CPU upgrade worth it?

hinesy32 · 6 Apr 2018 at 11:32

Hi all,

First post for me. Been gaming on racing sims for a couple of years now (PC/PC2/AC/Dirt Rally) and currently questioning my current set-up:

i5-4590 @ 3.3GHz, Haswell 1150 LGA
Gigabite H81M-S2H motherboard
GTX1060 3gb
8gb RAM DDR3
22" IPS monitor

I can run most of the games on high settings (average, some ultra, some lower). I understand that I have an old gen processor. What would be the best upgrade here? My GPU is only 6 months old, have the PC for around 3 years now. I'd like to run a bigger monitor,, maybe 1440p, but stay single screen.

Cheers
Colin

hinesy32 · 6 Apr 2018 at 11:41

Not sure on budget really, perhaps £300-400 max. Excuse my ignorance, what is taskmanager?

hinesy32 · 6 Apr 2018 at 11:55

Ah, just what I feared, that I'd need to upgrade the lot. A few more months saving is in order then! At least I'm getting decent performance at 1080p with what I have at the moment.

hinesy32 · 6 Apr 2018 at 13:32

Thanks for the replies. I'll run a few games this afternoon with task manager. I assume I can just leave it running in the background at check it out afterwards?

hinesy32 · 6 Apr 2018 at 16:03

So I ran task manager on PC2. CPU sits at around 65-70%, GPU at around 70-75% although it spikes to 90%+ when I watch the replays of races. RAM wise, around 6gb typically.