Upgrade advice

DrewBrees · 31 Mar 2018 at 07:54

Hello all,
Long story short, my PC is getting a bit long in the tooth and can only play Kingdom Come on Medium and Far Cry 5 on High.

I currently have a Sandybridge 2600k, a GTX 980 and 16 GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM. 1080p is good enough for me, so I'll keep my monitor and drives.

Could I just slap a GTX 1060 in or would I need to upgrade my CPU as well?

I could afford to spend maybe £2000 but I'd rather not if I can help it.

Thanks guys.

tamzzy · 31 Mar 2018 at 08:48

980 is slightly faster than a 1060. So pointless sidegrade.

If you want better performance, you'll be looking at a full upgrade.

DrewBrees · 31 Mar 2018 at 09:21

Thanks, I thought the 1060 was the best card for 1080p.

tamzzy · 31 Mar 2018 at 09:25

DrewBrees said:
best card

Best new card.

DarkHorizon472 · 31 Mar 2018 at 09:49

Is your 2600k overclocked ?

If not this would give you a good performance boost being careful of power and temps. You could then see how you get on.

GWANGY · 31 Mar 2018 at 14:11

You should see if the blockage is gfx or CPU, if its gfx then 1080 + if its cpu , then complete upgrade.
Check whether your Cpu is being maxed out but looking at kingdom come you have better specs than needed.
if you want better graphics detail you need to upgrade your card.
Not sure an overclock of the cpu will give you much 5-10%? but overclock your gfx card may be better ...

orbitalwalsh · 31 Mar 2018 at 14:19

Kingdom come... Should get a little better with time

DarkHorizon472 · 31 Mar 2018 at 14:46

GWANGY said:
You should see if the blockage is gfx or CPU, if its gfx then 1080 + if its cpu , then complete upgrade.
Check whether your Cpu is being maxed out but looking at kingdom come you have better specs than needed.
if you want better graphics detail you need to upgrade your card.
Not sure an overclock of the cpu will give you much 5-10%? but overclock your gfx card may be better ...

It’s base clock is 3.4ghz and generally overclocks to around 4.5ghz which is a 33% improvement. If CPU limited this will make a noticeable difference and it is 4c / 8t which helps.

DrewBrees · 31 Mar 2018 at 18:59

Thanks guys, I'm looking at the Skylake CPU's and they don't seem like much of an upgrade from what I have now. For £200-300 plus the cost of a new motherboard is it worth it?

orbitalwalsh · 31 Mar 2018 at 19:22

DrewBrees said:
Thanks guys, I'm looking at the Skylake CPU's and they don't seem like much of an upgrade from what I have now. For £200-300 plus the cost of a new motherboard is it worth it?

Coffeelake or nothing . Intel's big push is to get 1st/2nd gen owners onto onto coffeelake

I7 K second for your chipset hand and gtx 1070 if you want to beef out everything at 1080p

DrewBrees · 1 Apr 2018 at 08:27

orbitalwalsh said:
Coffeelake or nothing . Intel's big push is to get 1st/2nd gen owners onto onto coffeelake

I7 K second for your chipset hand and gtx 1070 if you want to beef out everything at 1080p

Thanks, I think I'll go for that. Can I use any of the LGA 1151 motherboards with the Coffeelake?

orbitalwalsh · 1 Apr 2018 at 09:04

DrewBrees said:
Thanks, I think I'll go for that. Can I use any of the LGA 1151 motherboards with the Coffeelake?

Nope, and that's why vendors chuck in a lot of R&D with Intel as it makes them money doing new boards for every 2 gens of CPUs .

Only upgrade if your 100% sure CPU is the limiting factor . Newer games will take more use of more threads such as BF1 and seems FC5 likes core count over thread count .

Normally the most gains you'll always see is from GPU but prob worth waiting for next gen around Q3

See how ryzen+ launch goes and if it affects any pricing