Complete system upgrade or just GPU, cooling/case, RAM and SSD?

Browney5000 · Apr 13, 2017

I am looking to upgrade my PC and was wondering if i should bother to upgrade everything or just my GPU. I have a 3 year old PC with an i5 4670k, Asus Z87k Mobo, 8GB RAM, terrible laptop harddrive and SLI 770's but i was thinking of swapping the GPU's for a 1070.

I know the 4670k is beefy enough for the 1070 but i have had it stock cooled since the build first came together and i've used this PC extensively so i was wondering wether i should completely upgrade or just switch out the GPU's, grab an SSD and another stick of RAM and perhaps upgrade the cooling somewhat as it is struggling to play most modern games now at 60FPS on medium. BF1 barely gets 30-40 FPS on medium/low and i am a graphics whore.

Thanks in advance!

Browney5000 · Apr 13, 2017

Just realised i didn't outline the main point for this question...
I am worried that the overused and neglected CPU will have an effect on the overall performance of the PC

13thmonkey · Apr 13, 2017

get a new cooler, OC, 16GB of ram, and then see where you are, you may find that your 8GB is causing issues.

boosted1g · Apr 13, 2017

BF1 is a very CPU intensive game and you wont see much more FPS out of a new kabylake i5, only an i7 would show worthwhile gains.

Running games from laptop hard drive is really your biggest bottleneck at the moment, anything that has to constantly load user maps is going to suffer.

I would not yet buy the ram, get things that can transfer over to new platform. So my advice is to get GPU, SSD, and Cooler and see how it does.

tlalotoani · Apr 13, 2017

That i5 is still good enough, you can use the stock cooler if you don´t overclock, get that 1070 and SSD and start from there

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