Time for an upgrade? i5 4670K

Timmeh82

Timmeh82

Timmeh82

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Hi everyone,

I think it's time for an upgrade! I've had this rig for quite a while now and it's served me well. Only thing that's been upgraded has been the GFX card - and even that feels a little old now!

Current specs:

CPU: Intel Core i5 4670K Haswell socket running @ 4.2Ghz OC'd
Mobo: MSI Z87-G43 Gaming Motherboard
RAM: Patriot Viper 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC 6144MB
PSU: Coolermaster 750w PSU
O/S HDD: TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD
Storage HDD: Seagate 2TB BarraCuda

Being overclocked my processor is not actually that bad, but I feel like it's the bottleneck in the system.

I will be using the computer for gaming, but also music production so my board would need to be full ATX to allow for PCI soundcard.

I don't really have much to spend, but was wondering if I could get a good upgrade by going to a 3700x and compatible board / ram for about £500 and then keep my other components. Still gaming at 1080p so I guess the 1060 will do for now? Most of my games seem to kill the CPU so I'm guessing that would be my best upgrade for now - Games like Red Dead Redemption seem to like more than 4 cores!

What are your thoughts? Is this a worthwhile upgrade, and what would you recommend for £500 or less?

Thanks
 
Yes I'd say so. I have the same cpu situation and need to upgrade. I'm going to go for the 3600 but the 3700x is obviously a few more steps up the ladder.

Go for a decent b450 motherboard, the MSI tomahawk gets great reviews and has good vrm capacity incase you wanna put in a 3950x or the likes in the future.

Ram is pretty cheap at the moment. 16gb is about £60 at the moment.

Grab an m.2 HDD at the same time for a boot drive and you'll be at about £500 spend for a decent upgrade.

You'll probably find the GPU will then need upgrading sooner rather than later though.
 
Timmeh82 said:
What are your thoughts? Is this a worthwhile upgrade, and what would you recommend for £500 or less?
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Honestly, I'd just clean up the whole system and sell it for ~£400-500, then build a whole new system with faster everything.

If you really like your current case, and want to add value to the old system, buy a cheap flashy RGB case and transfer the guts then sell it. FB and Gumtree etc. Will get it shift fast. :)
 
Journey said:
Honestly, I'd just clean up the whole system and sell it for ~£400-500, then build a whole new system with faster everything.

If you really like your current case, and want to add value to the old system, buy a cheap flashy RGB case and transfer the guts then sell it. FB and Gumtree etc. Will get it shift fast. :)
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I'd agree with this. The issue with the old 4c/4t cpus is they're showing their age and you're not the first to see issues. a lot of cod players have seen the older cpus bottleneck and lock the system at 100% CPU usage. I think these old units are on their way out now.

I'd go with something like this:

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Thanks guys, your recommendations all make a lot of sense, especially selling my current system to fund the new one.

Would I be better upgrading to a 3600? I've read there isn't much difference at the moment when comparing the 3600 to the 3700x in games, but that may change in a couple of years. This might allow me to also upgrade the gfx card at the same time then another cpu upgrade in a few years if needs be!
 
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