Upgrade advice, bundle?

kinger8938

kinger8938

kinger8938

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Hi there! Recently upgraded from a 970 to a 1070 and its grea though i feel the rest of my system may be coming to the end of being relevent.

I have an i5 2500k at 4.5 ghz. This is under 100% load in bf1
8 gb ram not sure what brand but ddr3
Motherboard is asrock z68 extreme 4 gen 3 or something like that

Was toying with just upgrading ram but mobo only supports ddr3 so maybe in the long run that would be a wasted effort if i then upgrade the mobo to ddr4 down the line?

Main use for pc is gaming, would i need a new psu? I imagine if its fine now it should still be, xfx 650w if i recall.

Maybe a new case too

What should i be looking to spend. What is todays version of the 2500k? That had some staying power i must say
 
I'm in the same boat.

Upgraded to a 1070 and feel the rest of my system is a bit mismatched with the gpu now.

I'm seriously considering a 6700k and 16gb of ddr4 along with a quality motherboard.

Maybe next month as I have a few car bills this month.
 
Yea im not too sure, looking things up places claim the 6600k isnt far off the 2500k and if ut aint broke dont fix it. Not sure, i have the itch so need to be pointed in the right direction :D
 
Unless you really have money to spend I think most will suggest holding off until the next batch of CPUs are released. Another 8gb of ram wouldnt hurt.

As for BF1. Ive been reading that its pretty normal for i5s and lower to hit high CPU usage.
 
LewisRaz said:
Unless you really have money to spend I think most will suggest holding off until the next batch of CPUs are released. Another 8gb of ram wouldnt hurt.

As for BF1. Ive been reading that its pretty normal for i5s and lower to hit high CPU usage.
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Was thinking this may be the case then! Not a clue about ram, i believe my board only supports ddr3, would take suggestions in that field too if any one can help
 
It's hard to tell, maybe if your CPU wasn't at full load there could be a case for upgrading the RAM.


You could try overclocking the CPU and if you don't get a notable improvement then it's likely not your bottleneck.
 
Dogoid said:
It's hard to tell, maybe if your CPU wasn't at full load there could be a case for upgrading the RAM.


You could try overclocking the CPU and if you don't get a notable improvement then it's likely not your bottleneck.
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My cpu is currently overclocked to 4.5, gets 100% load on bf1 but a fair few players are reporting this! Either way ram is on route as a few games seem to be recommending 16gb lately and during play my ram usages is about 7gb:O so should help a bit hopefully
 
Well the improvement from the article is based on bandwidth , speed of the Ram being the thing that has the improvements, so i hope you got faster RAM.

Anyway , RAM is pretty cheap to experiment on , rather than getting a new CPU and you discover no performance gain.
 
Appreciate the advice cheers. Tbh later on im probably going to go for a full system except the card i have just purchased so for now i can only use ddr3 so just purchased more of the same ram i have to tide me over, should be an improvement either way until i do the lot
 
Having problems! Installed the ram and the pc trys to fire up 3 times, then eventually does and comes up wjtha failed to boot screen. It then does go on to load windows and it seems to recognise the ram albeit at 1333hz as opposed to 1600hz

Then if i turn the pc off it does the same again, any times? Xmp profile is set and earlier showed my original sticks as 1600mhz
 
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