Morning all,
Looking at spending a bit of money on my old-ish rig in order to give it some much needed love!
Currently running with;
AMD-6300
GTX 960 (2GB)
8GB DDR3 669MHz RAM
Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P MOBO
I have a decent PSU and a nice case, which have been updated more recently as well as a Samsung SSD so no interest currently in upgrading those.
Most games I play run fine at low-mid settings however looking at possibly streaming alongside playing games and it just cannot handle this and also I would like to take advantage of the 1440p monitor I have but am not currently using to it's potential due to the drawbacks.
Out of the aforementioned, what is holding me back primarily? Is it the CPU as I suspect?
I am debating upgrading the GPU for Christmas anyway, possibly a 1070 if I can justify it. If I had a budget of £350-400, could I get a decent return on the other 3 mentioned, or would I be pushing my luck?
How much difference will I see between a nice i5 (4690k) and an i7 especially considering newer gaming releases.
Thanks in advance for any help,
P
Looking at spending a bit of money on my old-ish rig in order to give it some much needed love!
Currently running with;
AMD-6300
GTX 960 (2GB)
8GB DDR3 669MHz RAM
Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P MOBO
I have a decent PSU and a nice case, which have been updated more recently as well as a Samsung SSD so no interest currently in upgrading those.
Most games I play run fine at low-mid settings however looking at possibly streaming alongside playing games and it just cannot handle this and also I would like to take advantage of the 1440p monitor I have but am not currently using to it's potential due to the drawbacks.
Out of the aforementioned, what is holding me back primarily? Is it the CPU as I suspect?
I am debating upgrading the GPU for Christmas anyway, possibly a 1070 if I can justify it. If I had a budget of £350-400, could I get a decent return on the other 3 mentioned, or would I be pushing my luck?
How much difference will I see between a nice i5 (4690k) and an i7 especially considering newer gaming releases.
Thanks in advance for any help,
P