So, How exactly do you upgrade to another cpu?

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geofelt
Your I5-4460 has 4 threads and a passmark rating of 6659 with a single thread rating of 1946.
Your strongest upgrade would be a 8 thread I7-4790K with a rating of 11197 and a single thread rating of 2530.
You will not be able to overclock with a H87 motherboard.
Likely you will need a better than stock cooler too.

There really is nothing significantly stronger our there short of a well binned I7-7700K with a good overclock.
That will also need a Z270 motherboard and DDR4 ram.

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Corwin65

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You cannot change the socket on a motherboard.

Look at the link you provided and you will see the list of CPU's you can upgrade to.

Then it's just a matter of replacing the old one with the new one, applying new thermal paste to the heatsink, and booting up.
 
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I just wanted to know, if you could choose whatever you could, if you change the socket and fan.

So, you're telling me that's nut how it works? and that I'm wrong is that right?
I just want to get a confirmation.
 
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Corwin65

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Yes, that is not how it works.
 
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YoAndy

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You cannot change the socket, the socket is the big square steel peace that supports the CPU, is welded to the center of the motherboard.
 
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actually, I will also need to change the topic here.

I Bought a new graphics card, called Zotac gtx 1060 3gb mini with the power supply corsair 550vs, I shoved both in and booted up succ|essfully and uninstalled Amd drivers and installed the latest nvidia ones, yet I still Get some when going too fast in an open-world game like gta5, ass assasin's creed syndicate and watch dogs 2.
So, I thought that the cpu was bottlenecking the gpu and then I went to google to see if that's true.

But I saw many people playing the games fine, and without any lag spikes even on youtube a guy uploaded the same build that I have without getting 1 lag spike during the test.

So I tried turning the graphics and resolution down and I still get around 40 and 50 fps in open world games. on my old shitty graphics card I got around 80fps all time.

here's how Bad the spikes are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrDFL7qVnB8 .
 
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geofelt

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Your pc has a H87 chipset.
That means you likely can replace the processor with any lga1150 processor.
Check the pc specs for supported processors.
There may be bios updates necessary for some.
If the new cpu is supported, you simply replace your current one with it and boot to windows.
You will have to clean off the thermal paste and reinstall whatever cooler you have.
 
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upgrading that wouldn't be much of an upgrade would it?

Wouldn't buying a new motherboard be a better solution?
 
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Like I said before that motherboard is really cheap and upgrading that old platform would be a waste of money. You are better of with a new processor and a new board.
 
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actually, I will also need to change the topic here.

I Bought a new graphics card, called Zotac gtx 1060 3gb mini with the power supply corsair 550vs, I shoved both in and booted up succ|essfully and uninstalled Amd drivers and installed the latest nvidia ones, yet I still Get some when going too fast in an open-world game like gta5, ass assasin's creed syndicate and watch dogs 2.
So, I thought that the cpu was bottlenecking the gpu and then I went to google to see if that's true.

But I saw many people playing the games fine, and without any lag spikes even on youtube a guy uploaded the same build that I have without getting 1 lag spike during the test.

So I tried turning the graphics and resolution down and I still get around 40 and 50 fps in open world games. on my old shitty graphics card I got around 80fps all time.

here's how Bad the spikes are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrDFL7qVnB8 .

what about this?
 
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geofelt

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If you turned down the graphics and resolution, and still did not get an increase in fps, it indicates that your cpu is the limiter.
Most likely, it is the single thread performance.
What is your current cpu?
A $140 I3-4170 is a very strong processor for most games
 
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I think mine is far better than that, it's an i5 4460 that costs around 200€

Here's my prebuilt before the upgrade: https://support.hp.com/de-de/document/c04626068
 
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Your I5-4460 has 4 threads and a passmark rating of 6659 with a single thread rating of 1946.
Your strongest upgrade would be a 8 thread I7-4790K with a rating of 11197 and a single thread rating of 2530.
You will not be able to overclock with a H87 motherboard.
Likely you will need a better than stock cooler too.

There really is nothing significantly stronger our there short of a well binned I7-7700K with a good overclock.
That will also need a Z270 motherboard and DDR4 ram.

 
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