Should this be upgraded?

Foxcatcher

Foxcatcher

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Hello Everyone

Three years ago one of the kind members of the forum helped me spec this PC for my autistic sons 18th birthday I then purchased it from Overclockers. He is 21 in December and he is asking me should it be updated. Any advice would be much appreciated as I am not good with computers. My son loves his pc and uses it every day for gaming .
Thank you in advance for your help.


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It is pretty good, should play any current game. No need to change it unless he is playing at 1440p Ultrawide, or 4K or something like that.
 
21st birthday could get him a 4080 super anything from 50% to100% performance increase in FPS or you may be lucky with the release of Nvidias 5000 series.

All down to how much you want to spend.

 
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Foxcatcher said:
Hello Everyone

Three years ago one of the kind members of the forum helped me spec this PC for my autistic sons 18th birthday I then purchased it from Overclockers. He is 21 in December and he is asking me should it be updated. Any advice would be much appreciated as I am not good with computers. My son loves his pc and uses it every day for gaming .
Thank you in advance for your help.


OcUK Gaming Sabre - Intel 12th Gen i5, RTX 3070Ti Gaming PC Corsair RMx Series RM850x 80 PLUS Gold Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
Lian-Li PC-O11 Dynamic Midi-Tower - White Window
Lian-Li Strimer Plus Addressable RGB 24 Pin Motherboard Cable
Lian-Li Strimer Plus Addressable RGB 8Pin PCIe VGA Cable
Intel Core i5-12600K 3.70GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor -
OEM
Lian-Li UNI AL120 Addressable RGB White 120mm Fan Triple Pack with
Controller
*Build Stock* MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Ventus 3X LHR 8GB GDDR6X
Graphics Card
WD Black SN850 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive
(WDS100T1X0E)
WD Blue SN550 2TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive
(WDS200T2B0C)
Corsair Hydro Series iCUE H150i ELITE LCD Display Performance Liquid
CPU Cooler - 360mm
MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk WIFI DDR4 - Intel Z690 DDR4 ATX Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO Black 32GB (2x16GB) 3600MHz AMD Ryzen
Tuned DDR4 Memory Dual Kit
**Special Offer** Bullguard Internet Security - Anti-Virus and Security - 1 Year
3 PC
Microsoft Windows 11 Home 64-Bit DVD - OEM (KW9-00632)
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Hello again. Glad your son still enjoying gaming. you need to check which games your sons playing regularly, and also is he gaming 1440p still?
 
A 4070S for £500-550 or 4070tiS / 7900XT if you get for £650 or less would be the only worthwhile upgrade, new GPUs launching end of this year / early next so you could wait for those before doing anything.
 
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