upgrade advice for old pc

Hello, I upgraded my GPU a couple of years ago but only recently started playing more demanding games and have been underwhelmed with its performance so thought this could be caused by a bottle neck from the CPU? Should i be looking to upgrade the CPU and motherboard now or am i wrong with my...

Hi there! I'm currently thinking if i should upgrade or not. I'm on a DDR3 platform, but as DDR5 is on the market, i don't know if it's still worth to go on the DDR4 platform. Currently my build is as follow : - I7 4770k OC @4.2Ghz - Noctua NH-D15 for the cooling - G Skill Ares 8Go x 4 @...

So, I'm looking to upgrade my faithful old GTX1060, yeah - I know...I have a limited budget of £500 but I need to upgrade the CPU as well. I'm on an MSI B450 MB (gaming pro carbon AC) which I don't need to replace as yet and I have a seasonic Focus+ Gold 650w PS. I want to get a Ryzen 5600X (MB...

Thoughts on the following upgrade very welcome. This forum has never let me down. Current setup Gigabyte Aorus GA-AX370-Gaming K7 AMD X370 DDR4 ATX Motherboard AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 1700X 3.80GHz Dark Rock Pro 3 CPU Cooler Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 Samsung 960 EVO Polaris...

Hello, to all of you. I'm looking for advice about an upgrade of my old gaming rig. Budget around £500-£800, could push up to £1000, but pref not to. Current rig: CPU - i5 6600K LGA1151 CPU cooler - NZXT kraken X61 MB - asus maximus gene VIII z170 GPU - MSI Suprime RTX 3070 (recent purchase)...

Hi, I want to upgrade my PC however i don't know where to start, i would assume new graphics card....but have bottle necked old PCs that way. Case NZXT S340 MID TOWER GAMING CASE (BLACK/BLUE) Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor i7-8700k (3.7GHz) 12MB Cache Motherboard ASUS®...

Hello, I currently run a 3700X + 5700xt on an MSI x570-A pro, gaming and doing office work at 4K120Hz. I had planned to get a 5800x3d and a 7900xt next month, and to put my old CPU and GPU in my son's B350 computer, which is currently running a 2400g on integrated graphics. However, after a day...

Hi there, I am very close to pulling the trigger on a big upgrade. I feel that my PC no longer does what I'd want it to do and so I am really feeling the upgrade itch. I'm taking advantage of some deals on AMD chips and have come up with the below. I'd be really grateful if people could give it...

In a nutshell, I want to upgrade my gaming PC so I will be able to run microsoft flight simulator on ultra settings in the 50-60fps range @1080p (its not the only game I play but it's what I play most, the way I see it if this new PC can run MSFS 2020 easily on ultra it can run all my other...

Hi, I'm looking to upgrade my PC to the Ryzen 7 5800x, my budget is around £700-800 as i know that i need a new motherboard, cpu cooler and memory with the new processor. I do a lot of video editing in premiere pro and after effects and would like to game from time to time on it. The system I...

Hi, I'm looking to upgrade my PC, I mostly use it for 3D modelling and texturing, Photoshop and occasional not too demanding gaming. I'm looking to get a touchscreen tablet too which involves a GPU with 2 HDMI ports as my current monitor already uses one of them. It's dated from 2014 and am...

Hello, I had my gaming pc for quite a while now, I think I got mine back in 2014 and till this day I never did any sort of upgrade. Back then it was a very expensive and pretty high end pc i think. My pc always handled the newest games pretty good, so I saw no problem. I used to game a lot but...

Hi all, I built a fairly budget desktop about 4 years ago that I am now looking to upgrade. My current specs are CPU: Ryzen 1600X Cooler: CM Masterliquid Lite 120 Mobo: ASrock AB350M Pro 4 MATX RAM: 16GB Corsair vengeance PC4-24000 (3000) GFX: MSI RX 5700 Mech Case: Fractal Define mini C PSU...

I want to get a 32"144 hz 1440p monitor but I think my system isn't going to be able to fully use it. My system is: i5-4690k @3.5ghz 16GB ram r9 280 3GB If I upgrade the GFX would this solve my problem? Was looking at 1660s but didn't want to buy if you thought there was another bottleneck

Hi I have a 12 year old PC built with components from OC which is still working great. Would anyone know what type of graphics card would still fit and how high a spec could I go that would be compatible with the old components and not bottleneck the CPU? Also what type of memory can be fitted...