Time to upgrade?

Vanya Hargreeves · 8 Jun 2021 at 01:10

So my birthday coming up and I the fabled question. Of what doubt for my birthday. My mind got think would I like a new PC.

Granted a new one won't have GPU as my current one is good.

It more of a CPU and motherboard. As currently, I have an i7 6700k 4.2gh with 16 Gb ram and 2060 RTX GPU.

It five years old and want to get some thoughts on matter. As it was a prebuilt and I made a few upgrades like the fans the GPU and PSU.

Vanya Hargreeves · 8 Jun 2021 at 10:21

Dg834man said:
Budget would be helpful

Your right sorry I say in the region of £500 if that possible?

Vanya Hargreeves · 8 Jun 2021 at 10:44

How do find my speed of my ram and I thought of keeping it intel i7 like an the 9k ball park. I have thought about the ssd as my os is on an ssd. Yet can one use a file coping program to copy games over?

mickyflinn said:
What speed ram do you have and motherboard ?

The 6700k is still not a bad cpu but moving to a 6 core cpu mite be a beneficial upgrade.

Do you have your games on a ssd?

Vanya Hargreeves · 8 Jun 2021 at 14:34

Digital X said:
When they mention "9k ballpark" I believe they mean they want to spend around £9000.

Correct me if I wrong but that's the way I've understood "ballpark" as a figure.

Wasn't there a bit of controversy surrounding CCleaner? Or is it decent now?

I mean I look at the i9 chipset. Sorry for using the wrong vernacular.

C cleaner I hear still it iffy but that what know.

Vanya Hargreeves · 8 Jun 2021 at 16:09

I hope this give better info

Vanya Hargreeves · 8 Jun 2021 at 16:53

Quartz said:
An upgrade to an 11400F CPU + B560 m/b + 16 GB DDR4-3600 would give you a significant boost in games and cost around £350, but we're at the end of the DDR4 era. It's all change later this year / early next year, so you're better off leaving a complete upgrade until then. Hopefully the GPU shortages will be oer by then too.

I look into that. Thanks

Danny75 said:
Need an SSD for sure.

Which monitor do you have?

Monitor wise AOC 24 inch 144hz 1ms response

Vanya Hargreeves · 8 Jun 2021 at 17:15

Danny75 said:
If you tend to play games that benefit from high fps, keep it. If you don't care so much about that and would prefer nicer images then a 27" 1440p IPS would be a nice upgrade.

An SSD cannot be seen in that HWiNFO pic. Would you happen to know which SSD it is? If you go to Device Manager > Disk drives, it might be listed there.

Ideally you'd wait for the new DDR5 platforms to arrive before upgrading CPU/mobo/memory. So before buying that, look into anything else you might need and carry through well into the future.

With ddr5 I have heard that coming out this later this year ye has you said motherboards ha e yet to catch up.

As for the ssd it a 870 evo by Samsung 1tb that has my os. If did get a another ssd it would by another brand so not confuse the two.

Vanya Hargreeves · 12 Jun 2021 at 13:19

Ivs said:
Yeah, I's say the 2060 is totally fine for now. You'll get plenty of more years out of it.

As for the CPU, I had a 6700k for my first build, it stopped working and I got myself an i5 9600k. Its defo the best CPU around for the money. Its about 15% faster and Ive never needed to overclock yet for 2K 144hz gaming.

When did it stop working for you? so I get a bearing on when to upgrade as it where?