When to upgrade?

marcg868 · 11 May 2019 at 20:01

Currently Running a I5 7600k oc to 4.8
16gb Ram
8gb Rx480
Now I'm only using it for 1080p mostly on high settings and Medium.
However I'm wondering should I do a quick upgrade now £400 budget or replace the whole lot next?
I may go to 1440p next year but happy currently.
I'm mainly playing older games from last gen and this gen.
But I want to get rid of my Ps4 pro.

EsaT · 11 May 2019 at 21:50

No sense to upgrade CPU in current situation with Intel's rape and robbery prices and old Ryzens beign made on clock speed handicapping manufacturing process originally from Samsung.
In month situation can be entirely different.

marcg868 · 11 May 2019 at 23:15

So stick with what I've got for now?I'll probably just replace the whole lot with Ryzen 2 next year.

EsaT · 12 May 2019 at 09:42

Zen2's release should be in Computex, so you don't have to wait to next year for situation to improve.

With just measly four threads that Intel can certainly suffer from hiccups in newer more multithreaded games unless you minimize amount of background stuff.
Something ancient like CSGO again doesn't need many cores.