Comments on this upgrade please.

( |-| |2 ][ $ · 29 Jul 2017 at 13:33

The below is for my Dad. He's been suffering playing BF4 on an overclocked Core2Duo and Radeon HD5670 for too long now.

I'm long out of touch with what's good and what's not but will be fine building it for him.
The HDD is just for game storage, he has an SDD to run windows.

Really I'm just asking if there's anything that stands out as wrong, too expensive or where he can get a lot more for just a little extra. etc.

Many thanks.

Brizzles · 29 Jul 2017 at 14:07

£20 more but much better graphics card, and more cores for the future.

( |-| |2 ][ $ · 29 Jul 2017 at 14:19

OK thanks.

I had already considered that card as it was showing as popular so will go with that one.
Do you think the AMD CPU is a at similar performance level to the Intel I chose or just that for games the money is best spent on the graphics card?
I was under the impression (with little experience) that more cores doesn't help with gaming? Should I consider an I5 then or would you stand by the Ryzen as the best match?

TallPaul1878 · 29 Jul 2017 at 18:54

( |-| |2 ][ $ said:
OK thanks.

I had already considered that card as it was showing as popular so will go with that one.
Do you think the AMD CPU is a at similar performance level to the Intel I chose or just that for games the money is best spent on the graphics card?
I was under the impression (with little experience) that more cores doesn't help with gaming? Should I consider an I5 then or would you stand by the Ryzen as the best match?

The Ryzen R5 line has made Intel's i5 range completely redundant. It is tit for tat in gaming but in all other aspects the AMD chips destroys the Intel chip.

As games become more and more multi threaded the R5 will pull even further away from the i5.

For games it really is all down to the graphics card. Switching an expensive Intel i7 to a cheaper AMD R5 might mean going from 140 to 120 frames per second, but putting that money back into a graphics card will put you way further in front.

You will be a damn sight better off with an AMD R5 and GTX 1070 compared to Intel i7 and a GTX 1060.