drive and will slow the whole system down if the system is caching instructions to the SSD due to a lack of ram.

Sorry only Warzone drops frames.

Fortnite runs fine

mickyflinn · 26 Oct 2021 at 12:16

MadMan-JaMeS said:
Sorry only Warzone drops frames.

Fortnite runs fine

Download msi afterburner and check cpu and gpu usage especially where drops occur.

JollyJamma · 26 Oct 2021 at 17:15

MadMan-JaMeS said:
Sorry only Warzone drops frames.

Fortnite runs fine

Ah, yes that makes sense. The requirements for Warzone are far higher.

a console would be the best option for gaming these days as GPU pricing is mad.

jigger · 27 Oct 2021 at 13:26

I would upgrade the CPU and motherboard and carry the RAM, drivers and memory over.

MadMan-JaMeS · 30 Nov 2022 at 10:43

Thread revival.

He did have a slight upgrade not long ago.

The system is now
H310 Chipset Motherboard
I5 - 9400F @ 2.9Ghz
16GB Ram
GTX 1660TI

I have seen a few RTX 2060 Supers going cheap online.

Was thinking that would be a decent upgrade won't it ?

mickyflinn · 30 Nov 2022 at 11:01

MadMan-JaMeS said:
Thread revival.

He did have a slight upgrade not long ago.

The system is now
H310 Chipset Motherboard
I5 - 9400F @ 2.9Ghz
16GB Ram
GTX 1660TI

I have seen a few RTX 2060 Supers going cheap online.

Was thinking that would be a decent upgrade won't it ?

Not worth it its only about 17% performance boost , what's your budget ?

6600xt is about 40% faster than the 1660 ti .

dave28 · 30 Nov 2022 at 11:18

My aim would be to get it to an i5-8600K / 2060 Super system or something like that.

Dont bother with 7th Gen

MadMan-JaMeS · 30 Nov 2022 at 11:25

dave28 said:
My aim would be to get it to an i5-8600K / 2060 Super system or something like that.

Dont bother with 7th Gen

Doesn't seem like a massive upgrade with that CPU though.

MadMan-JaMeS · 30 Nov 2022 at 11:26

mickyflinn said:
Not worth it its only about 17% performance boost , what's your budget ?

6600xt is about 40% faster than the 1660 ti .

Not really sure what the budget is really.

I'm thinking about £200 roughly. Ideally want him to be able to play CoD

dave28 · 30 Nov 2022 at 11:32

MadMan-JaMeS said:
Doesn't seem like a massive upgrade with that CPU though.

sorry i thought you said cheap as possible, a 5600X then and 2080 Super

MadMan-JaMeS · 30 Nov 2022 at 11:38

When i have been comparing the old CPU against some others it the I5 9400f seems to hold up pretty well.

is the 9400f a decent CPU ?

mickyflinn · 30 Nov 2022 at 11:44

MadMan-JaMeS said:
Not really sure what the budget is really.

I'm thinking about £200 roughly. Ideally want him to be able to play CoD

Should be able to play at 1080p with what he has , £200 ain't gonna cut it unless you go used.

An rx 6700 is £330 and a big upgrade while selling his 1660ti would ease the blow, below is some benchmarks for mw2 .

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