Help with upgrade advice

Johnmcbob · 14 Nov 2017 at 16:13

Current Basic spec is I7 2600 3.4GHz / XFX PRO 850

Asus P8H61-M LE/USB3 / 2gb Nvidia 560 TI Twin Frozr ii

8gb Corsair XMS3 / Corsair 600T White

Basically I built the pc in 2011 iirc so is due an upgrade, still works fine just doesn't play modern stuff on any decent settings

I have been looking into the ryzen stuff quite a bit and also looking at a rx 580 as well coupled with some better ram

My power supply,
hard drives, case are all sound so nothing wrong with them

I use my 55 inch 4k tv for gaming as I set the PC up in the living room now

Would the ryzen 5/7 with the rx 580 be a good upgrade? They seem really good spec for the price, I only game a couple of times a week, so occasional photoshop so doesn't need to be anything crazy, just enough to run the newer games on higher settings etc

Any advice would be great

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 14 Nov 2017 at 16:33

I would try upgrading the graphics card first,as I suspect you are more GPU limited in many games.

orbitalwalsh · 15 Nov 2017 at 20:55

You would see an increase with i7 8700k .. but at the moment, you'll see that performance at a high cost ! Coffeelake is aimed at shifting over 1st/2nd gens owners as they'll the most performance increase . But your talking some heavy cash ! £700+ ...

As above , slap in a GPU first and have a look at the performance your getting in your games say to a system with the same card on a new Chip such as coffeelake/Ryzen .
Check to see how your CPU and GPU usage is with the new GPU , should indicate easily if you do need to refresh your system .

For a Ryzen 1600+8GB ram plus Mobo your looking £439 odd , which is a damn site cheaper then Intel's

Johnmcbob · 16 Nov 2017 at 15:10

Cheers for the advice, gonna have a look about for deals on a graphics card and try that first

orbitalwalsh · 16 Nov 2017 at 15:48

Johnmcbob said:
Cheers for the advice, gonna have a look about for deals on a graphics card and try that first

Black Friday soon... Last year was naff , but things have improved slightly currency wise

Quartz · 16 Nov 2017 at 16:39

If you want to game at 4K, get yourself a GTX 1080 or 1080 Ti. Then a SSD.

Johnmcbob · 16 Nov 2017 at 17:52

Yeah gonna have a look at black Friday deals

I have an ssd already so that's fine, just a 1080 is well out of my budget, I don't game enough to justify that kinda cost on a card

Quartz · 16 Nov 2017 at 18:26

Don't worry. You'll still be able to game at 4K with a GTX 1060, but you'll have to settle for medium details.

orbitalwalsh · 16 Nov 2017 at 22:31

Quartz said:
Don't worry. You'll still be able to game at 4K with a GTX 1060, but you'll have to settle for medium details.

?? I have that setting with a 1080 gtx