Do my CPU, Memory and/or Motherboard limit my gaming performance.

petteri.muola

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Hey!

I have older Motherboard, memory and CPU, which I think are working fine, no crash/stability issues. But are they limiting my overall performance by a meaningful amount? Primarily Gaming performance needed, games like PUBG, Killing floor 2, Heroes of the Storm.

My setup:
MoBo: ASUSTEK P8Z68-V Rev 1.xx, Bios 0606
CPU: i7-2600 3,40 GHz, Sandy bridge, Family6, Model 2A, Stepping7
Memory: Kingston 9905403-440.A00LF; 4GB DDR3 SDRAM PC3-12800; clk:800.0MHz
Drive:Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

I have tried to figure it out with Passmark Performance test 9.0, it gives 67% percentile for Memory, 72% for CPU. Overall system percentile is 85%, and Video card 93%.

So they aren't as good as my new video card and disc (obviously), but do they meaningfully reduce gaming performance? I'm not actually short of money, but I wanna make a smart decicion, plz help :)
 
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Your CPU is an i7 2600, so it'll be good for years. Your RAM is a bit low, at 4GB. You should get an extra 4GB stick. If you have the extra cash, get a 16GB kit. 8GB is fine for gaming currently.

HagridPotterz

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Your CPU is an i7 2600, so it'll be good for years. Your RAM is a bit low, at 4GB. You should get an extra 4GB stick. If you have the extra cash, get a 16GB kit. 8GB is fine for gaming currently.
 
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