Looking to upgrade pc to play games comfortably

SilentShinobi

SilentShinobi

SilentShinobi

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I currently have a Lenovo Leigon tower y520 with the general specs being:

Processor Name:Intel Core i5-7400
Graphics Card:Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3gb
upgraded the ram to 16gb from 8gb

And i was wondering whether you know what the best ways i can upgrade the pc with a budget of 1k give or take. I heard to get a 1080 ti or 2070 superGPU is a good start but I dont quite know whether i would be required to upgrade the CPU to a i7. Also if other parts need upgrading like the motherboard or PSU to accompany this.

Kind Regards

SilentShinobi
 
Terrorfirmer said:
It really depends on the games you want to play. The i5 is very dated and in some newer games it doesn't give a very good experience. (eg Assassins Creed, Battlefield 5)

Equally, plenty of games are not that fussy about CPU and you would gain massive benefits from upgrading the graphics alone (eg COD Modern Warfare, Apex Legends).

If you explain what your budget is and what games you want to play?
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Well you pretty much named the pool of games i currently play. Battlefield runs fine. Cod runs okay on low or disabled but cannot have other things opened, even discord. Granted the upgraded ram a week ago allowed COD to be playable. Apex runs on mid to low. AC origins and od run mid with frame drops/ freezes once i go to an actual area. Budget is £1000 with like 200 room above if need be.
Future games like cyberpunk, the new watchdogs etc.
 
Terrorfirmer said:
Keep in mind what is killing you right now in most games is the 3GB vram of the 1060.

You said Apex runs on mid-low for example - a 1060 will actually run the game at high-ultra perfectly fine once you set textures to low.

Same for other games. Low texture is usually around 2GB, medium can be 4GB in a lot of games, will cause serious issues on a 3GB 1060.
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YEP X) found out the hard way thats why i thought just buying a 2070 super with higher gb might be the play but I saw that bottlenecking was a thing and PSU needs to match. Also is the Ryzen series a good cpu, everywhere i see its a better multi purpose for cheaper, but at thesame time I hear it overheats n stuff.
 
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